Contract Packaging

10 Questions to Ask When Purchasing Machinery

You can protect your company from getting ‘taken’ by learning about the dealer’s history and key relationships.

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Controls & Machine Components

10 Questions to Ask When Purchasing Machinery (sidebar)

What to consider when redeploying or selling idle machinery

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Contract Packaging

The Benefits of Membership

Looking to expand your contract packaging services?

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

The future is now; we're here to help you

Welcome to the premier issue of Contract Packaging magazine. Not long ago, contract packaging was a cottage industry dominated by “mom-and-pop” facilities that served one or two customers.

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Contract Packaging

What is this thing called Resource Distraction Value?

It’s the real-dollar value–sometimes as large as the direct costs themselves–that a company saves when leveraging a contract packager. The benefits, although seldom tracked, fall directly to the bottom line.

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Contract Packaging

What is this thing called Resource Distraction Value? (sidebar)

Putting a value on the process

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Contract Packaging

What is this thing called Resource Distraction Value? (sidebar)

CP certification metrics in development

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Contract Packaging

The Dawn of Dynamic Contract Packaging Relationships

Horizontal and vertical consolidations within the industry and consolidations among consumer goods companies are creating new opportunities.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

PACKAGING SERVICES EXPO makes its debut

Contract packaging and services is what it's all about come May 10-12 when the inaugural version of Packaging Services Expo 2005 comes to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.

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Flexible packaging

6 Tactics That Make Contract Packaging Work

The right answers to key questions reduce the risk of surprises when contract packaging appears to be the right option

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Contract Packaging

6 Tactics That Make Contract Packaging Work (sidebar)

Report details contract packaging’s future

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Contract Packaging

Making Sense of a Loosely Organized but Growing Industry

A global consumer products company wants to test 100ꯠ units of a new product in regional distribution before deciding whether to roll out the product nationally and invest in the tooling and equipment to take packaging production in-house.

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Contract Packaging

Healthy outlook for plastic packaging

In 2004, the North American market for plastic packaging in healthcare applications was estimated at 2.5 billion lb. By 2009, the figure is projected to top 3.2 billion lb, according to a report from Business Communications Co. Inc.

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