Arkansas Co-Packers to Make and Package Your Food Product: Jams, Salsa, Sauces, Pickles, Cookies, Pies, cakes, whatever!

Looking for Arkansas Co-Packers to Make and Package Your Food Product: Jams, Salsa, Sauces, Pickles, Cookies, Pies, cakes, whatever! in 2024?  Scroll down this page and  follow the links. And if you bring home some fruit or vegetables and want to can, freeze, make jam, salsa or pickles, see this page for simple, reliable, illustrated canning, freezing or preserving directions. There are plenty of other related resources, click on the resources dropdown above.  If you are having a hard time finding canning lids, I've used these, and they're a great price & ship in 2 days.

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Arkansas Co-Packers to Make and Package Your Food Product: Jams, Salsa, Sauces, Pickles, Cookies, Pies, cakes, whatever!

Arkansas Co-Packers: Want to Sell Your Salsa, Preserves, Jams, Etc.? Learn About Using A CoPacker to Prepare It!

If you want to make and sell your home-made preserves, salsa, spaghetti sauce, applesauce, apple butter, jams, jellies, or whatever, you will need a licensed kitchen to prepare and can the food. That's fine for relatively small quantities, and if there is a licensed kitchen to rent nearby at a good cost. See this page for shared use kitchens in Arkansas. But it may be less expensive (and less risky) for your new business to use a CoPacker to prepare their food, according to you recipe and process. 

What is a Co-Packer?

Co-packers manufacture and package foods for other companies to sell.  These products range from nationally-known brands to private labels.  Entrepreneurs choose to use the services of copackers for many reasons.  Copackers can provide entrepreneurs with a variety of services in addition to manufacturing and packaging products.  They can often help in the formulation of the product.  The copacker may function only as a packer of other people's products or may be in business with his own product line.  They may be, in fact, manufacturing several competing products.  The range of services available from a copacker will vary depending on the size and experience of the copacker and the type of facilities and the capacity of their plant.

Choosing a Co-Packer

You will want to choose a co-packer who has experience making the type of product and packaging that you need.  You may also want to choose a co-packer that is located close to you or your source materials and/or market or distribution centers to reduce costs.

See this page for much, much more about co-packers, like advantages, disadvantages and how to choose a copacker.

The following list consists of companies in Arkansas that have co-packing capabilities. This list is neither all-inclusive, nor is it meant to serve as an endorsement.

If you are a co-packer wishing to be added to this list, add your information here.

Arkansas Co-Packers

• El Pinto Foods LLC -  - Copacker, Organic/Natural, Vegetarian Salsa and Dips.
  10500 4th Street, Albuquerque, NM 87114. Phone: 505-898-1771. Fax: 505-890-0498. Email: sarah@elpinto.com. El Pinto Foods LLC offers hot-fill private label production for co-packing clients from our automated manufacturing facility on the property of iconic El Pinto Restaurant in the North Valley of Albuquerque New Mexico.  Automated for efficiency for small to mid sized companies - There are bigger co-packers out there that can do a lower price point, but can they do the volume you need? If you have a product in production and are ready to go to the next level, but cannot satisfy the minimums, El Pinto is the niche high quality manufacture you need.  SQF Certified - The factory follows SQF 2 certification requirements helping to document product safety, chain of ownership, and allowing your product to be sold in the largest retailers in the nation. Organic Certified - Our corporate culture believes in nutricious and healthy products that nourish the body. Although not everything we manufacture is organic, we do seek partnerships with companies with a similar belief, and provide high quality products to consumers.

Where can I find more information about canning?

For more than 250 specific, simple recipes with step-by-step directions and photos; and general information on canning and food preservation, see this page.