EPI’s in-house, degreed design and packaging engineering staff do more than just design cartons, they work with our clients to maximize product protection and visual impact while minimizing production and distribution costs. Utilizing industry-leading software, our staff serves as consultants for all your package engineering needs—from structural design and product development to prototyping and manufacturing.

When you need to see and feel a sample of your packaging before you go to production, EPI’s prototyping services help give you the confidence you need to make important decisions. EPI offers a full array of design and prototyping solutions with experienced, degreed, in-house packaging design engineers; a full creative and design studio utilizing CAD design software with 3-dimensional, rotating online design sharing capability; prototype plotting and assembly; and structural integrity testing. Our ArtiosCAD software allows EPI engineers to create precise structural designs and animated 3D modeling, and to produce prototype cartons on our digital plotter/cutter.

At EPI, our goal is to provide our clients with custom packaging that enhances their brand and adds value to their product. Utilizing state-of-the-art print technologies, equipment and processes, EPI designs and produces innovative folding cartons, rigid boxes and packaging solutions for some of the best-known brands in the Personal Care, Confections, Food & Beverage and Consumer Products industries.

Backed by multiple facilities, in-house design engineers and cutting-edge technology, we provide our clients with everything from structural design, sampling and prototyping to long-run print production, die cutting and specialty finishing. Our strategic partnerships with producers of virgin fiberboard ensure a continuous supply of materials at the lowest costs available. And our quality management system, driven by our long commitment to maintaining ISO 9001 certification, ensures your products will be produced with the highest quality in the most efficient manner possible.

• Digital CTP workflow
• PrintEasy job automation solution
• 40”  & 56” sheet-fed offset printing- up to 8 color plus coating
• 40” & 56”  die cutting & blanking
• Hot & cold foil stamping
• Embossing & debossing
• UV coatings, metallized & pearlescent inks
• Mounting & laminating
• Set-up box forming
• Bobst high-speed in-line gluing with glue line detection

Many of our clients in the greeting card, flash card, board game, food, life sciences and consumer packaged goods industries depend on EPI to help them meet their contract packaging needs. With our in-house staffing agency, 50,000 square feet of dedicated assembly and kitting space, configurable conveyor systems, automated collation equipment and high-speed packing equipment, there is virtually no quantity or specification requirement we can’t meet. And, with our state-of-the-art facilities, dedicated employees and unparalleled quality control systems, your projects will be delivered on time—every time.

• Automated collation selective insertion
• Rollem slitting and collation
• Automated batching
• Hand assembly and kitting
• Automated cartoning and insertion
• Shrink wrapping(including large format)
• Finseal overwrapping
• Automated cello-bagging
• Labeling
• Tipping
• Product distribution

Each year, EPI ships millions of samples and trial sizes for our clients in the life sciences, consumer packaged goods and manufacturing industries. Our in-house packaging engineers will design optimal packaging to ensure stable transportation of your materials while reducing costs. Our proprietary Warehouse Management system seamlessly integrates distribution and project management to reduce time lines, costs and inventory.

For more information, please see our Sampling page under Fulfillment.