Contract Packaging July/August 2020

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4 Honesty,

negotiation required for CPG/co-man success

5 Sanitizer spike to continue

12 CP/CMs navigate

COVID-19

13 CPA scholarship

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Contents VOLUME 16, ISSUE 2

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EDITORIAL Anne Marie Mohan EDITOR mohan@packworld.com

ART Dave Bacho CREATIVE DIRECTOR Kathy Travis ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR

AUDIENCE & DIGITAL David Newcorn SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL AND DATA Elizabeth Kachoris SENIOR DIRECTOR, DIGITAL AND DATA Jen Krepelka DIRECTOR, WEBSITES & DIGITAL DESIGN STRATEGY

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PMMI MEDIA GROUP Joseph Angel PRESIDENT, PUBLISHER Susan DaMario DIRECTOR, MARKETING Amber Miller SENIOR MARKETING MANAGER Bea Greany BRAND OPERATIONS MANAGER Sarah Loeffler DIRECTOR, MEDIA INNOVATION Janet Fabiano FINANCIAL SERVICES MANAGER Lloyd Ferguson FOUNDING PARTNER

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Co-packer Bonded Pac puts the company’s core values into play to bring on the capabilities needed to produce print-registered club-store multipacks for Coke-Consolidated in record time.

Navigate COVID-19 12 CP/CMs Sean Riley, Senior Director, Media and Industry Communications for PMMI, speaks with CPA Managing Director Ron Puvak about how COVID-19 has affected the co-pack/co-man industry.

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DEPARTMENTS

2 Forefront 3 CPA President’s Letter 4 Brand Owner Insight 5 Industry News 13 CPA News 15 Membership Directory 19 New Products 21 Ad Index

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Forefront

E-Comm Accelerates ANNE MARIE MOHAN, Editor Like a pebble dropped into a pond, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have rippled outward, causing far-reaching changes in nearly every aspect of life. In the food and beverage industry, shelter-in-place orders have caused a shift in the types of products most in demand and the way in which consumers are procuring those items.

According to a June 2020 report from Adobe Analytics, the first six months of 2020 drove $368.8 billion in online sales—a $77 billion difference in the expected spend. While online grocery shopping orders have declined somewhat

from their peak, most experts agree it’s unlikely e-commerce shopping rates will drop to their pre-pandemic levels.

As a result, CPGs are having to fasttrack, if not build from the ground up, their e-commerce strategies in order to not be left behind. For example, in May, PepsiCo launched two direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites offering an assortment of their food and beverage products.

Said Gibu Thomas, Senior Vice President & Head of eCommerce, for PepsiCo, “In these uncertain times, as more and more consumers are using eCommerce channels to purchase food and beverage products, PantryShop.com and Snacks.com offer shoppers another alternative for easy and fast access to products they love.”

The products available on these sites

comprise boxes of assorted PepsiCo products. For a co-packer, a job such as repacking PepsiCo products into multipacks falls right in its wheelhouse, as do many other capabilities needed for e-commerce success, such as supply chain and logistics savvy, warehouse availability, packaging postponement capabilities, flexibility, and agility.

There’s no silver lining to COVID-19, especially for those whose health has been directly impacted. But for CPGs and copackers, it has presented opportunities for new partnerships to serve consumers with the products they want and need, when and where they need them. CP

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President’s Letter

CP/CMs Meet COVID-19 Challenges MARK O’MALLEY, CPA President When I assumed the role of President of CPA, I never could have predicted our collective experience since that day.

While I am no expert on the coronavirus pandemic, I am proud to be a part of the contract packaging and manufacturing (CP/CM) industry now more than ever. The COVID-19 crisis has presented both the best and worst of times for our industry. I have personally witnessed the immediate reaction to unplanned needs from clients for products and services. But as we roll into the beginning of the end of the first wave, we did it (and are still doing it)! It is clear that we are not out of the woods yet, and the CP/CM industry is collectively looking at how to be ready for the second wave.

We have seen massive industry innovation through answering the call to help during this crisis. From hand sanitizer to the most basic food products, CPA members continue their commitment to meeting their customers’ needs. Increased safety cleaning and separated workspaces have been put in place to ensure all employees feel safe and decrease their risk of impacting others when they leave work. Some of the industry’s major innovations during this time include increased shift utilization, running more shifts, and greater capacity than our lines were originally designed to handle. It has been a magnificent effort, and we continue to see growth within the industry. Findings from our new report show that double-digit growth will continue for some time. This new CPA State of the Industry report is set to be launched in August 2020.

During this uncertain time, we were fortunate to have held our Annual Meeting early in 2020. It allowed us to conduct our board elections. We are pleased to welcome our new board members.

Ron Reinders was re-elected, and we welcomed two new faces: Michael Collins and Jen Cusick. All have committed to a two-year term and are active in CPA committees and the Annual Meeting.

We have established a new nominating committee to help the CPA Board recruit and vet anyone wanting to serve on the board.

Patty Dodson, our current VP, is the chair. She is looking to reach out to anyone who wants to serve on the board or a CPA committee. There are volunteer submission forms on our website.

Membership remains strong. We have seen demand for new member information and membership benefits as the future is a little unclear. With the CPA’s business development efforts, educational programs, and heightened access to PMMI’s Business Intelligence libraries, the value of CPA membership continues to grow. If you have not checked out the new video, “Why use a CP/CM?,” it’s on our website. We will provide this new video to any

member who wants to include it on their company website and/or in their marketing programs. Interested members can reach out to CPA staff at info@contractpackaging.org.

With over 10,000 subscribers getting our bi-monthly newsletter, we are exposing our members’ services to a large segment of the market, adding in the partnership with PMMI Media Group, which has increased our reach threefold. With the CPA-dedicated e-newsletters and Contract Packaging magazine, PMMI Media Group has constructed robust promotional products with an industry-focused audience. Our relationship with PMMI Media Group continues to provide value for our members in industry exposure and the ability to promote unique offerings.

Our Managing Director has been meeting with the European Co-Packers Association, formalizing our relationship with a press release. We have exchanged links and are allowing their members to access and post the new video to their website. We expect to do more with them in the next few months—from possible joint virtual panel discussions to a longer-term goal of shared space at trade shows. The connection to Europe is a good one, as many of our members’ existing clients are global, and members will now be able to find resources on both sides of the ocean with less effort.

