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Comprehensive Troubleshooting Guide: Quality Issues with Rigid Packaging Bottles
This guide provides a structured approach to address common quality issues in rigid packaging bottles.
Each section includes the issue, troubleshooting steps, solutions, and preventive measures to ensure high-quality production and minimize defects.
If Factories Don’t Return to US Now, They Never Will
The Chips and Science Act that President Biden signed earlier this month is just the latest indication that the planets are aligning for a return of manufacturing to the US. Proponents have pushed for so-called reshoring for years, but it has never quite panned out....
China shipments are way down, but US Ports are still struggling
Canceled sailings, stuck vessels, warehouse prices show U.S. ports are still struggling KEY POINTS An increase in container vessels anchored off of Savannah and Houston is one sign of a global shipping industry that has moved more cargo away from the U.S. West Coast....
Embracing Reusable and Refillable Packaging
Lee Metters, Group Business Development Director, Domino Printing Sciences (Domino), explores the topic further in the below article. In recent years, governments worldwide have emphasised the need to shift towards a circular economy for packaging, with a particular...
Sourcing Post Consumer Resin: Six Considerations
Ask many of the world's leading brands about their sustainable packaging plans and they will tell you: they aim to make their packaging 100% reusable or recyclable by 2025. More specifically, many plan to source post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials—such as post...
Polypropylene returning to ‘widely recycled’ list
Polypropylene is once again being considered to be "widely recycled" by an on-package recycling information system that had previously downgraded the material. How2Recycle, a Sustainable Packaging Coalition program that oversees a recycling identification system that...
Peak shipping season ahead of the holidays is about to begin for a volatile supply chain
KEY POINTS Port congestion and longer container wait times are resulting in higher ocean shipping spot rates on some trade routes, price increases which ultimately flow through to the consumer. FBX Dry Baltic Index rates for the China/U.S. East Coast route are at...
Polystyrene, polypropylene and PET dominate resin news
North American commodity resin markets were varied in June, with prices for two materials up, one down and two flat. PET bottle resin continued its incredible pricing surge in 2022 by jumping 13 cents in June. Prices for the material were up 6 cents in May and now are...
Supply Chains Inching Back to Normal Brace for Headwinds of Softer Demand
Shipping strains are on the mend, but a painful spell of weaker demand might be next. Rock guitarist Jack White, who extended his “Supply Chain Issues Tour” into October, might want to name his band’s next road trip after a different villain. That’s because supply...
Understanding the causes of shipping delays
Once considered a mortal sin in eCommerce, shipping delays are now part of the new norm. Supply chain crisis” has become a buzzword; even high schoolers mention it now. What factors have led to cargo ship delays in 2022 and what can your businesses do to adjust. Every...
Volume Resin Prices Move in Different Directions
PE, PP, PVC, and ABS prices slump, while PS, PET, PC, and nylons 6 and 66 prices rise. Heading into June, the pricing trajectory for volume commodity resins was once again mixed. While prices of PE, PP, PVC, and ABS were trending downward, prices of PS, PET, PC and...
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