Complete Packaging Solutions
Kitting, Shipping & Fulfillment
We offer comprehensive order fulfillment services by packaging your products, assembling them into kits, and shipping directly to your customers. Even if your items are already packaged, we efficiently combine them into a single SKU and ship them for you, saving you time and resources. Let us streamline your logistics and enhance your supply chain management for optimal efficiency.
Packaging Solutions
Discover our range of packaging and display solutions designed to elevate your brand. We specialize in custom blister packaging, clamshell packaging, thermoformed trays, and versatile plastic packaging options.
Enhance your product visibility with our eye-catching displays, in-store signage, and POP (Point of Purchase) displays. Our solutions not only protect your product but also capture your customers' attention.
Thermoforming
Our advanced thermoforming solutions are tailored for custom-designed packaging that ensures a perfect fit. Thermoforming is a highly cost-effective packaging option, ideal for businesses of all sizes. Its advantages include low tooling costs reducing initial investment, design flexibility for customized shapes, rapid production times for tight deadlines, and scalability for any production size.
Digital Printing & Cutting
Bring your packaging ideas to life in as little as 48 hours with our advanced digital design, printing, and cutting technology. Our streamlined process accelerates the transition from design to approval, allowing you to deliver your product on time in captivating packaging that stands out on shelves.
Kitting & Fulfillment
Let us handle your logistics so you can focus on what you do best. We'll package your products, assemble them into kits, and drop ship them directly to your customers. By partnering with us, you can cut costs and concentrate on your core competencies while we take care of everything else.
Retail Display Assembly
We create captivating retail display packaging and offer complete retail assembly services to make your products stand out from the competition in any retail setting. Our skilled design team will craft custom designs for your approval, and we can get to work on prototyping ahead of production for a seamless transition to market.
Custom Kitting & Packaging
Our kitting process involves bundling individual but related items into a single package, creating a new product unit in a single SKU. Outsourcing your kitting and packaging to a specialized provider like us offers several benefits:
- Efficiency: Streamline your operations with easier tracking, shipping, and fulfillment. Fewer SKUs mean simpler inventory management and faster order processing.
- Cost Savings: Reduce warehousing costs, packaging expenses, and shipping fees by consolidating products.
- Focus on Core Competencies: Free up your resources to concentrate on what you do best, while we handle the logistics.
Using Complete Packaging Solutions for kitting ensures related products are sorted, packaged, and shipped correctly – saving you time and reducing shipping costs.
Imagine your POP (Point of Purchase) display is a mixed SKU floor stand with 10 different components. We’ll assemble enough of each component to create a complete display in an OPF (Overpack Fulfillment), then label each one individually for drop shipping. This removes the hassle of managing multiple inbound materials and staffing labor, simplifying your supply chain and saving you money.
Why choose Complete Packaging Solutions for kitting? It’s simple:
- Organization: Improve your packaging efficiency and simplify your shipping process with streamlined organization.
- Profitability: Create fewer yet more profitable SKUs, making inventory management a breeze.
- Customer Satisfaction: Ensure accurate and timely drop shipments, leading to happier customers.
Fulfillment Services
Our fulfillment services take care of the entire process of preparing your products for retail. We fill your displays with your items, ensuring they are perfectly assembled and ready to catch the attention of customers. During the prototyping phase, our team thoroughly tests the finished retail display packaging for sturdiness, visual appeal, and the perfect fit for your products. Whether you need blister packaging/blister card sealing or complete display fulfillment, we’re here to help!
Product Sealing & Protection
To ensure maximum protection against theft and damage during transit, we offer a variety of sealing methods tailored to your specific needs. Our options include:
- RF (Radio Frequency) Sealing: This method uses electromagnetic energy to generate heat within the packaging materials, creating strong and uniform seals. RF sealing is ideal for products requiring airtight, tamper-evident packaging, offering excellent durability and security.
- Heat Sealing: Heat sealing involves applying heat and pressure to fuse materials together, forming a reliable and airtight seal. This versatile method is suitable for various types of packaging materials and ensures your products are securely enclosed.
- Pressure Sealing: Also known as cold sealing, pressure sealing uses pressure-sensitive adhesives to bond materials without the need for heat. This technique is perfect for heat-sensitive products or situations where quick sealing is required.
Our different sealing options allow us to provide customized solutions for almost any situation. Whether you need robust security, protection for fragile items, or efficient packaging processes, we have the expertise to meet your needs and ensure your products arrive safely at their destination.
