Club stores applaud multipack

The San Francisco-based firm installed in its Rochelle, IL, distribution center a Marksman paperboard wrap machine from Riverwood (Atlanta, GA). In place of plastic ring carriers, club stores now receive six- and eight-count multipacks of canned fruits and vegetables overwrapped by paperboard carriers with rich, consumer-grabbing graphics.

Gone are the corrugated trays that used to hold the cans in their ring carriers. “The store no longer has to dispose of that corrugated,” says Susan Chamberlin, packaging purchasing manager at Del Monte.