Your packaging solutions partner for Packaging Materials, Systems Integration, Equipment, Parts and Technical Service

Corporate Headquarters Gallatin, Tennessee

Table of ContentsAbout UsSolution-Driven Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Inventory Commitment Program . 2

National Accounts Program . . . . . . . 3

Technical Service Programs . . . . . . . 4

Systems Integration: Associated Integrated Solutions . 5

Packaging Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Packaging SystemsStretch Wrapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Shrink Bundling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Shrink Wrapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Food Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Labeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Coding & Identification . . . . . . . . . . 14

Bagging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Protective Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Adhesive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Strapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Corrugated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Feeders & Placers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Skin & Blister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Case Erecting & Sealing . . . . . . . . . . 22

Welcome to Associated Packaging, Inc. (API), the largest independent company that specializes in complete systems and materials to package your products.

We have been providing packaging solutions for companies like yours since October 1977. We saw an opportunity in the market for a company that focused on providing total solu-tions for packaging. Today, we work with our customers to identify their packaging needs; find the most cost-effective equipment and packaging materials to meet those needs; and then provide the technical support to keep their packaging operation running smoothly.

Simply put, our customers consider us problem solvers and profit enhancers.

• We will help you reduce costs through automation.

• We can improve your packaging design so that you gain market share.

• We have the answers to help you increase productivity and reduce costs so there’s no need to send your business overseas.

We back up our solutions with a trained Customer Service Team, proactive service technicians, and a “Just-in-Time” Inventory Commitment Program. We also continue to be your packaging solutions partner long after we install your equipment. Our customers anticipate and receive a timely response when equipment problems occur. Our Technical Service programs are customized to your needs, whether it be operational maintenance or retraining of employees.

At API, we pride ourselves on our focus of partnering with our customers to find and maintain the best solution possible for their packaging needs.

We are very proud of our team for putting us on INC. Magazine’s list of fastest growing, privately-held businesses in America for three consecutive years. The Nashville Business Journal also has honored us as a Small Business of the Year.

Assembling a solid team...from our people to our global resources...has been the key to our company’s longevity. We invite you to put our team to work providing value-driven solutions to your packaging needs.

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SOLUTION-DRIVEN IDEAS!API is focused on strategies that bring value to the customer. We have a proven track record of identifying and implementing such initiatives. From designing the most innovative solutions for your packaging needs to keeping your equipment operating at peak efficiency, we provide our customers with a one-source solution for their complete packaging needs.

• We identify the ideal, most value-driven way to package a product, that can range from high-speed integrated and sophisticat-ed systems to the simplest hand dispensers.

• We monitor “per-package costs” on an ongoing basis to target opportunities to reduce costs, save time, and streamline operations.

• We provide value analysis recommendations focused on reducing total cost and covering both specification and process improvement ideas to increase the customers’ ROI.

GUARANTEED ON TIME, WHEN YOU NEED IT!

Our Inventory Commitment Program is designed to:

• Minimize the cost of inventory in your facilities

• Meet the operational requirements of your business

• Ensure a “Just-in-Time” inventory solution

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NATIONAL PRESENCE. LOCAL IMPACT.®

Providing a streamlined approach for standardized purchasing.

Our National Accounts Program is designed to meet the challenges of national, and multi-location accounts. We have the resources to standardize all of your packaging products and are “performance matched” to your application and equipment. With locations nationwide, and four decades of success, we can help your company achieve its purchasing goals and objectives.

Utilizing a single point-of-contact to coordinate communication at our locations ensures that the details of your program are executed at your plants. With a dedicated Packaging Specialist, averaging over 20 years tenure, com- mitted to each of your locations along with our Technical Service Programs, we can make a difference in your production environment and positively impact your bottom line!

What are the benefits?• Single point-of-contact for all coordination and implementation

• Assistance leveraging a customer’s combined spend

• Standardization of products and pricing

• Detailed reporting capabilities

YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO US!

API’s experienced and knowl-edgeable Customer Service Team plays an integral role in our mission to provide comprehensive packaging solutions. Team members handle all the details of an order from placement to shipment. Our multiple locations across the country serve your needs on your schedule.

