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Nashville Wraps Spring Packaging Made in the USA

Pretty Petals Collection

Spring has sprung at Nashville Wraps, and we have five new Green Way® paper shopping bag designs, all made here in the USA.

You can see all our Spring Collections online or request our Spring 2012 Catalog.

Pretty Petals

Ideal for gift shops and boutiques, our 100% Recycled Pretty Petals paper shopping bags will look great right through Mother’s Day. Printed on white kraft paper with a beautiful pink and green floral design, this… Read More

Salazar Packaging Appointed Distributor for Expandos Packaging Product Line

Shipping using Expandos

Last year, I wrote a blog post about this unique, green void fill option and I referred to it as “perhaps the best, loose, void fill option, ever.” That was not a wild exaggeration. After months of evaluation, we are still convinced it handles some applications better than most other currently available products.

Why It Works so Well

Its unusual shape and configuration help it to support heavy, fragile items extremely well. Expandos’ serrated pyramidal design helps the loose pieces… Read More

The Internet Makes It Easier

NewXelaPack

­­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

How to Make Tissue Paper Flowers

Tissue Paper Flower

Looking for a fun, easy and inexpensive way to dress up a package or store window display? Look no further than tissue paper flowers. They resemble a cross between a carnation and a peony when the ends are rounded. If you make pointed ends, you can create a chrysanthemum or dahlia look. Learn how to make these adorable tissue flowers in the video below.

Wedding and party planners love them, and they are darling at baby showers with Read More

Custom-Branded Shipper Envelopes in Five Easy Steps

custom printed mailers - two colors on white and one PMS color on Kraft

“Is it available with my logo on it?” That is a common request we get from customers who understand the value of having their secondary packaging custom printed with their name, logo or message on it. It makes a memorable and positive first impression to customers and reinforces your other marketing and branding efforts.

We understand that on some products it can be difficult and/or costly, but on many of the products we offer it could not be any easier.… Read More

For smart and chic retailers, recycled = premium

Tulsack-Versa-Delica-lowrez

Have you noticed those stylish shopping bags that up-market department stores lavish on their customers? They’re a far cry from the plastic bags offered by the big-box retailers, and they are clearly not an inexpensive line item in the operating budget of a Nordstrom or Macys. Shoppers at these retailer locations have come to expect quality shopping bags as part of the shopping experience. In fact, some retailers’ shopping bags are so nice that shoppers use them for other purposes,… Read More

A Green Packaging Solution to Eliminate Box Flap Quarter Folding

no quarter folding square

It easily fits into your hand and weighs less that an ounce but is in our opinion a legitimate sustainable packaging innovation because it extends box life and enables boxes to be reused. It is inexpensive and can itself be reused over and over again, thus saving countless boxes and, yes, saving trees. It is the Globe Guard® Reusable Box Sealer™ and it also ends a somewhat crude and very wasteful practice of quarter folding the top flaps of… Read More

New Green Way® Eco Shreds from Nashville Wraps

Eco Shred

With the holidays coming up, we want to help you be eco-friendly in your gift giving. That is why we are excited to introduce our new Eco Shreds, made from 100% recycled paper using 100% Green Hydropower. They are part of our Green Way® brand of natural, recycled and sustainable packaging products.

Available in our most popular colors, Eco Shred is an accordion design and works great in offering support to gift baskets and boxes. They come in… Read More

Innovative grocers are adding extra green to the produce aisle

Crown-Poly produce bags

The produce department of any supermarket is one of those places where one cannot help but feel in touch with planet Earth. You might be just paces from the cleaning products aisle where chemicals of all types are beautifully merchandised, but in the produce department you’re surrounded by the bounty of many American states and foreign countries. You pick out a couple of peaches, tear off a produce bag, and add them to your basket. Sounds perfect, doesn’t it?

But… Read More

Natural Water-Resistant Paper Boxes

Distant Village Water Resistant Paper Box1

Water-Resistant, Meet Sustainable

Water-resistant paper packaging is essential for many situations. Over the years, clients in various industries had requested premium water-resistant paper packaging that is sustainable and eco-friendly. There are various situations where water-resistant packaging is essential — cold/chilled, refrigerated, frozen, wet, powder, bakery and more. Traditional packaging companies have been offering water-resistant packaging for years, but they all missed the mark on sustainable fundamentals.

Necessity Is the Mother of Innovation

So, off to the labs went DistantRead More

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