When Do You Need A Contract Packager

You should talk to a contract packager when:

• Your packaging volume under or over employs your own packaging lines, either short or long term.
• There’s a specific, short-term requirement that may be better served by specific packaging experience or equipment you don’t have.
• There’s a short run for a new product test, gift pack and so forth which may otherwise require the investment in new equipment.
• Promoting your product with increasingly popular marketing weapons of nonstandard packaging or promotional inserts requires special machinery or labor intensive work.
• The pressure of new business or deadlines creates a heavy, short-term workload for which you require experienced help to supplement the efforts of in-house staff.
• A product may more economically be shipped in bulk to a distant market, then unit packed locally.
• New packaging forms unfamiliar to your staff and equipment may be specified.
• There is no available in-house equipment or expertise for a particular job.
• The plant is closing for maintenance or faced with a labor availability problem.
• There’s a warehouse full of a product that needs reworking to make it salable.
• A new package form is to be market tested before general introduction.
• The company is faced with a high investment to meet regulatory and environmental compliance.