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API has a reputation in the industry for superior service that is second to none. Our Technical Services Team provides technical, consultative, and troubleshooting services to meet the needs of our customers through our Technical Service Programs (more information below).

What are the benefits?• 3:1 ratio of sales to field service technicians is unique in the industry

• Timely response when equipment problems occur

• Service Technicians that regularly attend equipment training schools and understand performance capabilities of all the equipment we service and sell

• Every location has access to vast parts and supplies inventory

We have a vast inventory of used equipment available on our website!www.associatedpackaging.com/usedequipment.htm

Our Technical Instruction Program can help make your employees skilled and more effective machine opera-tors. Our highly-trained Technical Services team members provide the technical training necessary to make your operators proficient with your new equipment.

What are the benefits?• Reduce changeover time

• Improve efficiencies

• Equipment running at highest possible production levels

Our Machine Restoration Program restores your existing systems to like-new in our rebuild facilities or can be over-hauled in your plant. Detailed quotes for restoration can be provided upon request.

Our Operational Maintenance Program helps prevent costly interruptions in production and assures the peak performance of your equipment.

What are the benefits?• Increases machinery longevity

• Minimizes down time

• Ensures capital dollars are invested in equipment that is productive long-term

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nBRIDGING THE GAP:Associated Integrated Solutions* is a group of dedicated and talented materials handling and packaging professionals serving the needs of warehousing, distribution, and manufacturing companies. We are able to cross what used to be traditional boundaries between business segments, material handling systems and packaging applications to supply integrated solutions. This “Systems Approach” reduces the chance of breakdowns, lost-time, misapplication, and inefficiencies that can cost your company profits and customers.

Markets• Food and Beverage

• Heavy and Light Manufacturing

• Traditional Warehousing

• Distribution Centers

• Direct Marketing and Catalog

• Apparel and Textiles

• Pharmaceutical

• Printing and Publishing

• Furniture

• Electronics

• Automotive

• Defense Contractors

• Government Agencies

Primary Solutions• Conveyors

• Sortation Systems

• In-Motion Weighing/Dimensioning

• Conventional Palletizers

• Robotic Palletizers

• Custom Robotics

• Automatic Shipping/Manifesting Systems

• Automated Label Print and Apply

• Voice Picking/Pick-to-Light

• End-of-line equipment

*Associated Integrated Solutions is a business unit of Associated Packaging, Inc.

Core Capabilities• Systems Design and Engineering

• Project Management

• CAD

• Start-up and Commissioning

• “System Free” Warranty

WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING...

By replacing nine hot melt units, we are now saving over 50 lbs. per day of glue and estimate saving $250,000 per year on glue for those lines. The zero maintenance and pellet auto-fill system will save my operators valuable time as well.”

Associated Packaging proposed a different type of equipment to package our product. The savings we realized in material and labor paid for the new machinery in 165 days.”

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Packaging SystemsAlphabeticallyAdhesive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Bagging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Case Erecting & Sealing . . . . . . . . . . 22

Coding & Identification . . . . . . . . . . 14

Corrugated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Feeders & Placers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Food Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Labeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Protective Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Shrink Bundling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Shrink Wrapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Skin & Blister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Strapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Stretch Wrapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Stretch film is the primary packaging material for containing loads of products as they are transported from the man-ufacturer to the customer. It provides product protection, maintains the integrity of your product, and contributes to handling, labor, and transportation savings. High performance stretch films, when used in conjunction with optimized wrappers can greatly benefit your bottom line.

Let us help you select the proper film and equipment to make the most of your stretch wrapping budget!

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Self-PropelledRobot Stretch

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Semi-Automatic Rotary Tower Stretch Wrapper

Low Profile Semi-AutomaticStretch Wrapper

Robotic Palletizerand Automatic StretchWrapping System

Orbital Stretch Wrapper

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Shrink bundlers are used to wrap a diverse range of products in the food, beverage, personal care and household care industries. This includes bottles, jars, cans and cartons— either bundling groups of individual items or items in trays. Whether you need semi- or fully-automatic, intermittent or continuous motion shrink wrapping, we can provide the right equipment and films to reduce your packaging footprint.

