Packaging powdered products presents unique challenges that require careful planning to maintain product integrity, prevent contamination, and ensure a seamless user experience. Selecting the right materials and design is critical to the success of the packaging. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!