Innovative Packaging

Located in Cottage Grove, Minn., Schmid & Son Packaging assists companies with their long- and short-term packaging needs. Founded in 1981, it offers hand assembly, warehousing, overwrapping, fin sealing, distribution and product fulfillment services. The company provides shrink, blister and skin packaging services. It performs shrink wrapping for calendars, stickers, stationary items, multiple packs, mails, software, CDs and cassettes. Schmid & Son Packaging provides skin packaging for cleaning products, sporting goods, office supplies, tools and household items. It offers unit cartons for packaging games, pharmaceutical products, CD-long boxes and other kits. The company is a distributor of a range of packaging materials, including blisters, cards, clamshells, stock-display cartons, and stretch and shrink films. Schmid & Son Packaging has a more than 40,000-square-foot facility.

International Packaging is a promotional packaging company, which provides a wide range of packaging and labeling services, such as padding, guillotine line cutting, glue mounting, folding, automatic labeling and multiple head drilling services. The company offers overwrapping services for a variety of products, including coupons, game pieces, sports cards, sample in-packs, catalogs, stickers, phone cards, mailings, sample on-packs and scented pieces. It also offers high-speed shrink wrapping services for catalogs, notepads, reams, books, calendars, multipacks, sticker sheets, tapes and CDs. The company employs a variety of technologies, including feeder and double-detect systems, ink jetting capabilities and advanced labeling equipment. International Packaging is located in Minneapolis.

Founded in 1976, Rapid Packaging provides packaging solutions to customers throughout the Twin Cities and Upper Midwest. The company offers same-day and next-day delivery on any item in its inventory of packaging materials and shipping supplies. Its materials and shipping supplies include bags, boxes, bubble wrap, corner guards, cushion guards, foam wrap, mailers, paper, paper tubes, dispensers, shrink film, strapping, banding, stretch wrap, pallet wrap as well as industrial and specialty tapes. The company also carries case packaging systems, shrink machines, strappers, stretch wrappers and used machinery. Rapid Packaging is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn.