Hub Expertise

Hub's one-stop shop philosophy makes it easy for our customers to do business with us and drives us to supply corrugated shippers when the need arises. Hub has the ability to provide laminated "B", "E", "F" and "N" Flute single face, laminated corrugated boxes utilizing our high-end printing and Liquid Ink technologies to enhance your packaging at retail.

Our team of experienced and motivated Project Managers is able to execute your most complex packaging projects. Our Project Managers are the focal point for all information and communication, internally and externally, to ensure that your packaging project runs smoothly and is delivered on time!

Hub’s team of structural and graphic designers helps create a seamless transition from your packaging challenge to the perfect packaging solution. We offer a full range of design services, including the following:

Our Structural Design Group, with over 30+ years of design experience, utilizes the latest Artios CAD/CAM software system, which drives a Kongsberg XL20 sample plotter table to create innovative and award winning structures for our customers.

Hub’s Graphic Design Studio has 65+ years of combined experience creating award-winning designs for clients. From album designs for Aerosmith to gift packaging for Crown Royal, we employ world-class designers to assist with the development of solutions to bring your products to market. Our Design Studio will create brand-targeted graphics to differentiate your packaging from the competition, then create photo-realistic renderings of what your finished package will look like, including your product. This economical graphics approval process allows you to specify your ideal design before incurring any prototyping costs.

Hub's Creative Department includes a professional Photography Studio, and we have produced brilliant photographs for some of the most recognized brands in the world. 

Hub's digital imaging group utilizes the latest in KODAK and ESKO pre-press computer-to-plate (CTP) technology. The digital CTP workflow, combined with our digital halftone proofing devices and our Color Management Program, provides our customers accurate and timely contract proofs. Our G7 Master Certification ensures that Hub's comprehensive color management system produces accurate reproductions of the approved contract proof at press time. Our KODAK Magnus Plate Setter produces thermal press plates providing unmatched precision and repeatability.  Hub Folding Box offers an FTP server for those clients who would rather use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program to send files via the Internet. This requires a customer to call or email to setup an account with us to be allowed to access our server.

Our Plastic Technology Group specializes in custom molded thermoform parts, and is completely integrated from design through final production. Our plastic Thermoforming team utilizes the latest Mastercam and Solidworks CAD systems to design prototypes and production tooling. The files are then sent to one of our many Mazak CNC machines, where our tooling is produced. Our team is focused on providing our customers with a one-stop solution that ensures the success of the final package!

Hub's focus on Product Development is to deliver award winning and innovative results to fulfill our customers' needs. New product developments include Hub's Liquid Ink Technologies, Hub's EZ-Box, Hub’s LOK-BOX™ technology, Hub’s Fresh-Lok, Hub's Blister-Pak, and specialty laminated materials that provide barrier and tear resistance for freshness and security. We look forward to working with you on your next specialty project!

Hub's primary focus when working with our partners is to provide complete supply chain evaluation and solutions. Our engineering and mechanical packaging team has installed 200+ packaging lines to help our partners improve filling and packaging line efficiency. Hub's program is designed to assist our customers in both the infant stages of launching a new product or to completely design a fully integrated automatic filling line. Hub prides itself on the partnerships we have developed over our long history, and we look forward to partnering with you!

Hub's Fulfillment and Contract Packaging teams provide additional one-stop shopping solutions for our customers. Our fulfillment operations are located in our Mansfield, Massachusetts, manufacturing facility. Our group has the ability to perform turn-key product fulfillment, including project management, automatic cartoning, product and display assembly, EAS source tagging, shrink wrapping and automated saché or card placement.

Hub is a G7 Master printer, and utilizes the latest press technology from KBA and Heidelberg to provide the highest quality of sheet-fed offset and flexographic printing. All of our presses incorporate closed loop color control and scanning spectrophotometry to maintain color consistency from sheet to sheet. We pride ourselves on our ability to print on a multitude of stocks, including paperboard and plastic, to meet our customers' needs.

Hub's Liquid Foil™ technology is an innovative way to apply foil only where needed to enhance the graphic impact of your package at retail. Our state-of-the-art Vin-foil system provides limitless possibilities and efficiencies while applying foil and ink continuously, in one pass, at speeds of 15,000 sheets per hour!

Hub's innovative Liquid Ink Technologies provide you, our customers, with creative printing techniques to create more economical and environmentally friendly solutions that will enhance your brand at retail. These unique Liquid Ink Technologies allow us to utilize SBS in lieu of expensive foil, metallized polyester and holographic laminates, to achieve high end graphic solutions that can be accomplished in ONE printing pass!

These unique effects include Liquid Lustre™, Liquid Shimmer™, Liquid Emboss™, Liquid Diffraction™, Liquid Foil™, Liquid 3D™ and Liquid Effects™.

More information on these print technologies is available by clicking on the INNOVATION tab in the main menu.

Hub achieves some of the most intricate Hot Foil Stamping in the packaging industry today. We have the latest in Bobst flat bed and rotary equipment to meet the challenging and complex requirements of our customers!

Hub uses the latest Bobst equipment with power register technology to ensure that while embossing or debossing, each sheet is perfectly registered and has the detail our customers have come to expect from our experienced team. Whether we emboss or deboss inline or offline, we push the limits of our state-of-the-art technology to achieve the desired results.

Hub has the ability to provide laminated "B", "E", "F" and "N" Flute single face, laminated corrugated boxes utilizing our high-end printing and Liquid Ink technologies to enhance your packaging at retail.

Hub has invested in the latest Bosbst die cutting and blanking technology to achieve the efficiencies in productivity and throughput required to be competitive in today's packaging market. Our BOBST equipment uses the latest power register technology to ensure we achieve the highest quality available in the industry.

What's in the box is just as important as the box itself! Hub's windowing capabilities allow us to apply a variety of windows to add a new dimension to packaging, and provide an effective way to display your product and convey information to your consumer. In this respect, your product will receive ultimate visibility on the shelf. Hub has the capacity to apply both rigid or flexible windows to the final packaging solution. Our team will work with you to decide which visibility you prefer to best showcase your product!

Hub has invested in state-of-the-art Bobst gluers that provide different options for your packaging solutions. All gluers are equipped with code readers, window and inline glue detection, and have high speed turnaround, which helps to reduce your costs.

Hub's in-house plastics operation is completely integrated, from design through final production of the thermoformed components. The group utilizes Mastercam and Solidworks CAD systems to design the product, then the design files are sent to the CNC machines on the plant floor, where the prototypes are produced. After final approval of the prototypes, production tooling is produced (seen above), and production of the thermoformed components is performed. We can then assemble or ship independently, depending on our customers' needs.

Hub offers our customers the opportunity to visit our Mansfield manufacturing facility for a two-day course, during which they learn about the various disciplines required to execute a successful package. Customers spend time in every department, and leave with valuable and practical knowledge of printing and converting that can't be gained on any college campus!