Packaging Design
Holiday Packaging
As we make our way into this holiday season it is important to keep in mind that, similar to last year, consumers are predicted to scale back on in-store shopping. While this holiday season may lack the in-person shopping experience, you can still add a valuable...
Success Story: Ingram Express Services
In observance of Happiness Happens Month, we are thrilled to highlight our partnership with customer Ingram Express Services (IES). Originating as a kitting, fulfillment and distribution company in bustling Nashville, TN, IES, growing to meet their customer’s...
Corrugated Basics: Board Test & Flutes
Board Test Basic knowledge of board tests can help when finding the right packaging to ship your product safely and with confidence. The board test, sometimes referred to as a board grade, is a number that can be found inside the Box Maker’s Certificate (BMC) printed...
Success Story: Mis’ Rubin’s Seasonings
The Rusken team is thrilled to highlight our recent partnership with Mis’ Rubin’s Seasonings based in Birmingham as their organization has continued to grow and flourish. Mis’ Rubin’s is home to some of the best hand-crafted rubs, seasonings, and marinades you...
Custom Packaging Can Be Your Marketer
Let Your Packaging Do Your Marketing Thoughtfully designed and printed (inside and out) packaging can be your new marketer. From direct print (flexography), to litho-labels, and everything in between, the design options are endless, customizations and branding...
Success Story: Personalized Bottle Water
From small, locally owned businesses to large corporations, and everything in between, Rusken’s customer base is a melting pot of them all. Each customer relationship of tremendous value, there is something about the small, locally owned businesses that makes...
Ship Your Food Products Confidently with Corrugated Containers
One of the most hygienic materials for distributing food products, corrugated containers allow for confident, safe delivery to your customer. Corrugated Container Benefits Clean, single use, reduces the transfer of bacteria Unlike other packaging materials, corrugated...
Success Story: Edmondson Farms
Although the harvest season for sweet potatoes starts in the late summer running into fall, the business the savory vegetable drums up is year-round. At Rusken, we take tremendous pride in supporting the agriculture industry, providing food safe, customized,...
Corrugated Packaging Design
Endless opportunities to let your product shine In the box business for almost 50 years, we certainly understand, and appreciate, that designing just the right packaging can be overwhelming, to say the least. From selecting the right box style, material, and structure...
Amazon Packaging Requirements
New to selling your product(s) through Amazon? We are here to help! With more and more organizations shifting to an eCommerce sales model at a rapid pace, Amazon remains a powerhouse in the industry with 40% of US ecommerce sales in 2021. But before jumping in with...
Success Story: Black Family Farms
As we enter the month of February, our strawberry farm customers are preparing their box orders for this year’s harvest. Though the strawberry season goes by in the blink of an eye, planting in late April and harvesting mid-to-late May into early June, the many...
Corrugated Basics: Understanding Die Cut Boxes & Tooling
What is a Die Cut Box? If you have ordered corrugated packaging before, you have likely heard a packaging professional talk about a die cut box. The corrugated term does not exactly give anything away, so what is a die cut box? Capable of fitting virtually any shape,...
Prepare for New Year Packaging Projects with Corrugated Basics
As preparation and planning for packaging projects in the New Year begin, we wanted to arm you and your team with information to help navigate what can sometimes be an overwhelming process. When factoring in the numerous box styles, board strengths, flute profiles and...
Subscription Box 101 Tips
From easy to fix meals, to healthcare, trendy seasonal fashions, and even goodies for your pets, you can find a Monthly Subscription Box for it! Subscription Boxes are a large part of the eCommerce trend that continues to dominate the market. Having already...
Enhance Customer Experiences with Connected Packaging
With E-Commerce sales on the rise, the customer experience is more important than ever. Connected Packaging can help improve the customer experience, resulting in an enormous impact on your brand. And what better way to connect, than at the initial unboxing of your...
Make the Most of First Impressions with Custom Holiday Packaging
Don’t let Santa be the only one preparing! This holiday season it is important to remember that our post-pandemic world has pushed consumers even further into a new age of online ordering and environmental enlightenment. Many organizations have been forced to...
