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Stock Supply Chain Has Limitations in Times of Crisis

An economic downturn can have a grave impact on your business, especially if your logistics network and product manufacturing lines are hinged upon stock products.… Read More

Case Study: Chobani’s Spouted Pouch

At HQC our design capabilities, house processes, and fully integrated manufacturing facility help to prevent design problems, decrease lead times and provide innovative, cost effective… Read More

Certified vs Compliant: And Why It Matters

“There is an inherent risk for food manufacturers who use packaging vendors that are NOT food safe certified.” -HQC Inc. Food Safe Certification Being compliant… Read More

Recycled Materials for Injection Molding

Why They’re Not Always “Friendly” to Production Using recycled materials in plastics remains a focus of protecting resources and the environment. However, although recycled plastic… Read More

Icing the Cake of Spouts & Fitments for Flexible Packaging

HQC solves a production challenge with a custom weld spout for frosting DecoPro™ by CSM Bakery Solutions is a ready-to-use cake-decorating bag pre-filled with the… Read More

Sustainable Materials for Pouch Fitments / Weld Spouts

Recently a customer asked, “Can you make fitments from sustainable materials?” Our answer based on our research, is yes we can. We have been testing… Read More

First Step in Weld Spout Inserting

There are many reasons to learn about spouted pouches. You may be considering spouted pouches for your product or to explore if inserting fitments as… Read More

Improving Your Products: Take Advantage of Talc-Filled Polypropylene

HQC serves you with molding, ideas and solutions for plastics with fillers and additives HQC works extensively with products containing polypropylene (PP), a thermoplastic polymer… Read More

Pouch Manufacturing Transferred from Overseas to the U.S.A.

ZiEn has introduced flexible packages and pouches in a market that bottles typically dominate. For this innovative transition to flexible packaging to be successful, it… Read More

Is the Safety of Your Food or Medical Product’s Packaging a Shot in the Dark?

It’s easy enough for a company to slap a photo of someone in a white lab coat onto their website and throw around the term… Read More