As we mentioned, the relationship with PMMI has been strong and is growing. If you have not yet accessed their OpX or Business Intelligence information, you are missing a real opportunity. From learning how to best conduct a virtual FAT (in this time, a very difficult feat) to learning about trends in a specific market segment, this information gives you a leg up in setting future direction or improving your business operation.

This year will continue to be a very dynamic and challenging one for CPA. We are here to help our members find ways to manage through this uncertain time. While face-to-face meetings may be difficult to organize, our webinars and virtual meetings have been very popular. Some of the topics not only echo best practices, but many are also now looking to the future and how best to be ready for what lies ahead. We hope that by fall 2020 there will be some opportunities for CPA members to increase their visibility and network with other members. CP

Mark O’Malley is President/CEO of Paket Corp., www.paketcorp.com.

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Brand Owner Insight

The Purpose of Honesty; The Place for Negotiation ROBBY MARTIN Contributing Editor The reasons a Consumer Packaged Goods company may pursue a relationship with a contract manufacturer are many. I often hear that one of the most consistent factors in successful engagements is the relationship they maintain with their partners.

As we’ve discussed previously, great relationships have many factors. Some may be uncontrollable. However, there are many controllable factors that can have a profound effect on a successful CPG/coman relationship. These include: • The provision for safety • The power of trust • The purpose of honesty • The place for negotiation • The price of “skin in the game” • The protection of the brand • The promise of confidentiality Like we did in the last issue of Contract Packaging magazine (see pwgo.to/5624), let’s take a look at a couple of these.

The purpose of honesty Like safety, it would be great if honesty could just be assumed in a business (or any other) relationship. Most of the time, we should be able to expect honesty in our conversations, or even in negotiations (we’ll get to those later). But, truly effective relationships call for a kind of honesty that does more than just tell the truth when we speak or write.

Effective relationships go deeper into a level of honesty that causes both parties to find common ground, or work for it where it doesn’t exist. The type of honesty I am talking about helps to prevent, or at least reduce, surprises along the project

journey. Here are some questions to ask yourself to help drive this type of honesty: 1. When discussing a potential project and possible costs or timing, how accurately do you share the specifics of your project?

• Do you share that it has a target cost you need to hit?

• When appropriate, do you share that the “project” is really just an idea, and may or may not ever be approved?

• Conversely, do you play coy by saying that you are just “thinking about” an idea when you know that your company is deeply committed to moving forward with all haste?

2. When talking about risks to your joint work with a contract provider, do you ask questions about your project’s fit with their strategic plans and objectives?

• Do you make it okay for a provider to tell you a project is not a good fit for them?

• Do you offer a provider the chance to share the good parts and the challenging parts of taking on your project?

• Do you ask if the project could ever reach a size that would cause them a concern?

Asking these questions will help you to have more than a surface look at the key issues that lead to strong partnerships.

Deciding to ask them shows that you are sincere in your desire to be a “good partner.” It also just may get you the nod for a project when others are knocking at the partner’s door at the same time you are. This kind of openness from you also conveys a depth of honesty that can be the difference between transactional arrangements and true partnerships.

The place for negotiation

ongoing business arrangement than just the price of the goods being provided. I believe negotiation is often about knowing your place. To know your place, your standing, and your importance (or the importance of your project) to another entity means to know them. You must understand how they think, how they work, and what is important to them.

You see, many factors ultimately roll into the consideration set for determining pricing. Factors can include: • Constraints on products or material sourcing • Context in which your products will be produced • General fit of the products with the manufacturing process The best partnerships understand how the co-man or co-packer’s costs are built.

While very few partnerships get to the point of sharing every line of the contract provider’s P&L, those parties that share enough understanding to explain where they can improve pricing or how an added feature or service will affect costs are the kind of partnerships that can find their way to “win-win” situations.

I’ve heard it said that the best arrangements are the ones that have equal pain for both parties. But, I’m a much bigger fan of the arrangements that bring about equal benefit and reason for optimism for both parties. Why must this negotiating stuff be unpleasant, anyway?

In our next column, we’ll explore a few more pillars of a great partnership between CPGs and contract providers. In the meantime, keep challenging yourself to be more honest and open in your communications to make those negotiations reach the win-win objectives more quickly!

The thoughts of negotiation often turn simply to cost discussions. But there is so much more to a partnership and to an

Robby Martin is Engineering Specialist for Bush Brothers & Company.

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Industry News

Hand Sanitizer Spike Here to Stay With the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, U.K. co-packers were inundated with inquires for personal care products—a trend that shows no signs of tailing off. That’s according to U.K. trade association BCMPA, The Association for Contract Manufacturing, Packing, Fulfilment & Logistics, which reported in late June that inquiries to the BCMPA for personal care items rocketed by more than 500% shortly after the coronavirus lockdown was implemented, while inquiries across all sectors in April increased 60% compared with 2019. In the same month, interest in the production of hand sanitizer and antibacterial products represented 90% of the total inquiries for personal care items.

While the proportion of new hand sanitizer inquiries fell slightly in May,

by June, figures remained unseasonably high, and BCMPA predicts that similar levels of demand will continue for the foreseeable future.

The association adds that there is also a major new requirement for its members to collate and contract-pack sanitation “kits” containing items like hand gel sachets and face masks, as schools, shops, airlines, and businesses open again.

Says BCMPA Chief Executive Rodney Steel, “The COVID-19 situation has created an inevitable shift in production and inquiry trends, right from the beginning. Although some sectors have obviously suffered, personal care has gone through the roof, and we believe that trend is here to stay.

“Not only have inquiries shot up and remained high, but the size of produc-

tion orders has seen a massive increase.

Orders that were typically for 20 or 30,000 units are now in the hundreds of thousands or millions.” CP

ing and cartoning lines with serialization and aggregation capabilities.

• PCI Pharma Services, a provider of specialist outsourced drug manufacturing, clinical trial services, and commercial packaging to the global biopharmaceutical industry, has expanded the bottling line capacity at its Rockford, Ill., facility to produce an extra 100 million bottles/yr.

• Precise Packaging, a CP/CM for the personal care, home fragrance, and OTC markets, has opened a new

15,000-sq-ft production facility in Fall River, Mass. The company has also begun development of CBD oil-based products for the personal care market.

• South Atlantic Packaging has added Tampa, Fla.-based Versatile Packagers to its family of contract packaging companies, which also includes ProStar Packaging in Pennsylvania.

