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January 18, 2017
CES- It’s all about the box!
by: EPE USA
Walking through CES is always a kid in the candy store experience for me – mouth wide open with starry eyes and a mind running wild with ideas. Seeing more than a million square feet of products at CES that require packages makes a packaging guy feel like a…
January 10, 2017
How Fortune 500 companies are setting the new standard by opting to establish a packaging SYSTEM
by: EPE USA
In a world where products are sold, returned, refurbished, and resold, packaging is more than a box; it’s a complete ECO System of product handling and transits. Thinking of packaging in terms of a system, denotes that it can be studied and optimized like any other system, right? Let’s do…
December 22, 2016
HO, HO, HO! Give a little HOPE this holiday season!
by: EPE USA
With a little help from the U.S. Postal Service, neither rain, nor snow, will keep Santa Claus from delivering dreams this holiday season. USPS Operation Santa ® is a wonderful program that started in 1912, and since then they have never missed a year. This operation is about catching the…
December 16, 2016
What makes a cantaloupe worth $250? An extraordinary one.
by: EPE USA
Around the world with EPE…Japan Ok, and I’m not kidding, but in Japan you can buy an apple for $100.00. (Seriously, an apple). You can also buy one (1) cantaloupe for $250.00. Yes, it’s a cantaloupe, the big round orange on the inside piece of fruit. So why the…
November 25, 2016
THANKS and GIVING
by: EPE USA
Thanksgiving is not just about the to die for mashed potatoes and gravy made by your favorite Aunt, the beautiful turkey on the table or the pumpkin pie in the oven – it’s much bigger than that. The name of the holiday is what it is supposed to be…
November 15, 2016
The Fine Line Between the Perfect Package and Excessive Packaging
by: EPE USA
Perfect Package vs Excessive Packaging The feeling is all too familiar, you purchase that USB drive, light bulb, or book online and when the package arrives, it’s big enough to house a plasma TV. Excessive packaging has become an epidemic for both online shoppers and retail consumers. So…
November 1, 2016
7 Most Creative DIY Halloween Group Costumes
by: EPE USA
As the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people usher in the winter season with gatherings, costumes, and sweet treats. Halloween is here! Halloween is a holiday filled mystery, magic, and superstitions! Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced so-in). The Celts…
October 24, 2016
Safe Shelf: Optimizing space while increasing product protection.
by: EPE USA
The Technician’s van of today is more of a mobile workstation than simply a delivery or repair truck of the past. Today’s technician vehicles need to be strategically organized to allow for the optimized loading of new products while allowing for recovered customer products to be stored in a safe…
October 20, 2016
Pink-tober
by: EPE USA
It’s Pink-tober, Y’all! This month, an awareness minded consumer can purchase almost anything in pink – from lint brushes and shoelaces to earbuds and Snuggies. Before I get into all the fun stuff, allow me to give you a brief history lesson as to when and how this pink…
October 19, 2016
Hello World, It’s EPE
by: EPE USA
We’re here! Well actually, we’ve been here and there for over forty-five years, but since this is our first EPE blog and I know we need a big opening, I went with “We’re Here!” Who are we? EPE is a worldwide manufacturer that has been providing…