Duncan Mclaughlin

Great food only stays great in the right packaging. Food is finicky and its packaging requires focus. Nextera is a national food packaging supplier built for food processors. While others chase business in janitorial chemicals, sanitation supplies, or packaging for other industries, we’re obsessed with one thing: connecting the food you're passionate about to the people you care about. Like your food, your packaging deserves a perfect recipe of its own. We bring three ingredients to the table. How you use them, that’s up to you. > Food-Focused Distribution. Buying packaging from Nextera feels less like ordering from a catalog and more like working with a consultancy. We pair manufacturer-level product expertise with food-safety-audited operations and precision logistics to get your food into the right packaging faster, with less trial and error. > Owned Brands. For more than fifty years, we've solved packaging problems for hundreds of food processors and turned that experience into brands of our own. Flext® (films and flexibles) and Formd® (custom rigid packaging) fill the gaps that stock options leave behind. This gives food processors access to expertise, products, and capabilities previously reserved for only the largest companies. > Processor Services. Better processes multiply packaging’s impact. That’s why Nextera helps with automation, pre-labeling, film converting and slitting, packaging development and testing, even retail strategy—so you can scale with one partner instead of managing a roster of niche vendors. No two processors are alike, and no two packaging recipes should be either. At Nextera, your recipe has a team of people behind it who know food, move fast, and never lose sight of keeping your product fresh, stocked, and selling.