Previewing the big show with AssurPack’s Nancy Gruskin Warner Today, the cannabis industry is gathering at the Las Vegas Convention Center for MJBizCon®, the biggest-of-the-big conference and expo for manufacturers, cultivators, retailers, inventors, investors, movers, shakers—and packagers. AssurPack will be on the exhibit floor showcasing our full array of innovative packaging options to the 35,000+... [continue]

Most plastic takes hundreds of years to break down or “biodegrade.”  Beverage bottles, discarded electronics, and yes — cannabis packages — fill the world’s landfills and oceans at a rate of over 600 billion pounds per year. Whoa. That’s why we’re working to make your cannabis packaging safer and more sustainable — for consumers who... [continue]

Executive Summary Despite the high quality of Natural State Medicinals’ gummies, some dispensaries refused to buy their products. Why? The packaging was difficult to open — and the problem only got worse when their packaging supplier changed production sites. By switching to the patented AssurSeal® D75 package from AssurPack, Natural State Medicinals realized the following... [continue]

Premium cannabis is a delicate product.  Terpenes — the aromatic oils that make cannabis taste and smell great — evaporate quickly, leaving behind substandard flower that’s a far cry from what came out of the curing room.  The same is true for cannabinoids. Heat, light, and dry conditions degrade them in a matter of weeks.... [continue]

If you’re a cannabis product manufacturer, managing your inventory presents special challenges. Regulatory changes and shifting consumer behavior affect your sales — for better or worse — and these factors make it hard to find the sweet spot when you’re stocking your product. Hopefully, your distribution network is expanding like crazy, too. But now, in... [continue]

Are you considering packaging your top-shelf flower in prerolled form? If not, maybe you should be. The popularity of prerolls is growing as quickly as the recreational market, and prerolls have a higher perceived value than loose flower, thus fetching a premium price. Packaging prerolls, however, poses special challenges. [continue]

As the saying goes, change is the only constant. And in the cannabis industry, you can expect unpredictable change at a break-neck speed for the foreseeable future. Every year, regulations and trends shift. Strategies that worked in 2019 may not be feasible in 2021, and cannabis packaging that once stood out as unique and innovative... [continue]

The SecurSlide® MatchBox 4 provides regulatory compliance, quick branding AssurPack® LLC, the leading supplier of child-resistant packaging for cannabis products, today announced the arrival of the SecurSlide® MatchBox 4, an easy-to-use package designed especially for cannabis prerolls. Prerolls are popular with adult-use cannabis consumers. As adult-use legalization expands to four new states in the coming... [continue]

CannaCafé’s chocolate bars were a customer favorite, despite being difficult to open. By working with AssurPack® and switching to AssurClam® edible packaging, CannaCafé realized several benefits: An easy-to-open, child-resistant package that enhanced the customer experience A reduction in production times and payroll cost savings Rave reviews from retailers and budtenders About CannaCafé CannaCafé is a... [continue]

The cannabis industry becomes more like Big Pharma with every passing day. Not only are manufacturers crafting cannabis products with pharmaceutical precision, they’re packaging them with Big Pharma strategies too. In the not-too-distant future, a commonplace business strategy — contract packaging — could become the new normal. Under the contract packaging paradigm, a third-party firm... [continue]