Packaging That

Delivers Results

From Assembly and Kitting to Labeling and Shrink Wrap, We Deliver Customized Packaging Services

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Welcome to Essential Packaging

In business since 2001, Essential Packaging is a contract packaging, assembly, and distribution company headquartered in Tolleson, AZ. Essential is a family-owned business focused on customer satisfaction and superior quality. We are able to offer an efficient and consistent turnaround on your product at extremely competitive prices. Let us quote your next project. We are ready and willing to earn your business.

A Little About Us

Essential Packaging is your complete contract packaging solutions company. As a family here at Essential Packaging, we build our business around one core principle: Our success comes only with our customer’s success.” We are a client-focused company striving to be our customers' complete solution. We take pride in our ability to exceed our customers' expectations by following three simple values:

  • Creating a work environment based on delivering what the customer needs, when the customer needs it, and precisely how they want it.
  • Maintaining the highest level of quality control. And...
  • Insisting on open and honest communication with our customers through clear and precise systems and structures.
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What We Offer

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Assembly

From simple parts to technical designs, we'll put it all together for you.

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Barcodes

Custom template design and printing with support for the latest tag types and data formats.

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Blister Cards

Custom paperboard card and clear pre-formed plastic. Useful for protecting products against external factors such as humidity and contamination.

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Bundling

Ability to run a variety of orientations and quantities. Supported or unsupported.

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Blister Packs

Custom tooling is available to fit your product.

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Clamshell

Tamper-resistant one-piece container.

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Collating

Cartoning, boxing, and palletizing.

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Printed Film

We can use your designed graphics film for eye-catching and functional bundling.

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Fulfillment

Individual order shipment for your end-user goods.

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Kitting

Gift sets, complimentary products, specials, cookware, back-to-school... you name it!

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Labeling & Relabeling

Customer-supplied or custom barcodes and labels. Hand rework and labeling.

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Point-of-Purchase Displays

Shippers, End Caps, Sidekicks, PDQs, Quarter Pallets, Half Pallets, Full Pallets.

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Shrink Wrap

Any film or orientation.

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Sorting

Hand pairing, reordering, grouping.

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A Few of Our Capabilities

Serving You in California and Arizona.

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Efficient and Cost-effective Production.

A Few of Our Clients

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Unilever USA

400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care, and food products.

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Nestlé USA

The world's leading nutrition, health, and wellness company.

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Packaging Corp. of America

An industry leader in packaging, transporting, and displaying products of all kinds.

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Brown-Forman

A diversified producer of fine-quality consumer beverage products.

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ACCO Brands

One of the world's largest suppliers of branded office products.

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WhiteWave Foods

Plant-based foods and beverages, coffee creamers and beverages, and premium dairy products.

Our Credentials

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AIB International

Audited annually for food safety/GMPs. Superior Rated 945/1000 for 2016.

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2014-2018 Phoenix Award

For Excellence in Packaging & Labeling Services. Phoenix Business Hall of Fame member.

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Food & Drug Administration

Registered as a Food Facility for Bioterrorism Prevention.

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Food Safety Modernization Act

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