by Dennis Salazar | Jan 21, 2026 | Culture
I recently saw a sale paper promoting a “natural wood” clothing rack. As a leader is sustainable packaging, this ad caught my attention because isn’t all wood “natural”? Is there a forest full of fake trees out there somewhere that is used to make fake or artificial...
by Dennis Salazar | Nov 5, 2025 | Packaging Design, Ecommerce Packaging
If your current packaging design is more than a few years old, it was probably made at a time when corrugated costs were low and to be frank, the price of your shipping box was of little consequence when your business was growing in leaps and bounds. Today, with...
by Michael Boik | Oct 23, 2025 | Packaging Solutions, Ecommerce Packaging
As the year winds down, we tend to reflect on what we saw in the industry—from old, reliable trends and consistencies, to what’s new and emerging among the many ecommerce companies we work with daily. It’s beneficial to know what’s hot/trendy and try to gauge where...
by Dennis Salazar | Feb 21, 2025 | Sustainable Perspective, Sustainable People, Inside Sustainable Packaging
My “checkered past”. I reluctantly admit it, but I am quickly approaching my 50th year in the packaging industry. What truly makes me cringe is the fact that for the first thirty years, I was almost totally devoted to plastic, flexible packaging. Shrink film, bundling...
by Alan Wright | Nov 26, 2024 | Sustainable Perspective
Everybody enjoys a Thanksgiving turkey, but packaging turkeys … not so much. Below we present to you seven particularly unappetizing packaging products that have come and gone over the years — or have come, stayed, and really need to go. Packaging’s Champion Turkey –...