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Intermittent Motion Horizontal Shrink Wrapper

High-Speed Bottom OverlapHorizontal Shrink Wrapper

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Shrink films provide product branding, package cleanliness, containment, product security, and shelf life extension. We can provide innovative, automatic shrink packaging solutions designed to efficiently package a wide variety of consumer and industrial products, such as food, toys, books, media, software, sporting goods, automotive supplies, and so much more.

We offer a full range of semi-automatic and fully automatic shrink wrapping machines, including side sealers, lap sealers, in-line L-bar sealers, combo units, and shrink tunnels.

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High-Speed Automatic L-Bar Sealer

Manual L-Bar SealerLarge Capacity Shrink Tunnel

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High-Speed Servo Cross Seal Continuous Motion Wrapper

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Flow Wrapper

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Food safety is a constant concern for everyone. Consum-ers will not purchase food items if the packaging looks compromised. We can give your food packaging the quality presentation and protection it needs. If you need modified atmosphere packaging, cold item transport, or barrier properties to your packaging, API has you covered.

Multi-Head Weigher with Vertical Form and Seal Machine

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API offers everything from table-top label printers to fully-automated print and apply labeling systems. Whether you’re using white stock labels or fully custom labels that brand your products - we can find the best solution for all of your label printing and application needs.

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Front and Back Labeling System

Label Applicator

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High-Resolution Thermal Transfer Printer

High-Resolution Ink Jet Printer

We offer the latest technology in coding and identification for industrial applications including food, healthcare, pharmaceutical, beauty care and more. When you need to print lot codes, barcodes, or date codes API will find the solution that’s right for your print surface.

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High-Resolution Hot Melt Ink Jet Printer

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Bagging systems are used to insert and seal products inside a flexible material bag or pouch. We offer both semi-automatic and automatic bagging machines. Which one you choose will depend on your packaging goals, your bagging environment, and your bag styles and sizes. By incorporating an automatic bagging machine into your packaging operations, your company can benefit from in-creased production and consistency, reduced workstations, reduced labor costs, greater accuracy, and product safety.

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TOP: High-speed Automatic BaggerBOTTOM: Tabletop Semi-Automatic Bagger and Sealer shown with and without Printer

High-Speed Food Grade Bagger

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We offer many protective packaging solutions to keep your items safe through the rough world of commercial transport. Some of the options include foam, bubble, paper, wadding, mailers, loose fill, surface protection, and air-filled pillows. Using the latest packaging technology we can design a cost efficient package that will minimize damage and minimize case dimensions.

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Inflate-On-Demand Air Pillow System

Inflate-On-Demand Bubble System

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Tired of charring and clogged nozzles? Whatever your hot melt application, we can offer you a system that uses the latest technology, including tank-free and low heat designs.

Let API offer a solution that will melt away your down-time!

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Adhesive Applicator

Hot Melt Hose

Adhesive Supply Unit

Tank-Free Hot Melt System

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We can supply you with any size, shape or style of corru-gated...from traditional kraft corrugated boxes to full color high-impact displays. Whether you need standard cases or printed and die cut solutions, we can meet those needs, while keeping in mind sustainable solutions and material savings through the optimal product-to-package ratio.

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Load containment is very important for a variety of reasons. Commercial transport, pilferage, and most importantly safety are just a few of the concerns we think of when securing our loads. Strap is one of many options for load unitization and containment. Based on the load weight, we can offer a variety of strap and sealing machinery options. Whether you need hand fed buckles and straps or automatic arch machines, woven or steel options, API will help you find the right solution.

Arch Strapping Machine

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High-Speed Robot for Pick-Place, Inspecting, Sorting and Kitting Applications

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Whether it’s a single feeder, placer, or a complete integrated system, we take the confusion out of solving your most challenging production automation problems for the best value. All of our feeders and placers feature proven reliability, innovative design, heavy-duty construction, and the flexibility to perform a wide variety of applications for many different types of products.

Heavy Duty Flighted Infeed

Denester

Vacuum Transport System

Friction Feeder

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If you’re looking for merchandising appeal in the form of visual carded packaging or your application is more indus-trial in nature and you just need to protect your products in transit, API can provide you with the most innovative, technological developments in skin and blister packaging equipment and high-performance packaging films.