Custom Corrugated Inserts Provide Protective Packaging
Sustainably Secure Your Products for Shipment The world of custom corrugated boxes provides endless solutions to safely secure your products, from a standard Regular Slotted Container (RSC) to a complex design, specific to your product dimensions. However, there are...
Corrugated Basics: Mullen Test VS. ECT
Making the Grade Understanding the difference between the two types of board grades helps when selecting the right packaging to ship your product safely and with confidence. Information regarding a packaging board grade is typically found on the Box Maker’s...
Corrugated Basics Comparison: RSC vs. Roll End Die Cut Tray
The world of corrugated packaging provides countless different styles, board grade and flute combinations, and customization opportunities to provide optimal solutions. It can be challenging at times to determine what corrugated box fits your project’s needs to...
E-Commerce Packaging Trends
Make an impactful first impression with purposeful packaging. Consumers are increasingly more conscious of the packaging they receive, driving some of the most recent trends, including simple design, eco-friendly and easily touting your brand narrative. Design Simple,...
Choosing the Right Box Style
The world of custom corrugated packaging offers endless options to fit your products securely and ship with confidence. When factoring in the numerous box styles, board strengths, and flute profiles available, it can be overwhelming to determine what solution is...
A Custom Box is Moments Away
The Rusken Custom Design Tool is accessible on Rusken.com Our online design tool provides the ability to easily create a high-quality 3D rendering with custom specs, graphics, and corrugated packaging styles, providing a clear design visual in only minutes. Design...
Rusken-Cullman Launches Enhanced Design Room
Looking for guidance on your next corrugated project? We are excited to unveil our revamped Design Center located at our headquarters in Cullman, AL. Equipped with new creative sample displays, collaborative meeting areas, and enhanced technology, our design team is...
Customer Collaboration Success Story: Rodney Scott’s BBQ
Custom packaging to ensure safe delivery, branded message. The Rusken Team is thrilled to highlight our partnership with Pihakis Restaurant Group (“PRG”) based in Birmingham, AL as their organization has continued to expand and flourish. PRG is home to some of the...
3 Options for Printing on Corrugated Boxes
The world of corrugated packaging provides endless opportunities for customization and branding. However, with so many options for printing, board grades, box styles, and designs, it can be challenging to find the right option for you. To assist with your...
Benefits of Corrugated Packaging
While packaging products come in all types of materials, shapes and sizes, we believe corrugated offers the most benefits regarding cost-savings, product safety, efficiency and sustainability. Here are just a few of the many benefits that corrugated packaging has to...
The Importance of Right-Sized Packaging
The world of corrugated packaging comes in all shapes and sizes. Importantly, there is growing focus on optimally sized packaging solutions, while still providing protection and support for delivery. Finding a right-sized packaging solution for your product or...
From Design to Delivery, a Customer Collaboration Success Story
A true partnership to create a custom package design showcasing the R.E. Garrison brand! We are thrilled to highlight our recent collaboration with R.E. Garrison Trucking Inc. (“R.E. Garrison”), located in Vinemont, AL, to create a visually stunning custom package...
Packaging Does Matter: Make an Incredible First Impression This Holiday Season
Corrugated packaging is reliable, sustainable & highly customizable Now, more than ever, holiday sales have shifted online. While a trend that was already on the rise, in fact, Ecommerce sales saw a 62.4% YoY increase, according to a recent Paper & Packaging...
The Importance of the Unboxing Experience
The new way of connecting! While eCommerce sales were already expected to rapidly increase over 35% by the year 2023 at the start of this year, there’s no question that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this market shift. More and more organizations are pivoting...
New Package Design Services Offered: Enhanced 3D & Graphics
Design capabilities added to deliver on our passion of making memorable first impressions! We are thrilled to offer our customers expanded package design capabilities, including 3D and graphic design services. And as our services continue to grow, so does our team. We...
Start Designing with the Rusken Custom Design Tool
Test drive the power of custom packaging with our online design tool We are thrilled to unveil the Rusken Custom Design Tool now accessible on Rusken.com. The new online design tool allows anyone (designer or not) the ability to quickly and simply mockup a...
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