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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Category: Product Spotlight
Food Packaging Is Essential
I’m not exactly sure when some people started to consider food packaging as evil or something that was detrimental to our very fabric of life. But I’ve noticed a few blogs and articles being written that would suggest such a thing. I think many of those bloggers and stone throwers are the types of folks…
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Genpak’s Clear Hinged Deli Containers Get Endorsement
We are very pleased to announce that for another year, our line of Clear Hinged Deli Containers will be an endorsed product by the Green Restaurant Association. For those of you who don’t know them, the GRA is a non-profit organization that helps restaurant operators, manufacturers, distributors and consumers to become more environmentally aware. They offer certification programs for…
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Foam Food Service Packaging
My morning started out pretty good. Got the kid off to school, had my morning coffee and the temperature is actually reasonable (for this time of year)…then I read through some emails. Normally a fairly benign task to be sure. But in this morning’s emails were two articles regarding food service packaging. Needless to say…
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Top Ten of 2010
As we draw to a close for 2010 here at Genpak, I figured a top 10 list might be in order. There certainly are many topics to choose from both inside and outside our company. Who knew the food service industry could be such a hot bed of topics? From silly governmental bans to block-buster…
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IBIE 2010!
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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It’s been busy so far…
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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NRA Show
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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Product spotlight – July
Can’t remember where I heard the phrase “if less is more than there’s no end to me”. Had to be from some movie somewhere. Anyway, that’s the phrase that comes to mind when thinking about our Smart Set Pro microwave safe containers and lids which is the subject of the July Product Spotlight. Now I…
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