PakTech Blog

How PakTech’s Partners Are Helping Us Recycle And You Can Too

By PakTech
We at PakTech are proud of our recycling program. Alongside with our 100% recycled plastic packaging solutions, the recycling program supports our commitment to sustainability. These initiatives have helped us repurpose the equivalent of over half a billion (644,203,483 to be exact) discarded milk jugs, keeping roughly 83 million pounds of plastic out of the waste stream. This is plastic that wasn’t sent to a landfill (or the ocean), but was instead repurposed, often multiple times!
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UK INSIGHT: Constantly Innovating to Meet Your Sustainable and Practical Needs

By PakTech
Since its very beginnings, PakTech has constantly evolved and innovated to meet our clients’ everchanging needs. Our origins are humble, having started out in 1983 as a small job shop that designed and produced moulds at request. Now, PakTech handles are found across the globe and are helping more and more businesses to make the most sustainable choice for secondary packaging. Here, we will hear from Tom Lucas from West Berkshire Brewery, on why they choose our PakTech packaging solutions to handle their products.
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Financing Now Available on All PakTech Applicators

By PakTech
PakTech is proud to announce our new partnership with GreatAmerica Financial Services to offer financing options on the sale of all PakTech Applicators.
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Dollars and Sense - The Financial Case for PakTech Handles

By PakTech
Maybe we’re biased, but we think there are a LOT of great reasons to package with PakTech handles. Whether it’s to help your company achieve its sustainability goals, sell more product in bulk, or take advantage of the cool colors that show off your stylish containers, there are many reasons why PakTech handles are the right choice for many brands. But at the end of the day, there’s one question everybody has to ask:
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UK INSIGHT: FOUR TRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE THE UK PACKAGING INDUSTRY IN 2021 AND BEYOND

By PakTech
Like most consumer goods industries, the UK packaging industry is constantly evolving, bringing with it new trends that are shaping the industry as a whole. Consumer demands for certain packaging features or characteristics emerge from widely differing needs. With social media such an integral part of our everyday lives today, consumers purchasing habits are being influenced by packaging aesthetics perhaps more so than ever before. Simultaneously, other demands have emerged from more acute needs such as stringent hygiene standards during the ongoing global pandemic.
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Packaging the Future – CBD Beverages with Ablis

By PakTech
As cannabis continues to be legalized across the nation, there’s been a trend rising along with it: cannabidiols, AKA CBD. Chiefly derived from the hemp plant, CBD is a non-psychoactive substance with many purported effects, such as pain relief and anti-inflammatory properties.
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Applicators In Action – What To Expect with PakTech Applicators

By PakTech
For most businesses, PakTech handles mean more than a new way to package multi-packs of juice, beer, cider, soda, and other consumer products. It means operational changes. It means PakTech Applicators, machines specially designed to integrate with existing bottling or canning lines and apply PakTech handles smoothly and efficiently.
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Introducing Our GIF Series – Smart, Sustainable and Simple: PakTech vs. Alternative Packaging Solutions

By PakTech
Since the onset of the COVID crisis, one industry has remained resilient as people are spending more time than ever inside their own homes: the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. FMCG businesses which are highly reliant on packaging still face the same dilemma – how can they choose a packaging solution with the highest sustainability performance without having to compromise on the practical business needs? To help businesses choose the best packaging solution that performs exceptionally on both criteria, PakTech has prepared a series of GIFs that illustrate what makes our smart, sustainable and simple packaging the preferred solution when compared to others available in market – cardboard, plastic film and shrink wrap, plastic rings and natural/bio-fibre packaging.
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PakTech Announces Membership in U.S. Plastics Pact to Advance Circular Economy for Plastic

By PakTech
PakTech announces participation in the U.S. Plastics Pact, a multi-sector public-private collaborative aimed at creating a circular economy for plastics in the U.S. As one of the founding organizations, PakTech is at the forefront of creating a solutions-driven system to better reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics. Our aim is to create a more efficient and just economy that keeps plastic in the economy and out of the environment.
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PakTech Down Under with Pirate Life Brewing

By PakTech
Since its founding in 2014, Pirate Life Brewing has experienced incredible growth. From 600,000 litres in its first full year of operation to an 11 million litres of total capacity today, the South Australian brewery has gone further and faster than many of its peers. Add in Top 5 spots at the GABS Hottest 100 Australian Beers as early as 2015, and 15 medals at last year’s Australian International Beer Awards, and Pirate Life is the true double-threat: award-winning beers with wide-spread distribution.
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