Recently the Wall Street Journal posted a story on how see through packaging boosted retail sales of food items. While this article mainly talked about packaging like chip, snack and power bar films, we have seen the same trend in solid, plastic food packaging as well. The demand for our Clear Hinged Deli containers has…
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Compostable Food Packaging: Harvest Fiber Containers
The need for “greener” food packaging is increasing and will continue to do so according to many reports published recently by market research firms. Whether it’s called biodegradable packaging or compostable packaging, the reports indicate a growth rate of 18% annually over the next 5 years, with the fastest growth opportunity in the food and…
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Why Buy Post Consumer Recycled Products?
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 by consumers. Examples are clear…
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Beyond the Soup and Salad Bar
Have you ever noticed the increasing gourmet options now located in the deli section of your local grocer? How about the fact there are now more and more options in the deli take-out section, beyond meats and cheeses? Your local grocery store is now a gourmet food court. Take-out options have matured. As we all…
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Dinnerware Options are Plentiful
People seem to spend a lot of time talking about take-out hinged containers and other types of food packaging while the not-so-sexy plate and bowl category sits around quietly in the background. I’d like to change that for two main reasons. First, the dinnerware market is far bigger in terms of both units sold and dollar value…
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Food Packaging And Container Advice For Home Based Businesses
So you’ve mastered making your favorite food. Maybe it’s a special cookie, a homemade chili or a one of a kind pasta salad. There’s no denying it’s delicious. All you have to do is get people to try it and the orders will start flooding in. That’s the mindset of many people who have dreamed…
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Compostable Paper Products
As companies push the envelope to find new sustainable materials to utilize (including Genpak), we sometimes forget about upgrading and improving upon the traditional materials already in use. Sometimes huge gains may be made with a little persistence and ingenuity. Sure anybody can find the obvious avenues to decrease an environmental footprint like simply taking…
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The Benefits Of Using Microwave Safe Containers
Are you using microwave safe containers for your restaurant or food business? If your answer is no, you might want to consider these facts: Fact #1: Consumers typically save and reuse them for their own food left-over’s at home. If the food containers are branded with your logo, your customers will be reminded of your…
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Post Consumer Recycled Content: Foam Food Packaging
From time to time companies launch products that have the chance to make a real impact on the way we view things. For the food packaging industry, this is one of those times. Generations is the very first of its kind; foam food service packaging that is produced using 25% post consumer recycled content. What…
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Food Packaging Goes Hollywood
The other evening I was watching a little TV and noticed one of our foam hinged take out containers being used during one of the scenes. I knew it was a Genpak foam hinged container because I’ve worked here long enough to recognize our stuff at a quick glance. Drives my wife nutty when we are…
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