If your desire is to showcase your product in a highly visible, yet tamper proof package, blister packaging may be just what the doctor ordered. Our line of blister packages employs the latest in aqueous coating technology. Our 9 color over 1 Mitsubishi Diamond Tandem UV inter station curing lithographic press will print blister cards, high end foil packaging, and folding carton work in one pass with world class reproductive quality.

If you have ever seen a dog-chew toy skinned to a card, with that seemingly impenetrable layer of plastic film firmly adhered around the toy and onto the card backer, you already understand the value of this type of packaging. The machinery to fill and seal the package is reasonably inexpensive relative to more expensive blister sealing equipment, and there is no sealing tooling. Cutting dies are required, however they can be manufactured relatively inexpensively. Our consultative staff can assist you in the process of evaluating this type of packaging.

Some restaurants specialize in steak and others in seafood. While we manufacture all grades of paperboard packaging, fifth panel boxes with either a flat or “z” fold, are one area where we outshine the majority of our North American competition.. Our international gluers with auto packing capabilities are custom engineered to handle this brand of packaging at an optimum level of efficiency.

When it comes to paperboard packaging, there is no comparison to the folding carton. Regardless of your requirement in style, filling technique or desired marketing or distribution properties, our staff of designers can suggest the folding carton which is best suited to your needs. Our consultative staff can assist you in the process of evaluating this type of packaging.

When it comes to paperboard packaging, there is no comparison to the folding carton. Regardless of your requirement in style, filling technique or desired marketing or distribution properties, our staff of designers can suggest the folding carton which is best suited to your needs.

Stretch packaging is a relatively mature concept that has a specific niche. It functions like a blister card, with the product being suspended between a sandwich of shrink film and a paperboard border around the entire package. It is a hanging package, much like a blister package, however it requires no thermoforming and no thermoforming tooling expense. Our consultative staff can assist you in the process of evaluating this type of packaging.

Our capabilities lend themselves nicely to the manufacture of anything that is paperboard, printed and diecut. Diecut inserts for clamshell packaging or for the insertion in any other primary packaging are a product line that we manufacture on a daily basis. There is no limit to the variety or complexity of this packaging medium. Our consultative staff can assist you in the process of evaluating this type of packaging.

Boutwell, Owens and Co., Inc. has developed a process to imprint packaging with item-specific details, after the product is diecut and or glued. This imprinting process allows us to specifically develop and manage generic packaging programs which provide the client a degree of flexibility unmatched in the traditional means of manufacturing item specific parts packaging.

If rugged packaging is needed and you still want to maintain that fine detailed graphic appearance, laminated fluted packaging may be just what the doctor ordered. The combination of a high quality printed lithographic image, which is printed on a high quality SBS substrate, and a high strength fluted backer medium delivers a package which is durable, meets many of the needs of today’s super retailers and can eliminate corrugated outer packs in many instances.

Our team of seasoned sales professionals are backed up by an equally seasoned team of customer service professionals, who work hand in hand to insure that your needs are appropriately translated into a workable plan and finally that you, our valued client, receive exactly what you expected.

Our team of packaging structural designers, backed up by the most modern packaging design system, and the most proficient sample making equipment available, will insure that your packaging concept becomes a reality, delivering the optimum in ease of use, maximization of graphics space and the most efficient means of converting to deliver you the highest value for your packaging dollar.

Whether you need the highest degree of technology invested in your project to convert your graphic images from disk to plate, or whether your workflow requires a more conventional approach, our team of graphics arts professionals can deliver BIG to you in this area. Our capabilities are diverse and our level of interaction with you, the client, insures that you will get the maximum bang for your packaging dollar.

Boutwell, Owens and Co., Inc. can apply a wide variety of specialty coatings and laminations including: Flood UV coating,Spot UV coating ,High temperature varnishes and coatings ,Film laminates ,Hot foil stamping and plastic film stamping ,Blister and skin adhesive coatings ,Aqueous appearance coatings of varying glosses ,Vapor barrier coatings,Cohesives

Our team of professionals who operate the window equipment will insure that your product delivers the maximum value in the marketplace with the application of a transparent film window of your choice. Our compliment of windowing equipment is an excellent match to our gluing capabilities, providing you a total solution to your packaging challenges

When your package demands the application of a resealable tape or adhesive, our finishing department can work closely with you to deliver the correct solution to your individual challenge. We have the ability to automatically apply numerous products to your package to meet this need.

From 830 material releases via EDI to a customized approach to servicing your information management needs, Boutwell Owens has a full staff of MIS professionals who can assist you in developing an information and communication solution which delivers where it counts, improved communication in the supply chain.

Our team of packaging structural designers, backed up by the most modern packaging design system, and the most proficient sample making equipment available, will insure that your packaging concept becomes a reality, delivering the optimum in ease of use, maximization of graphics space and the most efficient means of converting to deliver you the highest value for your packaging dollar.

You can rely on our team of printing professionals to give your project the appropriate amount of care in the converting of your design or concept into a printed package. Our highly trained staff operates our fleet of high quality Mitsubishi lithographic presses, hi-lighted by our most recent addition, our new F series press, which can print 7 colors front, 1 color back and coat on the front, all in one pass on the press. We specialize in all aspects of lithographic printing, ranging from

Our team of seasoned diecutting professionals operates a fleet of Bobst and Iberica diecutting presses, giving us a wide range of capabilities, including diecutting, embossing, debossing and blanking. You can rely on our ability to deliver packaging, which runs efficiently on high-speed automatic equipment, as today’s needs dictate.

Our fleet of gluing equipment is manned by an excellent staff of seasoned professionals, who will insure that your product is glued and packed to your exacting specifications. Our abilities are quite diverse, ranging from very simple straight line gluing to the most complex right angle gluing and specialty taping.

We maintain three warehousing facilities to service your need for maintaining just-in-time inventories. Two warehouses are in Fitchburg and one in El Paso, Texas provide you a choice in the location of your product to more efficiently service your packaging needs.

Software Multimedia Packaging

Boutwell, Owens and Co., Inc. has developed a set of standards to be utilized by packaging graphic designers in the software and multimedia industries. Our intent with this program is to simplify redundant decisions and provide a framework that the designer can work from, customizing their approach where needed, and using the standards where they make sense. The benefits include the availability of standardized diecutting tooling which, if employed, can be used for a cost less than that of new dedicated tooling, as well as the immediate availability of EPS computer files to streamline the graphic design process. We have an entire section of this Web Site devoted to this program and we invite you to tour this section of the site, as we are sure you will find the information to be of substantial value to your design effort.