
Direct Mail
Capture your recipient’s attention with a thoughtfully designed direct mailpiece. Tension’s striking direct mail offerings enhance your campaign and come in a wide range of options, including interactive features, specialty papers, finishes, inks, and unique designs.

Printed Products
Tension’s product offerings go beyond traditional envelopes, encompassing a wide range of print marketing materials, including fliers, folders, and many other components of integrated marketing campaigns. We deliver the products you need to achieve the results you want.

Transactional Envelopes
Make a statement with your billing and other transactional mailpieces. Tension’s custom business envelopes can help you deliver your bills, invoices, statements or fundraising appeal that inform and engage your customers.

PACKAGING & AUTOMATION
Tension Packaging & Automation Delivers Solutions on a Promise.
We get it. Expectations are high. Tension Packaging & Automation demands excellence when developing protective packaging solutions. You’ll experience optimal, reliable, and repeatable performance with our broad range of packaging materials. Created by some the most tenacious and tough-minded people in the industry, they naturally developed products to be proud of … and products that fit their style.
ENVELOPE KNOW-HOW
An Envelope is a Statement
And whether it’s a billing statement or a direct mailpiece, we ensure each envelope is crafted with our unwavering commitment to quality, innovation and excellence.
Watch: How an Envelope is Made
Our Envelope Know How section is your reference point to learn about everything-envelope from size specifications to printing to production in our How an Envelope is Made video.


Our Reach
Tension is headquartered in Kansas City, Mo. with coverage throughout the US.
Our China and Taiwan locations make Tension one of the only US envelope manufacturers with an international presence.
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