• TopPop Packaging, a startup product development and contract manufacturing company, has opened a 30,000-sq-ft, FDA-registered manufacturing center in Marlton, N.J., where it is offering product development, product production, and packaging of shelf-stable, ready-tofreeze, alcohol-infused adult ice pops.

• Woods Distribution Solutions is now offering a variety of commercial packaging services, including food packaging, POS displays, kitting, heat-shrink/ shrink-sleeve, and product assembly in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. CP

CP/CM Scoops • 87P of Carol Stream, Ill., has begun manufacturing private-label CBDinfused teas, juices, and botanical beverages on behalf of a variety of co-packing customers.

• Candre Cannabis Inc., of Sundre, Alberta, Canada, and Dope Automation Ltd. have entered into a partnership to develop and implement a contract packaging center of excellence focused on cannabis pre-rolls.

• Haviland Contract Manufacturing, a chemical formulation and contract packager for industrial, retail, and medical device cleaning industries located in Grand Rapids, Mich., has hired Dan Burke as account manager for the company.

• Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging, a contract packager serving the global pharmaceutical industry with bottling, blistering, pouching, unit-of-use, compliance, and secondary packaging services, has purchased three high-speed blister-

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Packager Profile Bonded Pac’s Kara Jesse, Key Account Manager, Jon Hayward, Vice President (center), and Matt Nelson, General Manager, were instrumental in bringing the Coke-Consolidated project to fruition.

Core values drive differentiation Bonded Pac is the contract packaging arm of Bonded Logistics, a family-owned company with three divisions: warehousing, transportation, and co-packing.

The company was founded in 1972 by Jim and Robin Carr under the name Bonded Distribution, in a 30,000-sq-ft facility. Today the company is run by second-generation owners Barbara Carr Woodall and Scott Carr. It has grown to encompass more than 2 million square feet of public, contract, and leased space in 12 locations and employs over 300 team members.

When it speaks of being God Honoring in its core goals, Bonded Logistics aspires to follow the Golden Rule, act with integrity, be trustworthy, care for one another, and show compassion. Service Excellence means being quality-focused, exceeding expectations, focusing on clients, accepting accountability, and being committed to safety. With its core value of Teamwork, Bonded Logistics has committed to an inclusive environment and to fostering a positive attitude, encouraging development, communicating effectively, and empowering people. And lastly, Innovation requires that the company showcase agility, be forward-thinking, embrace change, seek continuous improvement, and provide visionary leadership.

While most companies claim a set of core values, not all weave them into the fabric of their company culture. Bonded Logistics has taken the time to do that, with positive results.

Core Values Translate to Project Success Co-packer Bonded Pac puts the company’s core values into play to bring on the capabilities needed to produce print-registered club-store multipacks for Coke-Consolidated in record time.

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escribed by SVP, Product Supply Planning of Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. Brett Frankenberg as “a great partner and even better people,” co-packer Bonded Pac of Charlotte, N.C., recently completed a project for the U.S.’s largest Coca-Cola bottler that put the co-packer’s core values—God Honoring, Service Excellence, Teamwork, and Innovation—on full display.

In July 2019, Coke-Consolidated approached Bonded Pac with a new job that required the assembly and wrapping of club-store multipacks in print-registered

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film. Although at the time, the co-packer lacked the equipment required to do the job, within the space of just three months, it was up and running, producing CokeConsolidated’s Variety Pack in brightlycolored, brand-enhancing shrink film.

Being nimble is a core advantage of co-packers, but it’s Bonded Pac’s customer service, transparency, innovation, and family values that Jon Hayward, Vice President of Bonded Pac, says also differentiates it from other contract packaging companies. Incorporating those values into its daily operations is what made the Coke-Consolidated project possible.

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Bonded Pac chose an Arpac Brandpac BPTW-500 Series combination shrink-film tray wrapper and heat tunnel for the CokeConsolidated job.

tomers. “Customer service is the backbone of our external value proposition,” Hayward shares. “This starts with clear, frequent, and honest communication. We combine this with great inventory management, flexibility, and excellent product quality.”

One example of how Bonded Pac creates and reinforces value for its customers is the way in which it enables transparency—“being able to see your product, your inventory, and what’s going on,” The Variety Pack includes three 10-ct cartons—one says Hayward. “We give everyeach of Sprite, Cherry Coke, and Orange Fanta—holding body access to that through 7.5-oz ‘mini sip-size’ cans. their iPhone or any web-based device, and we don’t charge extra for that.

“Internally the family atmosphere has “I think it’s very comforting for people been maintained, despite growing over the to be able to look at their inventory, their years to several hundred employees,” says production, and their outbound shipments Hayward. “We document these core values, in real time. And that’s just one example. we discuss them regularly, and we provide Having a one-stop place for communicatraining to our employees to teach them tion with the company through our Key on the values. This has allowed us to retain Account Manager, Kara Jesse, so the good, tenured employees in a very comcustomer doesn’t have to call nine difpetitive labor market. Here in Charlotte, ferent people to get something answered we have several Amazon facilities that call is another example. We really invest in on the same people we do. So emphasizing people like Kara to be that liaison between these core values has worked well for us.”

Bonded Pac and the customer.”

Outwardly, Bonded Logistics, and in parBonded Pac’s co-packing services, ticular Bonded Pac, is extremely focused on conducted in a 218,000-sq-ft facility, are creating and reinforcing value for its cus-

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extensive. They include “just a little bit of almost everything,” Hayward shares.

“A little bit of almost everything” means decorative shrink sleeving, bottle decoration using steam, variety packs, twin packs, kitting, shrink wrapping, and some water based-chemical bottle filling. The company also assembles POP displays, including full-pallet, half-pallet, and quarter-pallet sizes.

Persistence pays off As noted, Coke-Consolidated, also based in Charlotte, is the largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the U.S. The company makes, sells, and delivers more than 300 Coca-Cola Company and other beverage brands and flavors to 66 million consumers in territories spanning 14 states and the District of Columbia. Much like Bonded Pac, its purpose is to “honor God, serve others, pursue excellence, and grow profitably,” making for a complementary working relationship with the co-packer.

Bonded Pac’s Kara Jesse shares that before Bonded Pac began the Variety Pack project for Coke-Consolidated, it had done some smaller, one-time jobs for them.

She attributes the fact that Coke-Consolidated brought the Variety Pack to them to the persistence of the Bonded Pac team in trying to win the bottler’s business and Bonded Pac’s success with Coke-Consolidated’s previous jobs. “So it was great to

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Packager Profile

finally get an opportunity that would be ongoing business with them,” she says.

