This was originally published in SWFL Business Today’s September 2024 Manufacturing Issue. We all know that paper manufacturing requires wood from trees, and water from lakes and streams, so maintaining the health of these resources is vital to the survival of the industry. Since the 1960s, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been staples in the manufacturing of paper products. …
We’ll be exhibiting at the Baseball Trade Show in San Diego from Monday, December 9 through Wednesday, December 11, 2019. If you’re interested in custom-printed deli paper, sandwich wrap, basket liners, or other custom-printed food packaging for your baseball team, food concession, or stadium, come visit us in person at booth #1034 for special baseball pricing. If you don’t see …
We’re going greener by packaging custom-printed sheets in recyclable cardboard boxes only, skipping the plastic wrap.
Want to know how modern paper is made? This video follows paper’s journey from sustainable forests all the way to finished product.
Do you want to print a photograph on food packaging, like sandwich wrap or deli paper? There are two reasons why this is hard: Printing on food paper usually means restricting yourself to one or two ink colors. Even if you could use four inks to make blends the way an inkjet or color laser printer does, precisely lining up …
CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Custom Packaging & Products donated custom-printed basket liners for the 13th annual Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. The four-day festival, which helped raise more than $2 million for the Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, was attended by 60,000 people. “The owner and chef of Tongue & Cheek, Jamie DeRosa, contacted us …
Have you ever wondered what makes an ink safe for use on food packaging? What stops a company from using a toxic chemical that could leech into your food? It stands to reason that an ink containing ingredients obviously unsafe to consume, like lead, should not be considered food safe. But who decides which ingredients are safe? A food-safe ink …
Custom-printed food packaging comes in different shapes and sizes for different applications. When trying to determine the thickness of the deli paper you need, it helps to decide what the paper will need to stand up to. For example, our lightweight sheets use 20 lb stock (see How Thick Is Custom-Printed Food Paper? for more details about basis weight). These …
Some paper is thicker than others. So how do you make a comparison when discussing different thicknesses? There are two common systems paper makers and printers use: grammage and basis weight. Grammage Grammage measures the number of grams per square meter of paper. Typical office paper, for example, weighs about 80 grams per square meter. Sometimes this is abbreviated 80 …
CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Custom Packaging & Products has hired Drew Chicone as Director of Sales and Marketing. Chicone’s responsibilities will include speaking to clients about their custom-printed food packaging needs, as well as planning, coordinating, and implementing marketing strategies to bring in new business. Chicone was born and raised in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where he …