The Top Five Benefits of the Point of Purchase Display
Korpack Will Make Your Point of Purchase Displays – POP! The Super Bowl is just around the corner, and you can bet that your favorite grocery store is gearing up for it. The next time you shop there you’ll see displays featuring your favorite beverages, chips and salsa, assortments of crackers for cheeses, and scores […]
QR Scan Codes Help Get Your Message Out Loud and Clear
The QR code, short for Quick Response code, was invented in 1984 by the Denso Corporation of Japan as a way of overcoming the limitations of barcodes. They gained importance after the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota incorporated the code in their manufacturing process as a means of identifying and tracking automotive parts. Although QR codes […]
Digital Printing: Opening the Door to Creative Merchandising Opportunities
Digital printing on-demand continues to be one of the biggest trends in packaging. Unlike offset and flexo printing, digital printing does not need a separate plate for each print run. Instead, all colors are printed in a single pass, eliminating the need to constantly replace plates, which is a big cost and time saver. The […]
Standing Out on a Crowded Shelf
If you’ve visited the coffee aisle of your favorite grocery store lately, you may have noted that the packages of coffee are taking up about 25% more shelf space than they did last year. That begs the question, “How does one brand stand out from another in a sea of competition?” The answer: packaging and […]
Packaging Consulting Tailored to Meet Your Needs
At Korpack, our packaging consulting clients vary by size, industry, and a host of other variables. They range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies and everything in-between. But they all have one thing in common: they engage us because of our expertise, our ability to provide additional bandwidth to their internal packaging team, and our […]
Why does your stretch film constantly break?
Stretch Film breaks are more than just an annoyance; they are the first problem you need to solve if you want to improve your warehouse’s efficiency and productivity. It is not unusual for this to happen from time to time, maybe even a few times a day. If you begin to see breaks more than […]
You are wasting money hand wrapping pallets
Are you still stretch wrapping your pallets by hand? Sorry to tell you this, but if your company always depends on manual labor for this, you will be losing money in the long run. Early in the 1970s, the American industry realized the benefits of unifying pallets. By making one big pallet load out of […]
Things to Know Before Buying a Case Sealer
Semi-Automatic Case Sealing Machines You might have realized by now that making your employees form, tape, pack, and close boxes are not the most efficient way of doing things. If that’s the case, it is time for you to add a Case Sealer machine to your packaging line. Adding a case sealer to your plant […]
Semi-Automatic Stretch Wrap Machines Will Reduce Labor Costs
Semi-Automatic Stretch Wrappers One of the most expensive businesses to run is a manufacturing plant. These facilities cost millions to keep up and running, and much of the cost is associated with labor, which is very difficult to find these days. Warehouses need workers to monitor the processes at the facility to make sure everything […]
Everything you need to know about Corrugated Boxes
Corrugated 101 Corrugated fiberboard cartons (commonly referred to as corrugated boxes) are extremely cheap boxes used widely in retail packaging, product displays, and many other applications that require lightweight, resistant packaging. They have two main components: The Linerboard and the Medium. Linerboard is the flat material found on the outer and inner surfaces that adheres […]