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Your Trusted Packaging Solutions Partner

Shorr offers much more than packaging materials and equipment—we’re a full-service packaging solutions partner. With expertise in warehousing, logistics, transportation and more, Shorr has an unmatched ability to optimize supply chains, streamline processes, innovate packaging operations and maximize ROI.

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Sustainability
Program

Our Sustainability program offers guidance to help you reduce your environmental footprint—from packaging to operations, and beyond.

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Automation
Expertise

Our Packaging Automation team is your partner in discovering, designing, supplying, and integrating efficient, automated solutions.

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Inventory
Management

Our customizable vendor-managed inventory solution provides insight into your supply chain and onsite inventory management support.

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In-House
Line of Products

Our product catalog simplifies the purchasing process by offering in-stock, ready-to-ship quality and affordable packaging products.

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Tailored
to Your Business

Our national packaging program delivers a customized approach and comprehensive packaging solutions that scale with your business.

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Total Approach
to Packaging

Our packaging specialists conduct an audit and analyze your packaging operations to create value and efficiency through optimization.

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Personal
Customer Portal

Our eCommerce platform offers customers access to 24-hour online ordering, favorite lists, order history, and easy reorders.

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Custom
Packaging Design

Our Packaging Design teams offer comprehensive expertise—from graphic packaging design, POP displays, structural designs, and more.

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Packaging Products & Shipping Supplies

We provide a wide range of high-quality packaging products from top manufacturers, ensuring cost effective, efficient solutions and well-managed inventory for your business.

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Packaging Equipment

We leverage decades of expertise to deliver customized, value-driven automation solutions that streamline processes, lower costs, and keep clients ahead of the competition.

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What’s Boxing You in?

Shorr can conduct a comprehensive and detailed review of your packaging operations, identifying opportunities to improve processes and achieve your company’s goals.

Our solutions-based approach enables us to deliver results. Reduced costs and improved efficiencies will set your business up for continued success.

Experiencing Inefficient Processes

A Gourmet Dog Treat Company partnered with Shorr to streamline its supply chain. They wanted a dependable solution to manage inventory, reduce labor costs, and boost production output. Shorr recommended key updates to the customer’s equipment and implemented intellistock and automation technology to support their initiatives. As a result, Shorr helped the customer increase units produced by 240% and enabled over $1M in labor and operational cost savings.

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Rising Material Freight & Labor Costs

An agricultural manufacturer was looking to automate their packaging processes. They wanted a solution that could increase line speeds and had automated sorting capabilities to boost output. Shorr offered a complete solution that included consumables like shrink and stretch film, machinery, and conveyance. As a result, the manufacturer doubled the volume of products and cases handled and was able to save over $1M in labor and operational cost savings.

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Achieving Sustainability Goals

Shorr approached an agricultural manufacturer and learned that they had set a target of reducing 30% in Scope 3 CO2e emissions by 2030. To achieve this goal, they needed a partner that would supply them with sustainable products, provide subject matter expertise, and has a robust sustainability program. Leveraging its expertise, Shorr enabled the customer to reduce greenhouse gases by more than 43.6M lbs. while eliminating over 15.8M lbs. of solid waste.

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Regulatory Compliance

A leading medical device company specializing in the production of minimally invasive surgical products required a packaging solution designed to ensure sterility, protection, and ease of use during surgical procedures. The customer previously utilized standard peelable pouches and had identified several areas for improvement. These improvements were crucial for maintaining product integrity while also meeting stringent regulatory requirements.

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Sustainability & Industry Trends

A manufacturer of heavy-duty power tools was looking to reduce their total CO2e emissions 60% by 2030. To achieve the goal, the manufacturer understood they needed more sustainable and efficient packaging solutions. In addition, they were experiencing issues with their international cargo loads. Shorr leveraged its industry expertise, supplier relationships, and Shorr’s private label brand, ShorrExpress®, to implement efficient packaging practices.

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Minimal Warehousing Space

Shorr approached a longstanding customer and global leader in powersports to help improve their supply chain management. Shorr’s industry expertise and vendor-managed inventory solution, intellistock, provided holistic insights into usage data and trends, allowing the customer to eliminate out-of-stock supplies and decrease on-hand inventory. This change has reduced the needed storage space for packaging and processing supplies significantly.

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Excessive Material Waste

A luxury eCommerce retailer partnered with Shorr following their rebrand. The retailer wanted a more efficient approach to manage inventory, while also reducing material and labor costs. Shorr stepped in to streamline packaging operations, quickly identifying and implementing pivotal packaging solutions, which substantially reduced material cost and waste while advancing the customer’s sustainability goals and saving the retailer millions of dollars.

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Avoid Damaged Products

A high-end guitar manufacturer began fulfilling orders using air cushioning sheets wrapped around the instruments. Though this offered some protection, it significantly lacked the bracing ability to prevent movement inside the boxes. Shorr and Pregis collaborated closely, engineering an AirSpeed® ChamberPak solution that would protect the products from damage and designing a supply chain solution that guaranteed an adequate supply of packing materials.

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Packaging Performance vs. Cost

A large eCommerce company called upon Shorr to help decrease shipping costs by 10%. Shorr leveraged its industry expertise and collaborated with their trusted partner, Pregis. Together, the teams collaborated to find a unique solution that surpassed the initial expectations. Switching the corrugated boxes for Pregis EverTec mailers initiated a domino effect that would see costs lowered in several areas, enabling over $4.3 million in annual savings.

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Keeping Up with Supply & Demand

A Consumer-Packaged Goods company was experiencing setbacks in its operations due to a packaging bottleneck. Their manufacturer was packing their candy at the end of the line, forcing the line to halt regularly to keep up with the packaging. Shorr leveraged industry expertise and ShorrPack to offer cost-effective co-packing and kitting services. Working with Shorr allowed the customer to grow their business, scaling from eight SKUs to 100 in one year.

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ShorrExpress® Catalog

Browse our private-label catalog of high-quality, affordable, and available products including tape, mailers, stretch films, packing list envelopes, and labels.

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ShorrExpress® Products In Stock and Ready to Ship

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Trusted by Industry Leaders

Department Manager

If I have any problems whatsoever, I call Shorr. Anything on the equipment, I call Shorr. If I need tape, I call Shorr. If I need label. I call Shorr.I have one number I call. And that’s Shorr. That’s it.

David R.

Accounting & Finance

[Shorr has] been a major support system for us as far as our growth and development. It’s nice to have like-minded companies working together to really help both parties grow.

Jimmy L.

Automation/ Process Engineer

It's been impressive watching Shorr work and to coordinate all these manufacturers and all these different fabricators together in one place and on one system. It's been a pleasure watching them and seeing the new system actually come to fruition.

Steve T.

VP Sales and Marketing

Seeing the things that Shorr valued was aligned with the same things that we value; it really made our partnership that much easier to grow.

Ryan U.

VP Nutrition and Health Services

When I first met with [Shorr], we had an in-depth discussion of our needs (…) [Shorr] has always been with us along the way to help troubleshoot any issues we have and provide hands-on training with our staff as needed.

Melissa P.

Strategically Located – Where You Need Us

Headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, we are strategically located across the United States, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Our well-stocked warehouses make us uniquely equipped to accommodate your packaging needs in a quick, efficient manner. At Shorr, we scale and grow with our customers, servicing you when, and where you need us.

Key Vendor Partners

Shorr collaborates with industry leaders to bring our customers only the most-effective packaging solutions.

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