Specialty packaging and labeling equipment and supplies are specialized or proprietary machines, materials, products and accessories for packaging and labeling applications. Specialty packaging equipment is used to fill and seal bags, jars, boxes, tubes, bottles, capsules, trays, and cans. Machine types include: skin packaging equipment, shrink wrappers, vacuum sealers, capping equipment, case erector equipment, case sealing equipment, stretch wrapper equipment, and textile packaging equipment. Specialty labeling equipment is used to dispense, print, and apply labels at various levels of automation. Machine types include: hot glue labeling machines, pressure sensitive labeling machines, and shrink sleeve labeling machines. Many other types of specialty packaging equipment and specialty labeling equipment are also available. Industry-specific specialty packaging and labeling equipment and supplies are used in chemical processing, textile production, and semiconductor manufacturing.

Specialty packaging and labeling equipment and supplies encompasses specialized or proprietary versions of standard packaging and labeling equipment. There are many different types of specialized packaging machines. Examples include accumulators, palletizers, de-palletizers, and tape dispensers, as well as machines for batching, bagging, banding, box making, bundling, capping, and cartoning. Specializing closing, cleaning, collating, combining, counting, and decorating machines are also available. Specialty form, fill, and seal machines are often available from suppliers of specialized equipment for foaming, inspecting, labeling, marking, sealing, shrinking, strapping, sorting, unloading, and wrapping. Specialty labeling machines include label applicators, devices used to dispense, apply, or print and apply labels to packages. Specialty labeling equipment ranges from simple, manual dispensers to fully-automated print and high-production units.

Selecting specialty packaging and labeling equipment and supplies requires an analysis of the goods to be processed and available packaging materials. Specialized packaging materials are available for liquids, powders, consumer packaging, and bulk or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) shipments. Specializing labeling equipment can mark specialized substrates. Specialty packaging supplies include products such as aerosol containers, bags, pouches, bottles, jars, boxes, cartons, cans, capsules, cartridges, cases, cups, trays, drums, kegs, pails, pallets, tubes, vials, and intermediate bulk containers (IBC). In some cases, closing method is important consideration when selecting specialty packaging and labeling equipment and supplies. Caps, lids, corks, glues, heat seals, nails, staples, tapes, tucks, and folds are just some of the closing methods used with specialty packaging and labeling equipment and supplies. Specialty labeling supplies include both specialty labels and the specialty inks to print those labels.