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As new breweries open and the market becomes more crowded, brewers have to be aware of new packaging trends and adapt to consumer demands. We've put together the top trends along with advice for emerging brewers or established brewers looking for new insights.

Operation Packaging Care was a great success! Thank you to everyone who contributed to our donation drive! We boxed up 190 pounds of donated items to send to the deployed troops of the 147th Air Wing.

The rise of e-commerce has completely changed the way we shop. It has also restructured our economy and distribution channels, while creating new challenges and opportunities for retailers to address. With the type of growth Amazon and the e-commerce industry are experiencing, you have to wonder that from a sustainability perspective, are we heading in the wrong direction?

Reducing costs and speeding up end of line assembly are goals for most manufacturers. Improving your packaging and your packaging systems takes the expertise of qualified engineers to develop the products that will work best for your project...

Foxconn just announced it will be opening a plant in our home state, potentially creating 10,000 new manufacturing jobs and bringing Apple production state-side. As a strong supporter of local manufacturers, we welcome you to the great state of Wisconsin Foxconn! We love our state and we are sure you will to. There’s so much more to us besides beer, cheese, and the Packers!

Some people have expressed concern over the future of automation and worry that technology will destroy jobs faster than it can help create them. On the other side of the spectrum, many economists strongly believe progressive technology is not malicious, in fact it will benefit workers and industries...

An increase in productivity, savings, profit margins, and quality can be made by strategic automation of end of line processes. Not all packaging lines need to be fully automated to bring about greater efficiencies. The level of automation needed depends greatly on the requirements of the packaging line and the ROI on automating certain processes...

Automation is becoming a highly sought after way to increase productivity and reduce costs. It's especially useful (and welcome) to replace redundant, tedious end of line operations. Even with all of the recent advances and information available, investing in automation solutions can still be an extremely intimidating process...

Put our Automation Road Map Infographic to use determining where your facility falls on the path to full automation. This guide gives you an idea of where you can upgrade and the performance increase you can expect. Of course, when it comes to automation each facilities situations can be different...

Critters in prepackaged food? It doesn't occur often, but when it does, it usually explodes into a viral news story and turns into a food safety nightmare. You've probably heard the horror stories of a scorpion and a bat being found in packaged greens. How does this happen?

At Rocket Industrial we talk and blog about many of the great things we do but not as often about the great people doing them. That leads me to our newest addition to the team. A young energetic personality that played rugby for UW Stout, snowboards out west, created shelf ready packaging to get pies safely to your door, and interviewed with us for over 3 months to get the job...

Effective packaging design has a major impact on brand image and sales, and there are few better examples of that than YETI. The premium coolers claim to be the ultimate in performance and durability, made to withstand any wild, epic adventure...