Blister Pack

Skin PackagingMachine

Fully-Automatic Rotary Blister Packaging Machine

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Let’s face it almost everything shipped these days is shipped in a corrugated case. Manual case erecting takes a lot of labor, and erected cases take up a lot of valuable production space. Our case erecting and sealing systems can minimize tape usage and present a clean consistent look to your packages, to save you time, space, and money. Our machines start from small semi-automatic machines to fully automatic high speed machines.

Whatever your need, API can improve your efficiency.

Semi-Automatic Form, Pack and Seal Combo System

Wipedown Action Tape Head

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Fully-Automatic CaseFormer / Case Erector

Heavy-Duty AutomaticTop and Bottom Case Sealer

Semi-Automatic Case Sealerfor Random Box Sizes

Corrugated Tray Former

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Let us put our resources to work for you in the following areas...

Adhesives• Adhesive Dispensers

and Applicators

• Cold Glue Adhesives

• Hot Melt Adhesives

Bags• Antistatic

• Autobags®

• Barrier Bags

• Gaylord Box Liners

• Gusseted

• Laminated

• Lip-n-Tape

• Polyethylene

• Printed

• PVC Shrink

• Reclosable

• Retail

• VCI

• Wicketed

Carded Packaging• Blisters

• Chipboard Cartons

• Chipboard Sheets

• Clamshells

• Printed Boards and Cards

• Surlyn® Skin Film

Closure Items• Bailing Wire

• Bale Ties

• Box Closing Staples

• Cable Ties

• Hook and Loop

• Rubber Bands

• Shrink Bands

• Stitching Wire

Corrugated• Custom and Stock Boxes

• Die Cut

• Food Service Boxes

• Point of Purchase Displays

• Separators and Partitions

• Sheets and Pads

Flexible Packaging Films• Barrier

• Co-extruded

• Laminated

• Lidding

• Polyester (PET)

• Polyethylene

• Polypropylene

• PVC

• Registered/Random Printed

Labels • Coupon/Promotional

• Custom/Prime

• Digital

• GHS

• OSHA

• RFID

• Safety

• Shipping

• Warning/Safety

Pallets• Corrugated

• Plastic

Protective Packaging• Bubble Wrap®

• Cohesive

• Edge Protectors

• Desiccants

• Dunnage Bags

• Expanded Polystyrene (EPS)

• Foam-in-Place

• Foam Sheeting

• Honeycomb

• Inflatable Pillows

• Kraft Paper

• Mailers

• Modified Atmosphere (MAP)

• Molded Pulp

• Newsprint

• Packaging Peanuts

• UV

• VCI – Rust Inhibiting

Ribbons & Inks• All printer models

• Colors

• Custom Sizes

• Inkjet Fluids

• Replacement Cartridges

• Solvents and Cleaning Solutions

• Thermal Transfer

Shrink Film• Bands/Sleeves

• Polyethylene

• Polyolefin

• Polypropylene

• PVC

• Shrink Box®

• Tamper Evident

Strapping/Banding• Cord

• Buckles and Seals

• Nylon

• Polyester

• Polypropylene

• Steel

• Woven

Stretch Film• Bundling

• Hand Grade

• Hand-held Dispensers

• Machine Grade

• Netting

Tapes• Carton Sealing Tape

• Cloth and Duct Tape

• Double-faced Tape

• Filament Tape

• Masking Tape

• Specialty Tape

• Tape Dispensers

• Water Activated Reinforced

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CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS435 Calvert Drive Gallatin, Tennessee 37066-5448 phone 615 .452 .2131 fax 615 .452 .7890

www.associatedpackaging.com

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OklahomaOklahoma City 3501 Melcat Dr.Oklahoma City, OK 73179Phone 405.601.2266Fax 405.601.2311

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Memphis4800 Southridge Blvd., Suite 17Memphis, TN 38141Phone 901.365.1897Fax 901.365.6907

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UtahSalt Lake City4980 W. Amelia Earhart Dr., Suite DSalt Lake City, UT 84116Phone 801.355.0511Fax 801.355.1467

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