“And I think, over the years, proving ourselves when they did have those little projects set us up to be that right partner for them when they had this bigger opportunity come around.”

The genesis of the Variety Pack dates before July 2019. Explains Frankenberg, “We had spoken to Bonded Pac for a while about commercializing this, but they didn’t have the capability or the business to justify [investing in new equipment], and we couldn’t commit the volume to do so. Once we proved out a prototype of our Variety Pack in the market, the conversation changed.”

When Coke-Consolidated came to them, Bonded Pac did have experience with multipack shrink wrapping, but not with print-registered film. Its existing equipment wrapped multipacks in clear film—a different process than the one needed for print-registered, or aligned, film. “The machine we have for clear film is a side-seal machine,” explains Hayward. “In other words, you take two rolls of film, one on top and one on the bottom, and you bring them together and glue them with a sealing bar. So, to bring two films together and register the film for both sides is almost impossible.”

What Bonded Pac needed was a machine that could wrap the film all the way around the case before sealing it. “It’s just a totally different technology,” says Hayward.

Equipment opens up opportunities Once the volume was there for the Variety Pack, Bonded Pac put its core values into play, using innovation, agility, and teamwork, among other skills, to find a way to accomplish the project within the extremely tight time frame. Integrity was displayed on both sides, with no formal commitment from Coke-Consolidated, but an understanding that the job was Bonded Pac’s if they purchased the equipment. “And we did that with a handshake,” Hayward says.

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Sprite, Orange Fanta, and Cherry Coke in 7.5-oz “mini sip-size” cans—from singleSKU pallets, manually placing them in a corrugated tray, and shrink wrapping the pack with film that’s printed with graphics for the three brands, resulting in a 30-ct

multipack with an impressive billboard.

Once Bonded Pac had the job, the countdown began. Hayward says the company first researched used shrink-wrapping equipment, as they didn’t have the business case to justify a brand new machine. They

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narrowed down their search to two models, after which they visited the plants where the machines were located.

Hayward shares that in addition to being able to wrap printregistered film, the equipment also needed to have a footprint suitable for Bonded Pac’s facility. “There are very large pieces of equipment that do this at very, very high speeds in bottle-filling plants. Even Coke themselves had equipment that potentially was looked at as a possibility. But the footprint was so large that it just didn’t make sense for the size of our building and how often we would be utilizing the equipment,” he says.

In terms of speed requirements, Hayward explains that any machine would be limited to how quickly operators would be able to manually load the trays. However, Bonded Pac was looking for something that was faster than its existing, 25-tray/min clear-film shrink wrapper.

Ultimately it chose an Arpac Brandpac™ BPTW-500 Series combination shrink-film tray wrapper and heat tunnel. The continuous-motion bottom-overlap machine operates on-demand, without a seal bar, to shrink wrap up to 60 tray packs/min, depending on the height and weight of the product. The machine can wrap both clear and print-registered film, which will allow Bonded Pac to provide both options from one system for other customers in addition to Coke-Consolidated.

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the ease of setup of this equipment and the programmable PLC that comes with it allows us to save multiple recipes and get up and going fairly quickly.”

After purchasing the equipment, Bonded Pac utilized its freight group to transport it to the plant, used in-house team members to set up the equipment, and then enlisted Arpac’s SupportPro service group to help them with programming. Overall, Hayward credits the hard work of a number of Bonded Logistics’ team members for the successful installation and ultimate operation of the equipment—all of which was done in time for production of the first Variety Packs in early October 2019.

The initial campaign comprised 120,000 packs. Since then (at presstime), Bonded Pac has done two additional runs, each about half the size of the first one, with the machine enabling the company to produce up to 12,000 cases per eight-hour shift. Bonded Pac has also done some work for other customers using the Arpac machine, including multipacks in clear film for online sales.

Speed, agility gets the job done Addressing a customer’s needs on a short deadline, as it did for Coke-Consolidated, is something that Bonded Pac excels in, Jesse confirms. “As a company, we’re very capable of turning things around quickly,” she says. “We have a great team internally, and everyone knows their piece of the puzzle. So it’s very easy as a

group for us to work quickly and get things done.”

Hayward agrees emphatically, noting that he believes Bonded Pac’s agility is one of the reasons Coke-Consolidated chose the co-packer for the job, rather than doing it in-house. “I think the larger the company, the harder it is to move quickly,” he says. “So I think our ability to be nimble and quick, and not have all the signoffs and all the different people who have to get involved when it’s a larger company, was a huge advantage.”

Having flexible space at its facility was another advantage, he says. “These projects take a lot of space for a couple of weeks, and then they go away. There’s a lot of raw material that has to be run. So for us to be able to hold the product for them while we do this was a huge help. They run an efficient operation, and holding all of this promo material, in addition to their regular material, could have stressed their existing space.”

Also solidifying the deal was “trust, being local, being in business as long as we have, and persistence,” Hayward adds.

Summarizes Frankenberg, “Bonded Pac helped us work through the process to bring the new product to market.

Together with our brand partners, we worked in collaboration with Bonded Pac to commercialize the Variety Pack and do so in a way that was economically beneficial. …In three months, Bonded Pac set up this capability and delivered on a really tight timeline. We are very satisfied.” CP

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COVID-19 Response

CP/CMs Navigate COVID-19 Sean Riley, Senior Director, Media and Industry Communications for PMMI, speaks with CPA Managing Director Ron Puvak about how COVID-19 has affected the co-pack/co-man industry.

Sean Riley: The assumption is that there’s been a shift in contract packaging needs since the coronavirus outbreak. Is this true? What are CPA members seeing on their end?

Ron Puvak: Yes, there has been a shift, and yet there’s been kind of a growth at the same time. The shift has been into sanitizers, personal hygiene, cleaners, those sorts of things. Whereas many of our members maybe hadn’t been in that area or that arena much, now they’re being pressed. They’re getting a lot of requests to increase that side of the business. And that’s obviously because of the situation.

But on the other side, they’re seeing increases in all of their products, especially on the food and beverage side.

Obviously, we are a capacity driven-type group—when people need capacity, they come to us. So we were some of the first folks to be actually driven into this arena to say, “Hey, can you help us out? We really need this now. How fast can you retool?” So yes, there’s been a shift, and I’m proud to say that our members really have led the charge to help meet those needs.

