by Alan Wright | Oct 8, 2024 | Packaging Suppliers, Packaging Solutions
There are two ways to buy custom corrugated boxes — from a manufacturer or from a broker. Manufacturers are either mills or sheet plants. Mills make the corrugated board (layers of wavy corrugated between layers of flat linerboard) and the boxes all under one roof....
by Alan Wright | Sep 5, 2024 | Packaging Suppliers, Packaging Solutions
Since every third or fourth business you bump into is a packaging company, it’s very tempting to solicit quotes and change vendors. In addition to the endless number of packaging companies, packaging products, and packaging design options, there’s also the very...
by Dennis Salazar | Jul 26, 2024 | Packaging Design, Ecommerce Packaging
When we started our company in 2007 and our blog in 2008, we could not help but notice the great variety of packaging solutions people were touting as the best way to “Go Green” and “Save the Earth”. The idea of reducing and minimizing corrugated board usage made...
by Dennis Salazar | Oct 4, 2019 | Information Center, Sustainable Products
We are so well known for the terrific, custom-printed corrugated shipping containers we design and make, that sometimes we feel we should remind everyone that we are one of the few companies also able to produce paperboard designs, offering a versatile, colorful...
by Dennis Salazar | Jun 5, 2012 | Inside Sustainable Packaging, Salazar News, Sustainable Products
There are times when custom packaging can save you money. The word “custom” has been known to scare the daylights out of people because the assumption is that custom packaging will always cost more, maybe a LOT more, compared to stock packaging. The fact is that many...
