It's More Than the Cost of a Box

Are You Caught in the Vicious Cycle of Packaging Frustration?
When we begin working with companies, they often view their packaging area as a cost center, a necessary evil. They are frustrated because packaging is a significant operating cost, yet one that seemingly contributes little to the bottom line. Adding to their frustration is the fact that base prices for packaging items increase steadily, regardless of whether business conditions are strong generally or within their sector. The final and most serious frustration comes when these companies realize, after attacking their packaging problem with aggressive cost cutting initiatives, they have made little if any long term headway in containing costs.

 

To make matters worse, in many cases these cost reduction efforts involve resorting to inferior products and equipment that have the effect of increasing associated costs, including crucial ones such as labor and product damage. Perhaps worst of all, inferior or unsuitable packaging materials lead to extreme customer dissatisfaction that may go completely unnoticed by company management. More often than not, pressures reach the point where the company more or less drift back to the packaging products they were using to begin with, and the process starts all over again. 

We help companies find the way out of this cycle of packaging frustration. Not only that, we help them discover ways to make packaging a competitive advantage, a value center instead of a cost center. If this sounds incredible, it's only because you haven't worked with a packaging provider whose entire organization is built on achieving that single goal.

 

Our experience - the sales staff averages more than 13 years in the industry - has given us a wealth of real life problem solving to draw from.

 

Our expertise, exemplified by in-house packaging designers, automation specialists, and service technicians, ensures that we are always on the leading edge of packaging innovation.

 

Our versatility and team approach enable us to work arm-in-arm with our customers at all levels of their organization, from shipping and receiving personnel to packaging engineers to C-level executives.

 

Our flexibility means we treat each customer as if it were our only customer, building our support services around their needs rather than fitting them into our "system".

 

Our size, as one of the largest independent packaging providers in the U.S., gives us the ability to support local, regional, and national programs with superior procurement, inventory management, and delivery systems.