At the recent International Housewares Show, I had several conversations with a number of people who wanted to talk about the “bad” packaging they are getting from their foreign suppliers. Well over 90% of all house ware products we all buy and use are manufactured and packaged overseas, which typically results in substantial savings for [...]

January may be known for “white sales” offering the year’s best prices on soft goods such as bedding, sheets and towels. But in January at Salazar Packaging, we like to offer the best pricing you are likely to see in 2012 by offering our customers a “green sale” with a 20% discount on ALL of [...]

Evertune is a company that has received a lot of well-deserved applause for creating an innovation that is changing the world of music. The company’s lead product, the award-winning Evertune guitar bridge, is able to keep a guitar in perfect tune forever. Most recently, they were featured on CNN, and you can see the Evertune [...]

Several months ago I wrote a post for Packaging Digest talking about the importance of being “eco obvious”. Consumers’ perspectives aren’t always fair or accurate; they don’t always read labels so utilizing products that are easily and quickly recognized as eco friendly is vitally important. Eco Obvious Sustainable Packaging Few products rate as high as [...]

One of the most unique forms of interior/protective packaging we offer is an incredibly green molded pulp product, rightly named “Eco-Flex”. What is truly exciting is our ability to utilize it for multiple uses within a single application, saving our customers space, money and costs resulting from shipment damage. Glass Is Green but Vulnerable in [...]

Though the above title may sound like yet another edition of the Star Wars series, this post is actually about the number of very good companies that are now producing “stock” molded pulp products. In the past the words stock and pulp were never used in the same sentence unless you were talking about egg [...]