On February 13, 2008, President Bush signed The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 into law. This law has two provisions that may reduce your cost of investing in new equipment for your business. This bill increased the expensing limits for small business and includes a 50% bonus depreciation provision. If your business qualifies, you may be able to take advantage of both.

I’ve been seeing companies on the web that claim "Made in America" for all their filling and packaging equipment products. Among the products they are offering are machines that I know are made in other countries. How do I know? Because we supply the exact same product…at a lower price.

As you probably know, A Packaging Systems has been around a few years now. Over the years, I've learned a lot about the industry. One recurring theme is that clients want good service and quality machinery.

In the beginning, we scoured the world to find quality manufacturers for the machines we sold. While those machines were built with the quality we wanted, our clients often needed a unique feature or customized solution. That meant longer manufacturing lead times and delayed installation.

From time to time, we get requests for ELF equipment. ELF was the name of a company that manufactured Electronic Filling Machinery many years ago. They are no longer in business. All of the automatic and semi-automatic fillers we build today include very sophisticated electronics and are more affordable than the old electronic filling equipment.

This handy checklist will help you get the right filling equipment for your liquid packaging operation. Whether you are replacing just one component, like a filling machine, in an existing production line or moving up from a manual filling operation to a fully automatic liquid packaging line, this checklist will help eliminate mistakes that could cost you in time and money.

Every day you rely on equipment and technology for operations and growth of your business. But the value of the equipment is derived from the use of the equipment, not the ownership of your equipment! When your business leases, the business is able to delegate the risks and uncertainties of equipment ownership back to the leasing company. This allows your business to concentrate on the use of that equipment to generate the maximum revenue for the business.