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Print-registered film wrapper brings co-packer new business

As the demand for multipacks of multiflavored aseptic juice boxes continues to grow, this contract packager invests in machinery to keep up with the trend.

SHRINK WRAPPING. Film is applied in register by this single-curtain shrink wrapper/tunnel combination system, whose small footpr
SHRINK WRAPPING. Film is applied in register by this single-curtain shrink wrapper/tunnel combination system, whose small footpr

Among the key drivers behind today’s ongong growth in contract packaging is the continued expansion of club stores and other mass merchandisers. Their impact on packaged goods manufacturers varies depending on product category. But in one category that being juice manufacturing it sometimes brings about a layered arrangement of contract packagers.

At least it does where contract packagers Johanna Foods and Center for Educational Advancement (CEA) are concerned. Both firms are in Flemington NJ. Johanna Foods which has juice brands of its own sometimes does contract packaging for Apple & Eve a large branded juice manufacturer based in Port Washington NJ. But when Apple & Eve receives an order from a mass merchandiser that calls for mixed-flavored juice boxes in a 36-count shrink-wrapped tray Johanna outsources that labor-intensive job of sorting and tray packing to contract packager CEA. Johanna Foods sends pallets of case-packed juice boxes to CEA where workers break down the pallets and cases and then sort the primary packs into the assortments of flavors Apple & Eve’s customer requires.

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