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Placon Wins 2024 AmeriStar Award for Custom Vending Machine Containers

August 8, 2024 Placon

Placon’s award-winning container line was designed exclusively for Farmer’s Fridge, a company that produces fresh food and distributes it through their network of more than 1,200 state-of-the-art vending machines. The primary goal of the packaging was to increase the vendibility of these items, as the previous containers frequently encountered vending issues, resulting in jams and disruptions in machine operation, and negatively impacting revenue. …

Placon Closing Wilson North Carolina Packaging Operation

July 30, 2024 Placon

The closure will affect seventy employees at the 112,000 square foot location. Existing business from the Wilson location will be consolidated and moved to Placon’s Madison and Plymouth locations. Customers will not experience any supply interruptions. …

Placon Introduces Delectables Tamper-Evident Square Dry Snack Product Line

May 15, 2024 Placon

The Delectables™ product line was designed to address consumer demand for safer and more sustainable food packaging options, all while allowing for easier dry snack merchandising for the growing grocery and convenience store market.  …

Placon Awarded Grant to Invest in New Sorting Equipment for Increased PET Recycling

April 5, 2023 Placon

Placon, a leading designer and manufacturer of custom and stock plastic packaging, has been awarded a grant to catalyze their investment in new front-end sorting equipment. This new equipment will enable Placon to capture around 10% more polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from incoming Material Recovery Facility (MRF) bales, allowing their Madison, WI PET recycling facility to source more material from its regional MRFs and facilitating the inclusion of PET thermoforms in those MRF bales for reclamation alongside PET bottles. …

Placon Releases Tamper-Evident Post-Consumer Recycled Round Deli Product Line

December 19, 2022 Placon

Placon continues to be a leader in sustainable, thermoformed packaging innovation with their new Crystal Seal® Cravings™ product line that is made with recycled PET material. …