As we’ve seen with the food supply and the healthcare supply, these are all things that haven’t gone down in use. … these things have continued to grow because we all need to eat, we’re all trying to stay clean, things like that. Is that the gist of why there has been this overflow into contract packaging? People who have normally been able to keep up with it in their own plants have had to go to

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contract packagers and manufacturers for help?

Yes, I think that’s part of it. We’re in an industry that’s been growing at a 12.2% rate over the last five years, that’s compound annual growth rate. So we were growing already at a very, very large rate, and much of the business was coming from existing clients—Fortune 100, 500 companies looking at new SKUs and things like that. So we’re just kind of seeing that shift now of, “I need this capacity now.”

One of the interesting areas has been the foodservice side. Whereas a lot of major brands have been in foodservice, their business has virtually slowed or almost stopped. And now they need individual packs, and they may not have been positioned to do that. So they’ve turned to contract packagers/contract manufacturers to help them get to that retail packaging versus foodservice.

So were contract packagers prepared, or how have they prepared for this sudden shift or increase?

Well, it’s often been said that co-man and co-packs have a horizon of about six months, and that’s a long-term horizon.

So in essence, we’ve always been flexible. We’ve always been capacity driven. We’ve always had a can-do attitude, and how do we help when somebody comes in the door says, “I need this right now”?

And we’ve always been known to be quick to market, fast to market. If you wanted a product brought to market, you went to a co-man and co-pack because they can typically do it faster and at a better rate and pace than you might be able to do on your own. So we’ve always been available to increase capacity.

And not that we were sitting on excess or were out of capacity, but we had the ability to add capacity probably easier than you can at a large-scale CPG or brand.

So as you hit on, co-packers, co-manufacturers are kind of prepped for things like this—obviously not something of this major of a scale­—but you’re used to adapting on-the-fly to trends.

Yes. It’s in our DNA. It’s a core component of who a co-man and co-pack is. You don’t know when that next big order might be coming in, it might be a phone call today or tomorrow. So we’ve always had that feeling like there’s something coming, and we’re ready for it. CP Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from a podcast, “OEM COVID-19 #9 - How Contract Packaging/Manufacturing is Impacted

by COVID-19,” part of an ongoing series from PMMI. Hear the full podcast at pwgo.to/5679.

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Association News

CPA Webinars Offer Help During COVID-19 In June 2020, CPA presented three webinars designed to help contract packagers and manufacturers (CP/CMs) during the current COVID-19 crisis. All are available online at www.contractpackaging. org/webinars. They include: • “Contingency Plan Response™ - Helping Business Leaders and Organizations to Adapt and Thrive in the Face of Uncertainty”: Ryan Weiss, President of Effective Performance Strategies, and Dr. Dave NieKamp, a licensed clinical psychologist, share their best steps to help your business acclimate and prosper in this time of crisis. Due to COVID-19, CP/CMs now more than ever need to focus on how to adapt and thrive in the face of crisis. Everyone has experienced significant disruption, and the time for creating new habits starts now. Watch this webinar replay to learn the four steps of leading through challenging times and the tools to navigate the new, complex environment we live in now.

• “Outbreak Readiness and Improving Resilience in Supply Chains”: In this webinar, presented by CPA along with F4SS and

Nulogy, panelists share insights into lessons learned from the COVID-19 outbreak, how they have adapted their operations to prepare for a potential second wave, and how they’re readying their businesses for increased resilience to guard against any future disruptions in their global supply chains.

• “Transcending Disruption: Driving Consumer-Centric Packaging and Product Innovation”: In a competitive market, where innovative packaging and products can differentiate brands, influence shoppers, and drive growth, understanding the trends that will most impact consumers and your market is critical.

This is even more important as consumers shift their behavior and expectations due to COVID-19. In this webinar, Phil Roos, CEO of Great Lakes GrowthWorks, and Brian Wagner, co-founder and Vice President of PTIS LLC, highlight the big trends you can leverage to create packaging and product innovation that truly disrupts and provide approaches to develop this disruptive innovation.

CPA Announces 2020 Scholarship Winners CPA has awarded a total of $5,000 in scholarships to four worthy students studying packaging or business-related fields. Congrats to the winners: Jack Kelly, Ryan Nielson, Claire Frain, and Lance Legere.

Kelley is working toward a supply chain and logistics degree with a minor in economics at The Military College of South Carolina. He will be entering his sophomore year in the fall. Kelley intends to be involved with internship opportunities to stay connected to the Charleston business community and hopes to also travel outside of the U.S. in order to expand his knowledge. When he completes his degree, Kelley hopes to enter the supply chain and risk management field.

Expecting to graduate in December 2020, Nielson is working toward a packaging science degree at Clemson University.

Nielson is passionate about finding new ways to solve old problems in a way that harmonizes the collective goals of sustainability and functionality. He wants to think ahead of the market and give the consumer the innovative packaging they need before they’re aware of it. Upon graduation, Nielson plans on pursuing a career in flexible or corrugated packaging that is solution driven.

Frain is working toward a marketing degree at Quinlan School of Business: Loyola University Chicago. She is entering her junior year in the fall. Currently working three days a week as a digital marketing specialist in the packaging industry, Frain is focusing on finishing school with a high GPA and solidifying lasting connections

with her professors to help her achieve her future career goals.

Legere is working toward a communications degree with a minor in sports management from Southern New Hampshire University. He will be entering his senior year in the fall. From a young age, Lagere has had a passion for broadcasting. Once in high school, he solidified his passion by taking a class that allowed him to write sports articles for a local daily newspaper and also called high school sports games on a local radio station. Upon graduation, Legere plans on pursuing a career in sports broadcasting.

For more information on CPA scholarships, visit www.contractpackaging.org/education/scholarships.

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Association News Why Use a CP/CM? There are so many reasons brand owners and CPGs might turn to a CP/CM, and potential customers may have a lot of questions.

To help potential customers decide if using a CP/CM is right for them, CPA has created a new video for its members to share with them. Current CPA members can contact CPA to learn how to host this video on their company website. Find the video online at www.contractpackaging.org/why-use-a-contract-packager.

CPA Welcomes Board Members In March 2020, CPA announced the results of its Board of Directors Election. Join us in congratulating those Regular CPA members voted to the CPA Board of Directors. Among them are Michael Collins, Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Sterling Contract Packaging, Inc.; Jennifer Cusick, Director, Sales Operations, for Trividia Manufacturing Solutions; and Rob Reinders, President of Performance Packaging of Nevada.

Elected to the board for the first time, Collins has been with Sterling Contract Packaging for 18 years, during which time the company has experienced incredible growth, building a 150,000-sq-ft state-of-the-art facility in 2016. Collins became involved with the CPA in 2007 and most recently helped with the development of the new RFQ tool on the CPA website.

Also newly elected, is Cusick, who has 30-plus years of sales,

technical, and management experience in various industries, most recently in the manufacturing of EPA- and FDA-regulated consumer products. She has been with Trividia since 2010.

Reinders, who has been re-elected to the CPA Board of Directors, Reinders more than 30 years of knowledge in the production, operations, and sales/marketing of flexible packaging products throughout the flexible packaging industry. Reinders founded and has been the President of Performance Packaging since January 1995, founded and has been President of Performance Machinery Corporation (PMC) since January 2015, and founded and has been CEO of RCR Beverages dba Blue Kangaroo Contract Filling Services since January 2015.

Upcoming Events Don’t miss CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers, at these upcoming industry events: PACK EXPO International PLMA Nov. 8-11, 2020 Nov. 15-17, 2020, Chicago SAVE THE DATE

The 2021 CPA Annual Meeting Dates are set!

Join CPA in Clearwater, Fla., March 9–11, 2021.

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Membership Directory

For in-depth searches on individual members’ capabilities, visit www.contractpackaging.org Aaron Kendell Packaging Equipment(AEK) www.aekpack.com KC Christensen (630) 238-2660 Aaron Thomas Company, Inc. www.packaging.com Aaron Bacon (800) 394-4776 ActionPak Inc. Ira J. Smith (215) 785-4548

ADCO Manufacturing

www.adcomfg.com Scott Reed (888) 608-5946

Allegiance Staffing

www.allegiancestaffing.com Tom Landry (281) 355-9222

Amcor www.amcor.com/ Geoffrey Wilson (734) 302-6607 AmeriPac www.ameripacinc.com/ Greg Wren (972) 660-6633

ËAPAK Packaging LLC www.apak-pkg.com Jorge Revelo (847) 566-9595 Arrowhead Systems, Inc www.arrowheadsystems.com Marsha Spakowicz (920) 235-5562 Asiapack Ltd www.asiapack.com Valentin Janson (852) 2735-1163 Assemblers Inc. www.assemblers.com Joel Rosenbacher (773) 378-3000 Assemblies Unlimited, Inc. www.assemblies.com Randy Shaw (877) 273-6259

Associated Packaging, Inc. Lynn Jacob (248) 855-0106

Camco Chemical Company www.camco-chem.com/ Adrian Hothem (859) 727-3200

Custom Chemical Corporation www.customchemicalcorp.com David Leamy (864) 595-8872

CCB Packaging www.ccbpackaging.com Brad Canfield (319) 378-0114

CWS Contract Packaging www.cwspackaging.com Justin Parker (607) 334-1497

Challenge Unlimited, Inc www.advancedoutsource solutions.com Steve Brenegan (618) 463-1236

DAMRON Packaging & Logistics Group www.damronplg.com/ Tony Cort (773) 826-6000

Clysar LLC www.clysar.com Joan Current (563) 259-3271

Delkor Systems, Inc. www.delkorsystems.com Dan Altman (651) 348-6700

ËCMG Plastics www.cmgplastics.com Jens Duerr (908) 218-7997

Do-It Corporation www.do-it.com John Deschaine (269) 637-1121

Coregistics www.coregistics.com Eric Wilhelm (855) 849-CORE

Dominion Liquid Technologies www.dltdelivers.com Charlie Cain (513) 272-2824

Bolke-Miller Company www.bolkemiller.com Michael Miller (847) 693-7230

Crest Foods Co., Inc. www.crestfoods.com Gaven Meiners (815) 453-7411

Econo-Pak www.econo-pak.com PJ Wiebel (570) 296-0350

Bonded Pac LLC www.bondedpac.com Scott Carr (704) 716-3572

CRI, Inc. www.crind.org Brandon Casto (715) 726-7822

EMCO Chemical Packaging www.emcochem.com Randy Schwab (847) 689-2200

BPI Packaging LLC www.bpipackaging.net John Dillon (901) 565-8260

Crystal Packaging Inc. www.crystalpackaging.com Dillon Vincent (303) 778-1805

ePac Flexible Packaging www.epacflexibles.com/ Joel Schmidt (844) 373-0136

Bumble Bee Seafoods/Snows www.snows.com Harry Hoffman (609) 884-0440

CTI Packaging & Fulfillment www.ctipack.com Jerry Thompson (847) 968-4855

Everest Packaging www.everestpackaging.com Nancy Tzeng (626) 964-9384

Butler Automatic www.butlerautomatic.com Phil Johnson (508) 923-0544

Cup Pac Packaging, Inc. www.cuppac.com Jodi James (815) 624-7060

Exact Packaging Inc. www.exactpack.com Bennie Hardin (815) 844-5111

BCI Packaging www.bcipackaging.com Jaclyn Norono-Rodriguez (636) 875-5268 Bell-Carter Packaging www.bcpackaging.com Mike Repp (209) 549-5939

Berlin Packaging www.berlinpackaging.com Carole Branchetti (312) 876-9292 Birchwood Contract Manufacturing www.birchwoodcontract.com Shawn Nahan (800) 328-6156 x7959 Bluegrass Packaging Industries, Inc. www.bluegrasspackaging.com Ellen Waddle (502) 425-6442

Cablevey Conveyors www.cablevey.com/ Karl Seidel (641) 673-8451

FasPac Packaging, LP www.faspacllc.com Matt Davis (972) 831-8300

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Membership Directory First Choice Packaging, Inc. www.firstchoicepackaging.com Steve Thomas (866) 700-PACK

ËInfluence Manufacturing www.influancehaircare.com Robin Simpson (336) 348- 1565

FoxconnTechnology Group www.foxconn.com Rolf Henn (804) 328-5267

Innovative Labeling

Frain Group

www.frain.com Mary Woodrick (630) 629-9900

Frazier & Son

www.frazierandson.com Jillian Kniffen (936) 494-4040 GH Guenther Huettlin Manufacturing Inc. www.ghmanufacturing.com Kim Egan (613) 961-8860

Glue Dots International

Solutions www.ilslabels.com/ Kristen Waite (513) 869 0892

ËIntandem Solutions

www.intandemsolutions.org Suzanne Bakiewicz (315) 835-5974

Mahani Enterprises LLC Peter Quercia (973) 665-8333 Manna Foods, LLC www.mannafoods.us Matt Hetrick (717) 675-2262 Maple Mountain Co-Packers www.mmcp.co/ Rob LeBaron (801) 960-3387

Intertape Polymer Corp.