Cartoning Services
Let the Complete Packaging Solutions team streamline your packaging process with our expertise in cartoning. We can assist you with your carton design or create it for you, ensuring it’s optimized for use with our cartoning machines. By automating the cartoning process, we help alleviate extra labor costs and provide a level of uniformity that hand assembly cannot achieve.
Our advanced cartoning machines efficiently load your product, glue the top and bottom tabs, and apply lot codes and date codes to your cartons for retail. This means your products are securely packaged, consistently presented, and ready for distribution in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. With our fulfillment services and custom kitting, we offer a complete solution to meet all your packaging needs.
Drop Shipping
Save time and reduce costs by letting us handle your shipping needs. Instead of wasting time by sending products back to your facility, we drop ship them directly to your customers. Need 200 retail displays delivered to 200 different locations? We manage it seamlessly through our automated processes and partnerships with established logistics companies. With our efficient drop shipping solutions, you can focus on your core business while we ensure your products reach their destinations on-time and at a lower cost.
Automated & Streamlined Processes
Leverage our state-of-the-art technology and automated solutions to save time and cut costs. From concept and design to fulfillment and kitting, we utilize cutting-edge digital technology to bring your products to market as efficiently as possible. We can also help your team implement automation to enhance your operations!
Kitting & Fulfillment FAQs
Complete Packaging Solutions is your choice when you need your products packaged properly and then shipped to your customers. It saves your company time and money.
Read our answers to some frequently asked questions about kitting and fulfillment as a packaging solution.
It is a process by which a company like Complete Packaging Solutions assembles individual items into kits, similar to retail displays, and then ships the kits to customers. Essentially, parts and pieces are arranged, packaged, and placed into a kit ahead of shipping the product.
For example, your company sells cosmetics and wants a summer kit for people to take to the beach. You put sunscreen, moisturizer, a towel, suntan lotion, and redness reliever all in one package. A packaging company will place all of these items into a kit that fits your products perfectly. Then we put these items into a display and then ship the displays to your customers.
Companies collect and assemble the various parts of a single SKU and put them together in a larger SKU sold as a single product.
This process benefits your company in several ways, including:
- Streamlining your operations.
- Removes steps in your logistics.
- Gets products to market faster.
- Organizes your inventory better through fewer SKUs.
- Creates beautiful displays for your products.
- Popularizes several products into one package.
- Boosts efficiency and productivity of your fulfillment process.
- Lowers your time to market.
Hiring an expert like Complete Packaging Solutions lets you:
- Focus on your core business model. Logistics should be efficient, but you shouldn’t focus on that as part of your retail business. You need to create fantastic products for your customers.
- Reduce overhead. Save money on storage space you can use for other things, like expanding your operations.
- Adjust workloads. When you have a busy season, like during the winter holidays, kitting and fulfillment companies can adjust work based on the influx of products throughout the year.
- Hire fewer staff. Labor is your largest cost. Save money on hiring new staff by outsourcing your kitting and fulfillment.
- Reduce shipping mistakes. A professional kitting and fulfillment company like Complete Packaging Solutions can reduce shipping mistakes because they are experts.
Complete Packaging Solutions has decades of experience in the packaging industry. We’ve worked with national brands such as L’Oreal, Procter & Gamble, Hasbro, and Hitachi, some of which required retail displays as well as kitting and fulfillment.
Reach out to us or call 765-547-1300 to talk about our kitting and fulfillment services to help your company save money and improve efficiency.
Contact Complete Packaging Solutions
We pride ourselves on personalized attention and world-class customer service. Contact Complete Packaging Solutions for more information about our kitting and fulfillment process. We’ll assemble your products and ship them so you don’t have to!
Thermoformed Packaging FAQs
Complete Packaging Solutions is your choice for superior packaging. Thermoforming represents one option for packaging solutions that our team can handle. Read our answers to some FAQs about thermoforming and thermoformed packaging.
Thermoforming represents a process by which a machine heats a thermoplastic sheet to its softening point before stretching it across a mold to manipulate it into the desired shape before it cools and hardens.
If your packaging needs a custom shape to fit snugly against products, thermoforming offers a great choice.
Thermoformed plastic is also sturdy in that it protects products against nicks and dings during transport.
- Unit dose products, such as medications and drugs.
- Material handling trays that have several items in the same section.
- Gift packs to keep individual items separate.
- Clamshell packaging for food as well as health and beauty products.
- Products that need custom-fit packaging.
- Trays for nurseries for small plants and seedlings.
- Kits with several parts.
- CPG being sold in club stores, like club packaging.
