Friday, January 28, 2011

Independent Can Company - West Pack Trade Show

Independent Can Company will be attending the West Pack Trade Show, Booth 5497. Please do come by and see out full line of Tins, PET, Closures (Metal & Plastic), Tubes, and more.

Click here to RSVP: West Pack Trade Show -

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Friday, January 14, 2011

Tube Packaging - Plastic & Aluminum

Products – Tubes

Independent Can together with LAGEEN Tuboplast is a full service supplier of flexible tubes including aluminum, plastic and laminate. These high quality and versatile tubes are the ideal package for hundreds of health and beauty products.

Both companies, Independent Can as well as LAGEEN Tuboplast are known for their product excellence and service. Each tube that we feature is meticulously suited to its purpose. Experience coupled with the latest production and print technologies allows us to bring the highest quality container to market.

Aluminum Tubes
* Totally impermeable to gases
* Resistance to internal and external corrosive processes
* Different type of internal and external coatings
* Includes sealant security band
* Tamper evident opening
* Convenient applicators

Plastic Tubes
* Made from polyethylene, LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE and polypropylene
* User friendly requiring light pressure
* Wide range of models
* Printing up to 8 offset colors
* Printing up to 6 silkscreen colors
* Hot Stamping available on both tubes and caps
* Includes regular caps, rounded caps, flip-tops
* Convenient applicators
* Tamper evident solutions
* Multilayered tubes are available with EVOH layer

For more information on how Independent Can / Lageen can help you with your Tube Packaging needs please call Carvel Massengale at 630-531-0607 or Contact Us by Clicking Here

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

National Popcorn Day

NATIONAL POPCORN DAY! Sounds like a perfect excuse to order yourself some gourmet popcorn. And what better then a 2 gallon , 3.5 gallon , or 6.5 gallon can of three flavor popcorn.

Comment below and tell us who your favorite gourmet popcorn maker is.


"National Popcorn Day


National Popcorn Day is celebrated at the end of January, although its exact date is a matter of debate. Various sources report it as January 19; others claim it takes place on whatever day the Super Bowl falls on. The Popcorn Board is often asked about the origins of this day; unfortunately, we do not know how or when this celebration began. Some other individual or organization (with obvious good taste) began this tradition.

The connection to the Super Bowl seems natural enough. It’s a highly regarded annual sporting competition pitting the top two national football teams against each other. Millions of viewers from around the globe hunker down with bowls of their favorite snack—popcorn—in heated anticipation of who will win the battle.

If you know of the origins of National Popcorn Day, please email us at: edu@popcorn.org "
Quoted from http://www.popcorn.org

Independent Can Company is a specialist in the manufacturing of Gourmet Popcorn Tins. Click Here to see some of Independent Can Company's newest 3.5 Gallon Designs.
If you would like more information on Independent Can Company or our Gourmet Popcorn Tins Call us at 909-923-6150 or Contact Us By Clicking Here


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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Inside Sales Manager Wanted - Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Company:Independent Can Company
Company Profile | Current Opportunities (0)
Job Location(s): Belcamp, MD; Aberdeen, MD; Bel Air, MD
Employment Term: Regular
Employment Type: Full Time
Start Date: Immdediate
Starting Salary Range: Not Provided
Salary/Benefit Notes: Compensation package includes, vacation, paid holidays, medical/dental coverage, profit sharing and 401k options
Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience: 2 to 20+ years
How To Apply: Fax resume with complete salary history to: Human Resources Manager 410-272-6494 OR, email hrdept@independentcan.com. To avoid spam filters, position title must be in subject line or mail to P.O. Box 370, 1300 Brass Mill Road, Belcamp, Maryland 21017

Position Description
INSIDE SALES MANAGER
(Four-Year College Degree Preferred)

Independent Can Company, a global manufacturing, family-owned company with annual sales of 60 million dollars, is seeking an experienced Inside Sales Manager to join our Sales Team. The successful candidate will have sales, customer support and service, and marketing experience. This person will be responsible for inside sales/account management and staff as well as the development of new customers and new product sales in the United States and Canada. Responsibilities also include the identification and recommendation to senior management of items to be analyzed for Independent Can Company’s stock and custom programs. The skills and experience necessary for success in this position are creativity, experience with personnel, evaluations, goal setting, sales acumen and a comfortable mathematics skill level. The selected individual must have excellent communication and people skills and the adaptability to fit into a manufacturing environment. Overnight travel may be required depending on customers’ needs.

Compensation package includes, vacation, paid holidays, medical/dental coverage, profit sharing and 401k options. To be successful in this position the candidate must understand, accept and be committed to our employee-developed Company Values of being Fair, Flexible, Customer, Market, and Improvement Driven, Dedicated, Responsible and Teamwork.

