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The Benefits of Membership

Looking to expand your contract packaging services?

'We want to help contract packagers prepare for the future rather than react to changes. '
\"We want to help contract packagers prepare for the future rather than react to changes.\"

The Contract Packaging Association is all about promoting the growth and welfare of member firms while extending partnerships between those needing products packaged and companies that provide the necessary packaging services.

Although new products are introduced into the marketplace as fast as they can roll off a high-speed packaging line, companies—large and small—are working hard to increase their packaging efficiencies while keeping costs down.

In many cases, it may not be prudent for a consumer products company to set up a packaging line just to accommodate a short-run product or one that needs to be in the marketplace now. For smaller companies or start-up firms, costs for designing and setting up a packaging line may be prohibitive. Situations like these reinforce the importance of contract packaging companies and how they can help increase a packager’s efficiencies and productivity without breaking the bank.

But the challenge for contract packagers is getting the word out—letting packagers know that they are out there and ready for almost any packaging situation.

One way for contract packaging firms to get noticed is by joining a packaging association. Although quite a few associations are out there, contract packagers are fortunate to have one that specializes in what they’re all about. And that is the Contract Packaging Association.

So, if you are a contract packager, the question begs—what is the Contract Packaging Association and, perhaps most important, what’s in it for my company to become a member?

What is the Contract Packaging Association?

The Contract Packaging Association is a national, not-for-profit trade organization that includes dynamic and growing companies offering contract packaging services.

The Contract Packaging Association was formed in July 1992, specifically for contract packaging firms and those businesses related to them. Subsequently, the Contract Packaging Association has been promoting the growth and welfare of its member firms.

Association members perform all packaging functions, from the simplest to the most complex, and from the glamorous to the hazardous. Member packaging services range from manual and semi-automatic to full-speed, high performance packaging lines. Other member services include design, warehousing, distribution, and other business services.

Foremost, the association has two goals:

• Extending partnerships between companies needing products packaged and those that provide the necessary packaging services.

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