Greener Packing Supplies and Materials

Greener packaging supplies and materials are friendlier to the environment and reduce our footprint. New technology developments continue to create newer product lines that use less to achieve same or better solutions and are more cost effective for business. Businesses who choose to adopt newer technology for better bottom line performance are often choosing greener packing materials by consequence.

The range of greener packing material supply solutions available to business is vast and continues to improve with more efficient automation equipment that achieve more with less product. Technology advancements are releasing many new alternate product materials that are biodegradable or at minimum provide recyclable product alternatives. It has never been easier for companies to change over to greener solutions for their operations.

Businesses that want to make the transition will be more successful in achieving product performance requirements and cost efficiencies when they consult and partner with a knowledgeable packing material supply company that has industry expertise and is a well established company.

For Industries and Businesses in Canada that want to change over, I recommend Provincial Paper & Packaging - Canada as a good solution source for: Greener Packing Supplies and Materials. They are located in the Greater Toronto Area (Mississauga) of Ontario Canada and service multi units industry supply solutions across Canada.

For industries in the United States, I suggest looking for a local distributor that is well established and be sure to ask if they have experience providing environment friendlier packing materials that are both high performance and cost effective.

If any readers would like to provide information on other supply solution sources have worked for them, in Canada, United States, Mexico and other countries, let us know for other to consider and contact.

Environment Friendly Packaging Products and Supplies

Environment friendly or friendlier packaging is available now. Adopting environment friendlier packaging solutions is better for environment and makes good business senses. Businesses need to change their packaging methods and products and many industries and packaging operations have already changed over to products that are environment friendlier solutions.

What is environment friendlier products? These are products that produce less landfill because they bio-degrade naturally or produce less waste (AKA dunnage) because they require less product to achieve the same or better packaging performance.

Some examples of industrial packaging solutions with greener alternatives include:

• Unitizing Adhesives. Such as Lock N Pop. Here is product that produces virtually no waste and replaces pallet wrap / stretch wrap / stretch film wrapping systems with a spray on adhesive that enabled units/ boxes to stick together on a pallet and will keep units together until ready to un-unitize simply by un-snaping units apart.
• High performance machine stretch film for use with high performance (new technology) stretch wrap machines enable stretch wrapping product to stretch up to 300% further, while providing improved unitizing performance and greatly reducing cost per unit wrapping.

Some examples of industrial packaging that reduces impact or footprint on our environment are:

• Reusable protective packaging products such as pads that giving cushioning to items packaged in boxes.
• Corrugate and paper packaging products made with mostly recycled paper products thereby reducing take from new forest resources. Such as recycled : kraft papers, envelopes, newsprint, packaging papers, paper boxes etc.
  
• Plastic packaging products such as plastic bins and plastic storage containers and plastic boxes that are made with recycled plastic products
  

Industries and business have a win win situation when they choose to adopt environment friendlier packaging.

• They can save money by using more efficient products that reduce supply budgets
• Using more efficient products improve performance and can reduce spoilage / damages/ loss and improve aesthetic presentation with more and do this consistently
• Reduce waste means less cost with dunnage removal
  
• No waste or organic waste means little or no cost with clean up and disposal process and resources to carry processes out
  

To learn more about environment friendly packaging options for you business, it is best to speak with a packaging supply distributor in your area that is well established. A professional packaging supply distributor with at least 10 years experience serving your industry should be sought, this will ensure product solutions that address your unique needs in the standard line and the environment friendly solution line can be recommended, sourced and competitively priced.

Canadians looking for Businessess and industry looking for professional environment friendlier supply solutions in Canada, should contact a Canadian Packaging and Shipping Supply Distributor

Others should begin with their local telephone company to begin the search and ask possible contender how many years experience they have, then ask a sales representative to speak with you to learn about your supply needs. Find out prices and then ask for environment friendly packaging solutions they can recommend and what is their performance. Most important quality is knowledge and reliability over price. In the long run a quality solution always pays for itself in customer service, expert advise, proper product solutions and willingness to help you find solutions right for your needs and budget.

Packaging Equipment and Machines

Star Packaging Equipment - Canada is a packaging equipment distributor that is top notch. So many companies sell equipment but few can support the products they sell and so the customer is stranded as soon as they need packaging equipment repair, maintenance, upgrades or assistance to integrate with other systems. These guys have all that and they even take it a step further as they even provide support for packaging systems not bought from them. So for all the poor guys and gals that didn't think to check if the company the bought their equipment from would be able or willing to support it, here is a place you can turn for assistance.

These guys helped me out with my Lantech Stretch Wrapper. Last summer my floor operations got held up after one of the forklift operators smashed into it. I called the company where I bought it and they said they don't provide support services directly but said they knew someone who might be able to help but that he was not available until next week Thursday. This was crazy! There is no way we can have production come to a stop for a week and hand wrapping was not an option.

So I did what most people do I went online typed in packaging equipment services and Voila! There was my saviors "Star Packaging Equipment". I called told them of our time critical emergency. They said not to worry and had one of their packaging mechanics over in the hour. The mechanic was a nice guy and boy was he fast. He had the stretch wrapper fixed and our production back on in just a few hours.

I can't praise these guys enough. I recommend all packaging operations in Greater Toronto Area , Ontario, Canada to source the equipment with them and they will have no worries. For those that haven't and are stranded, make sure to keep their contact details handy cause when your in a production jam with some packaging system not doing its job , these guys can help.

Visit their website for contact details:
Star Packaging Equipment - Canada