Vacuum forming combines heat and pressure to draw the thermoplastic sheets into the final configuration before it cools. The sheet is placed over a mold, and the vacuumed air moves it into the shape we need.
Pressure forming uses vacuum air along with additional pressure to form more detailed shapes in your packaging.
- Conversation
- Design
- Material Selection
- Tooling
- Prototyping
- Thermoforming
- Trimming and Die-Cutting
- Shipping
Conversation is the start of this process. Your chosen packaging solutions company should have detailed conversations with you, including asking questions about your requirements and standards while giving you recommendations on the material and color options and a timeframe for completion.
Design requires input from all sides. Most companies use CAD, or computer-aided design, to create a prototype from precise measurements.
Material selection is an important step. In general, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the plastic of choice for thermoforming. This material is rigid and recyclable. PET also comes in many thicknesses and can be colored any way you want, including transparent.
Prototyping creates a physical copy. Before we mass-produce your packaging, we ensure all measurements meet your specifications. This is probably the most important step aside from the CAD process.
Tooling helps your packaging take shape. This part of the process is when your packaging solutions company turns a design into a mold over which the thermoformed packaging will stretch.
Let the thermoforming begin! Once we verify the prototype fits perfectly, we begin mass production of your thermoformed packaging.
Trimming and die-cutting each piece. Remember, your packages start as a sheet of plastic. Once the sheet receives its shape and cools, we trim the sheets so they fit into boxes for shipping.
Shipping to your place. The final step is that we ship the packaging to your place so you can fit them around your products. We can ship items for you as part of our kitting and fulfillment service.
- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the most common choice for a wide range of industries.
- High-impact polystyrene (HIPS) for very pliable food packaging.
- Acrylonitrile styrene butadiene (ABS) is a very rigid, sturdy plastic with great resistance to impacts, chemicals, and UV light.
This type of plastic packaging minimizes movement of components. Thermoformed trays come in handy for medical components, kits, gift packs, food, parts that require assembly (like for the automotive industry), and packaging large quantities of individual items in the same box.
Thermoformed trays, when combined with the right sealing technique (like heat sealing and RF sealing), keep items safe and secure during shipping and handling to keep them intact and in place. This is particularly important when you want to showcase some or all of the products in clear packaging so customers can see your products clearly before choosing to purchase them.
For example, you sell a meal-kit that has several different components that people can assemble at home. The meal kit includes several colorful fruits and vegetables to make a salad. It’s important to keep the ingredients separate until assembly to prevent spoilage while giving your products a better chance of staying fresh during refrigeration.
This type of packaging keeps your food fresher by offering sturdiness and sealing your products inside the package. Thermoformed food packaging comes down the line horizontally, then your machines put food inside, and then the seal comes down on top of it to keep foods safe inside.
When you use this type of packaging for foods, you have the potential to reduce damage during shipping while increasing shelf life. This is particularly true for perishable foods that require refrigeration or special handling requirements.
Think clamshells and clear plastic packaging that protects food while maintaining visibility.
When you choose thermoformed packaging for your products, you realize several benefits, including:
- Protecting your products. This type of packaging is durable for protection during shipping and logistics. Numerous sealing options, including clamshell and heat sealing, can extend shelf life while resisting tampering.
- Cost-effectiveness. This kind of packaging can save you up to 15% on costs compared to injection molding techniques.
- Sustainability. PET is recyclable, and consumers are becoming more and more conscious of products that are better for the environment.
- Design options. Thermoformed packaging provides companies with endless creative options for CPG products on the shelf. You have colors, labels, and branding that make products stand out from others.
Your company has several reasons to invest in this type of packaging.
- Low tooling costs compared to injection molding. Thermoforming requires less annual volume, as well.
- Better efficiency due to a production-line format that maintains a continuous feed from start to finish.
- High speed for just-in-time (JIT) production when you need packaging fast to reduce storage costs and improve time to market.
- Easier to customize through computer-aided design.
- Weight-related savings versus other packaging styles to save on shipping costs.
- Readily available materials to reduce supply chain disruptions.
- Customizable to adapt to the needs of several products or production runs.
- Extensive choices for shapes, sizes, and even textures.
Complete Packaging Solutions has decades of experience in the packaging industry. We’ve worked with national brands such as L’Oreal, Procter & Gamble, Hasbro, and Hitachi, some of which required thermoformed packaging for their products.
Reach out to us or call 765-547-1300 to talk about our full-service thermoformed packaging to take your products and efficiency to new levels.