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Whether you’re looking for solutions to specific challenges or wanting to deepen your overall knowledge of secondary packaging, our Learning Center is designed to give you the resources to make confident decisions about your secondary packaging systems.
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How-To
How to Choose the Right Secondary Packaging Format for My Product?
Before exploring automated secondary packaging options, you need to select a packaging format: case, tray, carton, shrink film, multipack or variety pack. We’ll explain these formats, as well as the four factors that make your decision.
Secondary Packaging 101
Packaging Line Integration: What Determines Success?
Packaging line integration is not only machine performance, but also handoffs and effectiveness as a single system. We’ll explain the three factors of a well-integrated line and address the question of performance accountability.
Problems / Challenges
Sustainable Secondary Packaging: Strategies to Reduce Waste and Improve Efficiency
Sustainable secondary packaging is done through three drivers: right-sizing, reducing, and choosing more recyclable materials. We’ll explain how these factors impact your line, and how sustainability tends to cut both cost and footprint.
Secondary Packaging 101
What Are Change Parts in Packaging Equipment? A Complete Guide
The physical components swapped off-of and onto machines during changeovers are change parts. We’ll help you understand how these tools quietly drive changeover time, cost, and flexibility; as well as how machine type alters their impact.
How-To
What is the Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) Requirement for Packaging Equipment?
Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) is a federal safety requirement that makes sure machines are de-energized before maintenance. We’ll walk you through the eight-step procedure, explain your role, and show how it applies to the equipment you work with.
