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We have two office locations and multiple warehouses located strategically across North America. Our Amherst, NS location is our headquarters where all of our extrusion, printing, and lamination occurs and is where our RD, Graphics, Project Central, and Customer Service teams are located. Our Belleville, ON location is our Converting center where all our closures are applied and pre-made pouches are produced.

We boast a 98+% on-time delivery rate. We’re so confident in our ability to deliver your project on time, we offer a rock-solid New Product Launch Guarantee. If you miss a launch date and it’s our fault, we’ll pay a penalty fee!

Yes, our HD printing provides 4000 DPI resolution (in comparison to traditional 2400 DPI). Our capabilities also offer up to 175 LPI for superior ink lay down and color control, in comparison to traditional pre-press technologies.

Emmerson Packaging does not currently offer digital printing. As a flexible packaging manufacturer that focuses on pet food and frozen food, we feel that conventional flexographic printing is still the best solution for our customers, given their existing volumes and service requirements. We are actively exploring digital technologies and will deploy them when we feel they can meet our customers’ needs for quality and cost competitiveness.

We have Research and Development and Graphics teams that will work with you to understand and provide technical expertise, along with concept and design support to ensure that your goals are met. Complete our contact us form to coordinate a meeting today!

Our minimum order quantities per product type are typically (but may vary depending on the specifications of your item):

• Rollstock and Pouches – 25,000 PC per SKU
• Box Pouches – 30,000 pc per family, 10,000 PC per SKU
• Quad bags – 10,000 per SKU per order.

As we are strategically set up to manufacture large-scale orders, most quotes start with the following annual impressions, but our experts can discuss this more with you:

• Pet food – 1 million
• Frozen food rollstock – 10 million
• Frozen food pouches – 5 million
• Towel and tissue – 10 million

• PCR materials come from plastic products that have been recycled, collected, cleaned, reprocessed into PCR resin, and then made into something new. An example of products that are used to create PCR resin would be HDPE, milk jugs.
• PCR provides excellent packaging sustainability benefits, but they may impact print quality and/or film consistency. If the package is a lamination of two substrates, the PCR can be added to the substrate that is not being printed, and the print will not be compromised. However, if the specification is one substrate and not laminated, the PCR film may impact the graphics. One of the compromises of PCR is the presence of gels or unmelts which are areas that do not melt uniformly. They will show up as small hard spots. These gels will affect print as the ink will pool around the hard spots.
• Emmerson Packaging offers 15 – 25% content. Although 100% PCR packaging is available, the resin does not melt uniformly. As a result, there can be unmelts and gels present, which are small un-melted areas in the sealant film. To minimize this impact, we advise limiting the amount of PCR in the product.

Not necessarily. The more sustainable option depends on the complete packaging system, including material use, product protection, transportation, barrier requirements and end-of-life infrastructure. Paper may offer a natural appearance, while flexible plastic packaging can use less material and provide strong barrier and seal performance.
Brands should compare the entire package rather than assume that paper or plastic is automatically the better environmental choice.

It depends on the structure. Some paper-look packaging combines paper with plastic layers needed for sealing, barrier protection or durability. When those materials cannot be easily separated, recycling can become more difficult.
Brands looking for a paper-inspired appearance should therefore evaluate not only how the packaging looks, but also how the complete material structure is designed for end of life.

Some flexible plastic packaging can be recyclable when its structure is designed for an appropriate recycling stream and suitable collection, sorting and recycling infrastructure exists.
Recycle-ready mono-material structures can make recycling simpler than packaging made from several incompatible materials. Emmerson’s SmartLam platform is designed to provide flexible packaging performance while supporting recycle-ready packaging goals.

Yes. Flexible film can be engineered with matte or textured surfaces that create a paper-like appearance and tactile feel without relying on a traditional paper outer layer.
FibreTouch, part of Emmerson Packaging’s SmartLam platform, creates a rough, matte, paper-like surface by texturing the film itself. This allows brands to achieve a natural or premium paper-inspired look while maintaining a recycle-ready flexible film structure.

FibreTouch is a tactile SmartLam flexible packaging film developed by Emmerson Packaging. Its outer surface is intentionally textured to create a rough, matte, paper-like feel.
Unlike packaging that achieves a paper appearance by laminating paper to plastic, FibreTouch creates the tactile effect through the film structure itself. It can be used to support either a natural, sustainability-focused brand aesthetic or a premium matte presentation.