Independent Can Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer
M/F/D/V
A Drug-Free and Smoke-Free Workplace

NO AGENCIES ACCEPTED

RESUMES WITHOUT COMPLETE SALARY HISTORY WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED

Fax resume with complete salary history to: Human Resources Manager 410-272-6494 OR, email hrdept@independentcan.com. To avoid spam filters, position title must be in subject line or mail to P.O. Box 370, 1300 Brass Mill Road, Belcamp, Maryland 21017

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Friday, January 7, 2011

Independent Can Company Manufactures New Pocket Tin for Wonka Fruit Marvels

In 2010 Independent Can Company produced the 302 x 013 Slip Cover pocket tin for Wonka Fruit Marvels. You can view this package as well as other information related to Wonka Fruit Marvels at Candy Blog

This tin utilizes the reflective nature of the tin by printing the artwork directly over the tin plate with no white undercoat. This gives the design a reflective / metallic look.


For information on how Independent Can Company can help design a tin for your specific packaging needs please call 909-923-6150 or Contact Us by Clicking Here

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Monday, January 3, 2011

NEW HEART SHAPE TIN

Introducing Independent Can Company's new heart shape tin. This new tin is called the "#3 Heart".

Size (US): 9-5/8" x 9-3/16" x 1-5/8" HT (STOCK PROGRAM HEIGHT)
Size (Metric): 244mm x 233mm x 41mm HT (STOCK PROGRAM HEIGHT)
Description: Heart shaped locked seam tin

This tin has been tooled in our Belcamp Maryland USA plant and is available both in our stock program (Red) packed in cartons of 24 and also through our custom programs where you can add your own artwork and/or embossing.  Additionally this is a SBC Tin which allows us the flexibility to adjust the height of the tin from as short as 1-5/8" HT up to a maximum of about 12" HT without additional tooling cost.

If you would like additional information on the #3 Heart Tin please call us at 909-923-6150 or Contact Us by Clicking Here




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Looking Back At 2010 and Forward to 2011

Looking Back At 2010 and Forward to 2011
To all of our customers we want to thank you for the business that you allowed for us to provide to you and we look forward to working with you in the future.
As we enter 2011 we must look back to 2010 and compile lessons learned before we can look forward and make predictions.

2010 turned out to be a good year for both sales recovery and the bottom line results. We are following an upward trend, though we have not returned to pre-recession levels. In the past 2 years we have cut costs and added new and very efficient equipment and new capabilities. I must say that I am very proud of our entire staff from top to bottom everyone has contributed to the improving results.

On the customer side we added more new accounts and sales from new accounts in 2010 than we had in any of the prior three years. 

While all of this is encouraging, we need a report card from our customers and our employees providing feedback as to our true Company performance. This is how we will be judged in the long run. Every other year we send out a Customer Satisfaction Survey and an Employee Satisfaction Survey. We will be sending out 3 surveys: Can/packaging customers, Lithography customers and Employees. All 3 surveys will go out the first week in January and we are hoping for a 100% participation from all groups.

We take all of these surveys very seriously and will report the results in the future What's New editions.  If you do not get a survey and want one, please send me an email: rickh@independentcan.com.
It is our opinion that we provided excellent service this past year although we know that we are not perfect. When we make mistakes we expect to be judged by how well we respond and correct the situations. If you have examples of where we did an exceptional job of fixing a problem, or where we did not, please pass these examples back to us so that we can review both the good and the bad. We will learn a lot more from our mistakes than from where we do things correctly.
In 2010 we added new tooling and processes along with new automation, and we also refurbished traditional equipment which all contributed to the results. We are just now beginning to identify the key projects for 2011. We have some exciting new capabilities coming that we will be able to talk about as the year progresses. We will be investing in all business segments.
 
New Products: New products are the life blood of any organization and we are no different. We have added a new Heart Shaped tin which everyone is very excite about. This is not an easy tin shape to make and our mechanics did an outstanding job at launching this new tool to meet a critical customer’s needs. 
New Stock Heart Tin
  
New Stock Designs
2011 stock tin catalogue: The new catalogue will be out in the next week or two so please contact your sales representative if you have immediate needs. Many of the new designs are printed and will be available shortly. Images of these new designs are available in our online catalog.
2011 Stock Tin Catalog
In closing, we want to again thank all of our very important customers for their loyalty. We know that you have choices when it comes to packaging. We are also aware that you have many choices as to where you buy your tins, and that you have a choice as to whether to use a tin, box, plastic container, form-fill bags etc. We are working very hard to make our supply as cost effective and easy as is possible.

We want to wish everyone a very Happy Healthy and a Prosperous New Year. 

If you have any questions please call us at 909-923-6150 or Contact Us by Clicking Here

Ryan D. Huether


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