Learning Center
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.
Cost & Price
How Much Does an Overwrapper Cost? Budgetary Ranges and Cost Drivers
Paperboard overwrappers are usually pretty custom pieces of equipment, and they can range from $350k to $2M, depending on how elaborate the system. We’ll highlight budgetary estimates and walk you through what drives prices up.
Secondary Packaging 101
What Does Douglas Make? An All-in-One Look at Our Secondary Packaging Line-up
We’re known for case packing and shrink wrapping – we do both, but that’s only a quarter of our line. Take a look at what we design and build, our markets, our sister company, and what we don’t make.
