Author Archives: Anthony Gentile

Xela Pack Joins The Greening of Detroit for Earth Day 2012

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Xela Pack has been producing environmentally conscious packaging since 1987, and every day we work toward becoming more environmentally conscious and friendly in our everyday business. We also try to support our community whenever possible. In the past, we have made presentations to local schools about the environment, hosted field trips at our facility for local students and have donated to many groups within Michigan and beyond. This year, for Earth Day, we took part in a great movement happening … Read More

Xela Pack’s Pill & Powder Packaging

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Xela Pack recently exhibited at the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA. It was a great show with tons of great products new and old, and if it is any sign of things to come in the natural products market, I think the future is very bright. Consumers are becoming more aware of their options each year, and it seems as though they are starting to care more about the companies they are buying from, and not just the … Read More

Sample Packaging Success Through Innovative Distribution

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At Xela Pack, we occasionally ask our customers to contribute by giving us testimonials about our packaging, or by answering questionnaires that help us better understand and serve them. One thing I’ve noticed is that the companies that profess the greatest enthusiasm for our packaging are also usually the ones that do the most creative things with the samples we provide.

This summer, Xela Pack produced samples for Pure Science and their Jack Black Authentic and Original product line. The … Read More

The Internet Makes It Easier

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­­When we started producing environmentally conscious packaging in 1987, there was no public internet. The first website was launched in 1991, but even then almost nobody had web browsers, so nobody really heard that tree fall in the woods. In 1995, the internet started to take off with the mainstream public, and somewhere around 1997/1998 things really got cooking. Xela Pack was 10 years old at that point.

Back then, everything was done by phone and mail (snail mail as … Read More

Xela Pack Knows the Order of the R’s

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There’s a reason why “Reduce” is the first of the three R’s. From children’s books to the top environmental experts, the answer is the same: Reducing the amount of waste we produce is the best way to help the environment. At Xela Pack, we focus on all three R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. But we understand the reason they are in that order, and, different than other companies, we are very strong in our commitment to the reduction of materials … Read More

Who is Xela Pack?

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“So what’s environmentally conscious about Xela Pack?” It’s a question I get all the time. Sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start, because so many people have so many ideas about what environmental consciousness really means. At Xela Pack, we consider the impact of everything we do. We’ve been at this for a while now.

My family has been in the packaging business for more than 40 years with Gentile Packaging Machinery, our parent company, which still exists today … Read More

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