Matrix Packaging Machinery www.matrixpm.com/ Marc Wolf (262) 268-8300

NP Food Service Sales, LLC www.npfss.com NP Food Service Sales LLC (630) 443-1770

Kala Packaging LLC

Matt Pak Inc. www.mattpak.com Jeff Graham (847) 451-4018

Nulogy Corporation www.nulogy.com Wendy Phua (416) 204-0427 Pac Contract Services Michael Treb (420) 202-4000

www.itape.com James ApapBologna (877) 318-5752

Golden West Packaging Fulfillment Chuck Roberts (708)308-5170

Keller Logistics Group www.kellerlogistics.com Bryan Keller (419) 782-6583

Maverick Packaging, Inc. www.maverickpackaginginc. com/ DeAnn Devenney (574) 264-2891

Goodwill Industries of Southern Piedmont www.goodwillsp.org/ Brian Otto (704) 916-1642

Kleen Concepts www.kleen-concepts.com Grant Russell (480) 515-5576

Mid-Continent Packaging, Inc. www.midcontinentpkg.com Steven Epstein (580) 234-5200

Komplete Packaging Service www.kpak.com M. Kamal (214) 252-8105

Minimus Products LLC www.minimusproducts.biz Paul Shrater (805) 376-6352

ËKO-Pack Inc. www.kopack.us Payton LaCivita (408) 702-1134

Miracle CS Industries www.miraclecsindustries.com/ Marcus Clark-Scott (585) 300-5527

Lako Tool & Manufacturing, Inc. www.lakotool.com John Bialecki (419) 662-5256

ËMorrison Container Handling Solutions www.morrison-chs.com Dustin Lee (708) 756-6660

Landaal Packaging Systems www.landaal.com/ Steve Landaal (800) 616-6619

Mother Trail, LLC David Smidt (505) 235-2443

Hitachi America, Ltd. www.hitachi-america.us/ice/ marking-and-coding Tina Aida (866)583-0048 IBR Packaging LLC www.ibrpackaging.com/ Dave Christensen (888) 829-6509 Industrial Packaging www.industrialpackaging.com Jarrod Dizazzo (508) 499-1600

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Namar Foods www.namar.com Renee Rivera (562) 531-2744

Nercon Eng. & Mfg., Inc. www.nerconconveyors.com Thomas Luft (844) 293-2814

Integrated Re-Pack & Logistics www.integratedrepack.com Dennis Monday (540) 434-9102

www.withkala.com Nikki Johnson (314) 941-1674

Herkimer Industries www.herkimerindustries.com Scott Riffle (315) 574-7631

Multi-Pack Solutions www.multipacksolutions.com Keith Wyatt (330) 289-9736

Massman Automation Designs, LLC www.massmanllc.com/ Mark Suchy (320) 554-3611

www.gluedots.com Kim Dunn (262)814-8500

GreenSeed Contract Packaging www.greenseedcp.com Molly Meloy (630) 761-8544

MSW Packaging www.mswpackaging.com Chris Nutley (812) 537-2331

Liquipak Corporation www.liquipak.com Robert Smith (989) 463-5510

MSI Express www.msiexpress.com Charles Weinberg (219) 764-1521

Packaging Unlimited www.packagingunlimited.com Patrick Broderick (513) 236-5807 PacknFresh, LLC www.packnfresh.com Tariq Usmani (888) 703-7374 PacMoore Products, Inc. www.pacmoore.com Taylor Moore (219) 932-2666 Paket Corporation www.paketcorp.com Mark O’Malley (773) 221-7300 Pak Technologies, Inc. www.paktech.com/ David Greif (414)3713189 Peckham, Inc. www.peckham.org/SocialEnterprises/ManufacturingServices.aspx David Allen (517) 316-4285

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Peoria Production Shop www.peoriapros.com Dan Laturno (309) 683-0700

Provident Marketing www.providentmktg.com Michael Reed (215) 364-0211

Select Brands, LLC. www.select-brands.net/ Tuffer Weidner (417) 863-0404

The Happy Orchard www.thehappyorchard.com/ Collette Mahmood (201) 559-5635

Performance Packaging,Inc. www.perfpack.com Scott Ruetz (419) 478-8805

Quality Co-Pak www.qualityco-pak.com David Dixon (480) 751-9715

Sigma Services Corporation www.sigmasvs.com Liz Nesbit (847) 388-3040

Performance Packaging of Nevada, LLC www.pplv.co Robert Reinders (702) 240-3457

Quality Packaging / Pro Pac www.qualpac.com Dawna Whitner (888) 318-0083

SourceAmerica www.sourceamerica.org David Brent (571) 421-8716

ËThe Lion Brewery www.lionbrewery.com/ contractbrewing Andrew Van Blargan (888) 295-2337

Quality Packaging Specialists International www.qpsiusa.com Nick Johnson (609) 239-0503

South Atlantic Packaging www.southatlanticpackaging. com Pat Grantham (336) 774-3122

Ralph Moyle, Inc. www.ralphmoyle.com Aaron Talaga (269) 657-2591

Ë Spartech www.spartechcom Scot MacGillivray (800) 667-4338

REO Processing Inc Gregg Frazier (304) 464-5444

Spec Enterprise www.specenterprise.com Dale Jenks (480) 828-2976

Plastic Packaging

Technologies, LLC www.plaspack.com Melissa Rishkofski (704) 506-7938

Plex Systems

www.plex.com JoAnna Carroll (248) 391-8001

PLZ Aeroscience www.plzaeroscience.com Rommel Miranda (630) 386-7029

PMI Cartoning, Inc.

www.pmicartoning.com Branko Vukotic (847) 437-1427

Polypack, Inc. www.polypack.com Brian McCann (727) 578-5000 Premier Packaging www.premierpkg.com Candice Olson (562) 802-2765

Printpack www.printpack.com Scott Mitchell (404) 691-5830 Priority Plastics, Inc. Scott Wood (260) 726-7000 ProAmpac www.ampaconline.com Millie Nu_o (513) 671-1777 Protech Nutra, Inc. www.protechnutra.com/ Manuel Nunez (727) 466-0770

