To all who joined us in Las Vegas, September 26th – 29th at the International Baking Industry Exposition 2010 (IBIE), THANK YOU!!! Genpak was extremely delighted to greet you at Booth 2007! To all who could not be there, we missed you!!! Our Oven Ready Trays & Lids (including examples of our custom capabilities), Deli…
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The image to the right encompasses our mission in the sustainable effort and has been designed to appear on our 100% compostable show bag debuting this month! Each new Affordable, Earth-Friendly line is Sustainable (designed to meet current needs without compromising the needs of future generations), using the 3R approach of Reduce (practice of doing…
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Phone Rings… Genpaker – Hello this is Genpak Caller – Hi my name is Jane and my 10 year old son attending our local school that is using your 5 compartment serving trays in their cafeteria. Genpaker – Hey that is fantastic! Caller – Well not so fast. His science teacher has told the class…
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To say we have been as busy as a beaver on the new product front for quality food packaging, would be the understatement of the year. By my count we launched 50 brand new sku’s just since January. That includes two completely new substrates (material used to make our products), three new product lines and one new category which is…
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Every time I tell someone who is not in the food service business, that we are displaying at the NRA show, I have to tell them, no we don’t make rifles, we make plates. NRA stands for National Restaurant Association, and their show is the biggest of its kind. The show, as usual, is in Chicago…
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Over the last couple of days I attended a conference put on by Nature Works, who is a domestic supplier of PLA. PLA (polylactic acid) is an alternative resin source made entirely from corn and is meant to be used in replacement of PET, OPS and other clear petrochemical based resins. This conference came off…
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The Federal Trade Commission defines recycled content materials as those that have been recovered or diverted from the solid waste stream. Recycled content can be broken into two categories. Post consumer and pre-consumer, which may also be referred to as post industrial. Post consumer content, as its name implies, are materials that have been used…
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Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of bad press regarding packaging, especially food service packaging. There have been venomous articles written ranging from packaging filling up landfills to packaging that causes erectile dysfunction (no lie, just saw that one yesterday). Some writings do have valid points, but never really tell the whole story. Take the landfill debate for instance. It is…
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In my travels I find many times food service operators are looking for something that makes them stand out from the crowd. The one area which I have heard many success stories from, is customers that add their company logo to the single use food service items they already purchase from Genpak. We can custom emboss or print on…
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1. Genpak AD Deli containers can be used for almost any application. I once had the maintenance department of a nursing home use our deli containers to store screws, nails and drill bits. We’ve also had businesses use them for plastic worms used for fishing lures. 2. I have a Cuban bakery using our AD04 & AD06…
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