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From the Heritage Packaging team
Military-Grade Packaging: Precision Solutions for Critical Applications
Heritage Packaging products are used in operational rations programs as activation mechanisms/pull tabs and primary food packages for the UGR-E program, to store refurbished firearms and other weaponry, ship weaponry and other equipment overseas, and to contain anti-chemical warfare items.
Handheld Heat Sealers Vs. Heat Seal Machines
Learn the essentials of handheld heat sealers and how they compare to larger heat seal machines. Ideal for businesses navigating small-batch sealing or custom packaging needs, this guide dives into the practical uses, advantages, and limitations of each option.
A Day in the Life of our Quality Control Team
During a job setup, production workers provide the Quality Control team with a first piece. Quality will then perform a first-piece inspection against a quality standard. Only upon approval may the full production run begin.
Your Project Launch Checklist
With such a wide array of materials, processes, and customizations available to our customers, we have a lot to consider while guiding customers to the appropriate solution.
What Does Hermetic Mean?
Our Favorite Finishing Option: Fitments
All About Flexible Barrier Materials
One of the most critical elements of a flexible packaging project is being sure the right material is selected. This article goes in-depth on the different options, use-cases, and more.
The Women of Heritage Packaging Celebrate Barbie!
At Heritage Packaging, we’re proud to employ over 20 women who help make us a successful business. From fabricators and machine operators to quality control, packaging engineers, marketers, designers, accountants, administrators, support staff, the CFO, business co-owner, and more- there is so much opportunity for females in our typically male-dominated industry.
Flexible Packaging for Food: More Than Just Retail
Not all flexible packaging for food is created equal. We go in-depth into how Heritage Packaging ensures the highest quality solutions to food packaging needs. Meeting all regulations is where it starts, but our commitment is to providing the safest and most effective packaging solutions possible. At Heritage Packaging we are best equipped to provide food packaging for military rations, interplant transport, institutional use, and secondary food packaging.
Walk & Talk: C-130 Gas Path Covers
C-130's are specialized aircraft with manufacturer requirements in place to ensure warranties are honored. Exhaust and intake covers and kits, manufactured exclusively by Heritage Packaging, allow the aircraft to be idle and still keep the warranty intact. Catch up with our CEO Bill Smith as he walks through the plant and answers some questions about this unique product offering.
The Difference Between BiB & B-I-B
While BiB and B-I-B look and sound similar, they are two completely different products, and it’s essential to know which is needed for your application to avoid confusion, wasted time, and packaging products that don’t meet your application’s needs.
Biomedical Packaging Features
Although Heritage Packaging serves countless industries, we find that our capabilities are particularly well suited to benefit the biomedical industry. This specific field gives us a great opportunity to show off a number of finishing and fitment options for our flexible packaging products. Not a part of the bioscience or medical industries? No problem! This article will give you a great idea of the many options you have for your own packaging project.
Are Your Heat Seals Hermetic?
Heat seals and flexible packaging go hand-in-hand. They are inseparable, which is exactly what you want your heat seal to be. The integrity of your packaging product is critical. Although some applications don’t require an airtight hermetic seal, most that we work on do. We find ourselves redoing products done elsewhere that didn’t live up to the standards customers expect. We go in-depth on the what, why, and how of hermetic heat seals in this blog.
Quality Assurance at Heritage Packaging
The flexible packaging products that we manufacture have countless uses. Each use is unique and important. It's up to our team to make sure that the products that come off of our line are perfect. Not just great - perfect. Our Quality Assurance team will walk you through the process of how they ensure everything that leaves our doors is done in accordance with the job’s specifications.
2022: Our Year in Review
Where has the time gone? As we put a bow on 2022 we wanted to take a look back at the year and all of the incredible projects we had the privilege to work on. Oh, and we have a video of Santa you’ll probably want to take a look at.
How It’s Made: Flexible Packaging for Block Cheese
Did you know that before cheese hits store shelves it needs to be aged safely while still in large block form? Our specialty flat bags with degassing valves are made specifically to meet this need. Walk through the manufacturing process with us as we show off the capabilities of one of our in-house pouch and liner machines. Turns out flexible packaging is a main ingredient in that aged cheddar sitting in your fridge!
Packaging Nightmares
It’s Halloween, so it seemed only fitting to cover a scary subject matter. In 3+ decades of flexible packaging we have seen our share of packages-gone-wrong. We take pride in ensuring a package works as intended from the moment it comes off the line. This can only be accomplished with a thorough understanding of your product, it’s intended use, and every other detail. Join us for this spooky tale of some flexible packaging nightmares!
Everything There Is to Know About Flexible Packaging
The packaging industry is vast. Vast, nuanced, niched, and sometimes complicated. With more than 3 decades under our belt, we’ve dedicated ourselves to helping you navigate the industry to help your business thrive. Learn with us as we recap the basics of flexible packaging and answer the question, “Why use flexible packaging in the first place?”
Our New Endeavor—Education
Since 1990, businesses and organizations have come to us for specialized flexible barrier-packaging solutions that don’t exist on store shelves. From birthing tub liners to birdseed bags; from ice cream-flavoring storage liners to crypt liners; and from pest eradication enclosures to UGR-E bags, we’ve developed flexible packaging solutions for a diverse range of industries that have helped shape our expertise.