Everything You Want to Know About Sustainable Packaging Next week marks an unusual milestone for Salazar Packaging; our thirteenth year of our Inside Sustainable and Branded Packaging blog. That is where we have helped lead an industry into a greener and better path toward exceptional “packaging...
If you are planning to create a DTC box for your new or existing e-commerce business, you will likely utilize a graphic designer as well as a structural designer to produce a great looking and effective, e-commerce shipping container. Graphic Designers for Shippable Packaging Some of...
How to Reduce the Impact of Corrugated Price Increases In my mind there is no way to justify substantial back-to-back industry price increases. One in December 2020 and now another that is sure to happen within the next 30 to 60 days. We cannot explain it...
Presentation and Protection for Glass Product Packaging If you are a Carly Simon fan, you may recall her Grammy award winning 1977 song titled, “Nobody Does it Better”. Most Boomers like me also remember it is the theme song for the classic James Bond movie, “The...
Design Trend Forecast One of the pleasures of being a leading producer of DTC branded packaging boxes is seeing what is hot and what is not in graphic designs. For example, for a while everyone was using Chevron designs. Later, pastel colors were in demand, so...
This week marks the twelfth anniversary of the launching of this Inside Sustainable Packaging blog on this www.SalazarPackagng.com web site. As our focus expanded, we later added “and branded packaging” to our name but our approach has remained the same – to be totally transparent...
As a child of the 60’s, I could have never imagined the incredible popularity of CBD products and the number of states who have already legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana. Our home state of Illinois will be joining that fast growing recreational list on...
It is a strange new world out there, especially for an old guy like me who has never been much into social media. I may be the last person on earth who is NOT on Facebook and I know FB is now considered old news...
One of the great delights of doing what we do is watching companies launch, grow, and succeed. A few have even become huge success stories: appearing on shows like Shark Tank, Ellen and Stephen Colbert, and business magazines features. A few of those companies have...