RGA Enterprises, Inc. www.rgaenterprises.com Tom Zenge (704) 398-0487

Roberts PolyPro Inc. www.robertspolypro.com/ Roy Tetreault (704) 588-1794 Ronchi America, LLC Tim Wilson (678) 398-7413 RPI Graphic Data Solutions www.rpigraphic.com Karen Rellar (513) 471-4040 RRP Packaging www.rrp-mfg.com Jeff Freiburger (419) 666-6119 Ruspak Corporation www.ruspak.com Paul Mierzwa (315) 946-9777

Scholle IPN www.scholle.com Peter Messacar (708) 836-3640

Sterling Contract Packaging, Inc. www.sterlingcpi.com Michael Collins (864) 587-5511 SternMaid America LLC www.sternMaid-America.com Rainer Schindler (630) 270-1100 Steuart Custom Manufacturing www.minn-pack.com Ben Steuart (507) 272-8715 Stik-Pak Solutions, Inc. www.stikpaksolutions.com/ Cameron Leonard (540) 482-0405

ËThe Platinum Packaging Group www.platinumpkggroup.com Nick Lowe (562) 630-6700 The Raymond Hadley Corp. www.raymondhadley.com/ Elliot Dutra (607) 589-4415

TNA North America Inc. www.tnasolutions.com Shayne De La Force (972) 462-6500 Triangle Package Machinery Co. www.trianglepackage.com Kim Magon-Haller (773) 889-0220 TricorBraun www.tricorbraun.com Suzanne Fenton (314) 569-3633 Tripack LLC Matt Linz (513) 248-1255 Trividia Manufacturing Solutions www.trividiams.com Jen Cusick (603) 707-5140 Troystar Food Packaging Justin Spiegelhoff (262) 763-9434

Sunflex Packagers, Inc. www.sunflexpackagers.com Sandy Patel (908) 709-1500

U.S. Packaging LLC www.uspackagingllc.com Rick Geiger (262) 642-6560 Ext. 101

Tadbik www.tadbik.com Karen Frisch (973) 882-9595

UBIX Processing www.ubixprocessing.com Bruce Bernstein (719)310-0943

Taipak Enterprises Ltd. www.taipakconverting.com Joey Lin (604) 522-1218

Universal Pure, LLC www.universalpure.com/ Tom Woodward (678) 840-1500

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Membership Directory Universal Robots www.universal-robots.com Nathan Koontz (844) 462-6268

US Natural Group www.usnaturalgroup.com/ Hakan Johanson (727) 286-3000

Valley Food Systems www.valleyfoods.com Jeff Valley (800) 228-4053

Viking Masek Global Packaging Technologies www.vikingmasek.com/ Danielle Ohl (920) 564-5051 Visstun www.visstuncups.com Paula Piano (800) 401-2910 Wannemacher Tool Logistics www.wanntl.com/ Andy Wannemacher (419) 225-9060 WePackItAll www.wepackitall.com Vanessa Jimenez (626) 301-9214 We Pack Logistics, LP www.wepack.com Brandon Hoog (888) 9WE-PACK Western Innovations, Inc. www.westerninnovationsin.com Jerry Jernigan (303) 307-4500 White Mountain Imaging www.wmi-t2.com Rick MacDonald (603) 228-5222 World Contract Packaging www.worldcontractpack.com Barb Tillery (815) 624-6501 Xpress 360 Inc. www.xpress-360.com Larry Simpson (317) 506-7117

Zacros America, Inc. www.zacrosamerica.com Zacros Customer Service (800) 890-1183 ZoRoCo Packaging Inc. www.ZoRoCoPackaging.com Jeff Floyd (208) 475-1864

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New Products

Rapid Contact Tracing Digital capability allows co-packers and manufacturers to track employees in real time and be prepared in the event of a potential COVID-19 infection within a production site Can generate reports by shift, specific time period, and production line Tracks contacts while preserving employee privacy Nulogy, www.nulogy.com

Void-Fill Machine FillPak Trident™ machine for paper-based void fill features a fill rate of 96 in./sec Offers approximately 20% labor savings versus packing with plastic airbags Features HMI touchscreen and five operator modes and can be automated or user-controlled Ranpak, www.ranpak.com

Home, Personal Care Bottles

Stock portfolio includes eight new items

Includes four PET and four HDPE bottles, in 3- to 32-oz and 2- to 32-oz sizes, respectively, in various shapes

Can be produced in multiple colors, PCR grades, and bio-based resins, based on availability Amcor, www.amcor.com

Recyclable Stand-Up Pouches Portfolio of sustainable flexible stand-up pouches now includes How2Recycle-labeled option for in-store drop-off Available in barrier and non-barrier options; FDA-compliant for direct food contact Features 100% recyclable Fresh-Lock® Multiplex® zipper with audible-tactile locking Glenroy Inc., https://glenroy.com/

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RECONFIGURE with

New Products

modular Conveyor

rPET Folding Carton Klearfold® RPET100 100% PCR plastic folding carton is said to be the first of its kind Made possible via supplier’s vertical integration of custom extruders and locally sourced PCR PET waste HLP Klearfold, www.hlpklearfold.com

• Expansion Flexibility: Minimize disruption of production time with easily reconfigured conveyor • Product Flexibility: Quickly introduce new products into production • Process Flexibility: Modular conveyor systems with short lead times

Case/Pallet Labeling Production Interface

• Cost Flexibility: Quote solutions with options for every project blueprint

2200 Production Interface for the 2200 Series print-and-apply case and pallet labeling system allows labels to be stored en masse at printer level with limited image editing capabilities Large touchscreen shows exactly how variable content will appear on the printed label Engineered to accelerate changeovers, make case and pallet labeling less resource-intensive to manage, and eliminate incorrect label selection Markem-Imaje, www.markem-imaje.com

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CREATIVE PACKAGING solutions www.cpsolutions.com

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PEORIA PRODUCTION SHOP www.peoriapros.com

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DO-IT CORPORATION www.do-it.com

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PROSYS INNOVATIVE PACKAGING EQUIP. www.prosysfill.com

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GLUE DOTS INTERNATIONAL IBC www.gluedots.com HEAT AND CONTROL www.heatandcontrol.com

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MORRISON CONTAINER HANDLING SOLUTIONS www.morrisson-chs.com

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NERCON. www.nerconconveyors.com

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R.A JONES & CO. www.rajones.com

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ROBERTS POLYPRO INC. www.robertspolypro.com SIMPLEX FILLER COMPANY www.simplexfiller.com STERLING CONTRACT PACKAGING www.sterlingcpi.com

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