Packsize®, a market leader in right-sized, on-demand packaging, won the Innovation, M&A, and Environmental awards in the 2025 Packaging Gateway Excellence Awards. The company won for its advances in warehouse automation, a portfolio-expanding acquisition that simplifies customer deployments, and a localization strategy aimed at reducing transport-related emissions while improving service.
Packsize won the Innovation award in the High-Throughput Automation category for advancing right-sized packaging throughput and integration across modern warehouse systems. The company won the M&A award for Portfolio Consolidation, for combining complementary technologies to offer broader, unified right-sized automation coverage with reduced vendor complexity. It won the Environmental award in the Low-Carbon Localization category for nearshoring manufacturing and refurbishment to cut logistics emissions while improving service responsiveness.
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Packsize CEO, David Lockwood said, “This recognition is a testament to our team’s continuous innovation across the entirety of our business—from our technology and product design to how we manufacture and serve customers globally. With greater automation, an expanded portfolio, and more localized production, we’re helping customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. We’re proud to further our mission of delivering smart packaging for a healthy planet.”
High-throughput automation: Advancing pace and precision in right-sized packaging
With the X6 automated right-sized packaging system, Packsize reports capacity of up to 1,500 boxes per hour while maintaining accuracy and flexibility. The throughput level supports measurable gains in labor productivity by allowing fewer operators to manage higher order volumes, and it helps shorten order cycle times during peak periods when bottlenecks typically emerge at the packing station. The platform’s ability to produce both boxes with flaps and corrugated trays on a single machine is significant because it removes the need for parallel lines or dedicated tray formers. In environments using Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS), shuttle, and goods-to-person (G2P) technologies, the tray option enables direct picking into a conveyable shipping container, streamlining handoffs and improving workstation ergonomics.
The engineering choices are purpose-built for intralogistics flow. A seamless-bottom box geometry is designed to travel more reliably on conveyors and to stack with fewer weak points, which can reduce downstream damage and rework. At the small-parcel end, the X6 can produce very small, flat cartons that pass through envelope slots. This opens a pathway to replace poly mailers with fiber-based alternatives and supports compliance with size and material efficiency requirements such as those in the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). To close the loop, integrated lidding and closing modules remove manual touchpoints that often throttle automated lines, simplifying line design and making uptime easier to manage.
Range coverage is another differentiator. By right-sizing across a broader span of SKU profiles—large, irregular, or very small items—the system can reduce void fill and improve dimensional accuracy across the order mix. In practice, this means fewer exceptions, cleaner label reads, and more predictable conveyability from pack-out to outbound sortation. The X6 does not just run faster; it aligns machine speed, packaging accuracy, and system integration in a way that improves the entire packing cell.
Portfolio consolidation: Unified coverage across box-first and box-last workflows
Packsize’s acquisition of Sparck Technologies brings together two established providers to create a more comprehensive right-sized automation portfolio. The combined offer spans box-first and box-last strategies and addresses a wide range of operating models—from ship-from-store and micro-fulfillment footprints to high-throughput distribution centers. Integrating Sparck’s CVP platforms alongside Packsize’s systems, as well as complementary lid and tray solutions, gives customers a single partner for use cases that previously required multiple vendors. This can reduce project complexity, shorten integration timelines, and simplify ongoing support.
Geography and service depth are central to the consolidation rationale. Sparck’s European base in the Netherlands dovetails with Packsize’s expanding footprint and service infrastructure, strengthening coverage for customers operating across regions. A larger installed base also supports shared R&D and parts commonality, which can improve reliability and lifecycle support over time. From a sustainability standpoint, both companies emphasize right-sized outcomes that consistently cut corrugated consumption, void fill, and transport emissions—benefits that scale as the combined portfolio is deployed more broadly.
For buyers mapping multi-year automation programs, the deal provides a clearer path to scale. As order volumes, SKU counts, or regulatory conditions change, having one provider with both box-first and box-last options lowers the risk of re-platforming or stitching together incompatible systems. The acquisition reduces vendor fragmentation while expanding the range of problems that can be solved with fit-to-size, automated packaging.
Low-carbon localization: Nearshoring manufacturing and service
Packsize’s Louisville, Kentucky Innovation Center puts nearshoring into practice with a focus on measurable emissions and service impacts. By relocating assembly and refurbishment closer to North American customers, the company reduces logistics miles and associated Scope 3 transport emissions compared with shipping equipment trans-Atlantic. Shorter lead times and regional parts availability also lessen the need for expedited shipping and air freight during machine ramp-up and maintenance cycles—common drivers of unexpected carbon and cost.
The facility’s operations are set up to manage and lower energy use. Smart lighting, advanced HVAC, and metering provide the controls needed to track consumption and drive efficiency, and the site is actively assessing renewable energy options to further reduce its footprint. Importantly, refurbishment capabilities extend equipment life and decrease embodied carbon, reducing the frequency and distance of heavy shipments for machines and components. As a regional hub, Louisville also supports more resilient supply chains—helping minimize disruption-related emissions tied to rework, returns, or redundant transport when service events occur.
Company Profile
Packsize®, a sustainable packaging leader, offers Right-Sized Packaging On-Demand®, for companies across the globe. On Demand Packaging® solutions from Packsize include a mix of hardware, software, accessories/consumables, and services. By creating right-sized packages, businesses increase throughput while enhancing their brand, the customer experience, and their bottom line. Optimized box configurations also reduce corrugated inventory requirements and waste, while increasing handling and transportation efficiencies. Learn why leading brands embrace Smart Packaging for a Healthy Planet®.
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Packsize International Inc.
3760 Smart Pack Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
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Website: https://www.packsize.com/
