Packaging Support Specialists
Specialized Expertise Behind Every Packaging Program
Empire EMCO customers have access to specialized resources beyond regional sales and account coordination. Our executive support, compliance, engineering, warehouse, inventory, and logistics professionals help solve the technical and operational details that keep packaging programs moving from development through delivery.
What Specialized Packaging Support Does Empire EMCO Provide?
Empire EMCO supports packaging programs with specialized expertise in project engineering, packaging compliance, quality documentation, supplier certifications, strategic project coordination, raw-material market intelligence, warehousing, inventory management, receiving, fulfillment, and logistics. These specialists work with Regional Packaging Experts and Account Coordinators when a customer project requires deeper technical, regulatory, operational, or supply-chain support.
Specialists Supporting Empire EMCO Packaging Programs
These team members support customers and internal teams with specialized knowledge that complements Empire EMCO's sales, sourcing, account coordination, engineering, and supply-chain capabilities.
Susan Meyer
Susan Meyer supports executive operations and strategic projects across Empire EMCO. Her responsibilities include project coordination, supplier communication, executive support, and monitoring packaging industry factors such as resin-market activity, raw-material cost changes, and broader market trends that can influence sourcing and supply-chain decisions.
Sarah Lindsey
Sarah Lindsey helps support packaging compliance, quality assurance, regulatory documentation, supplier certifications, material compliance, and technical documentation. She works with customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to help provide the information needed to evaluate packaging components and support approval processes.
Jon Lewandowski
Jon Lewandowski is Empire EMCO's Project Engineer and rejoined the company in February 2024. He supports technical packaging projects and works with sales, customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners as packaging concepts move through engineering, development, evaluation, and commercialization.
Empire EMCO's engineering capabilities include custom packaging development, 3D product development and rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, short-run tooling, production tooling, and product integrity evaluation and testing.
Chris Craddock
Chris Craddock manages Empire EMCO's warehouse operations and supports the movement, storage, receiving, and release of customer packaging inventory. He works with Empire EMCO teams, customers, carriers, and suppliers to help keep packaging programs organized and shipments moving efficiently.
Empire EMCO's warehousing platform supports inventory-management, just-in-time fulfillment, specialty stocking, min/max programs, distribution, and supply-continuity strategies.
When Might You Work With an Empire EMCO Specialist?
Engineering Challenge
Bring engineering into a project when custom development, prototyping, reverse engineering, tooling, testing, or package performance requires technical support.
Compliance Question
Involve compliance when a customer needs supplier certifications, regulatory documentation, material information, quality support, or technical documentation.
Warehouse or Inventory Need
Warehouse support may be involved for inventory programs, receiving, warehouse releases, fulfillment, stocking strategies, shipping, or carrier coordination.
Strategic or Market Support
Strategic support helps connect projects with executive coordination, supplier communication, resin-market information, raw-material trends, and broader operational priorities.
Engineering Support From Concept Through Production
Packaging engineering becomes especially important when an existing stock package does not fully meet a customer's requirements or when a project involves new geometry, tooling, performance requirements, manufacturing constraints, or product-integrity considerations.
Empire EMCO's engineering resources help connect packaging concepts with practical manufacturing and production requirements.
Explore Engineering ServicesEmpire EMCO Warehouse Information
Our warehouse supports packaging inventory, receiving, fulfillment, stocking programs, and distribution while helping customers maintain continuity of packaging supply.
Strategic Warehousing & Inventory Support
Empire EMCO uses warehousing and inventory programs to help customers improve packaging availability, manage replenishment, support production schedules, and reduce the need to store large packaging inventories at their own facilities.
Available programs may include just-in-time fulfillment, specialty stocking, min/max programs, warehouse releases, distribution, and other customized inventory strategies.
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Buffalo, NY 14211
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How Do Empire EMCO's Specialists Fit Into a Packaging Project?
Identify the Need
Your Regional Packaging Expert or Account Coordinator identifies when a technical, compliance, warehouse, or operational issue requires specialized support.
Bring in the Specialist
The appropriate engineer, compliance, warehouse, or strategic resource joins the project based on the requirement.
Coordinate the Solution
Sales, support, specialists, suppliers, and customers work together to resolve the issue or move the project forward.
Support Execution
Empire EMCO continues coordinating technical, documentation, inventory, logistics, supplier, and account requirements as needed.
Connect With the Empire EMCO Team
Regional Packaging Experts
Meet the packaging consultants helping manufacturers with sourcing, custom development, engineering, sustainability, cost reduction, and supply-chain strategy.
Meet Regional Packaging Experts →Regional Account Coordinators
Meet the team supporting packaging quotes, samples, orders, suppliers, inventory, freight, and recurring account needs.
Meet Account Support →Leadership Team
Meet the leaders guiding Empire EMCO's packaging strategy, operations, sourcing, finance, supplier relationships, and long-term growth.
Meet the Leadership Team →Frequently Asked Questions About Empire EMCO's Specialized Support
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Packaging Expertise Goes Beyond the Package
From technical development and compliance to inventory, warehousing, receiving, logistics, and strategic support, Empire EMCO brings the right specialists into your packaging program when you need them.
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