The global plastics treaty is moving again. After the delegations' meeting in Bangkok on September 27–30, 2026, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee chair released a revised working text, and the resumed negotiating session (INC-5.4) is now on the calendar for March 2027. No final treaty exists yet, but the direction of travel is clear enough that packaging tape buyers should start pr...
Every carton you ship is a billboard you already paid for. Custom printed tape puts your logo, handling marks, or brand colors on every box at a fraction of the cost of printed cartons — but only if you specify it correctly. Washed-out prints, off-brand colors, and pallets of unusable tape usually trace back to the same handful of specification mistakes. This guide walks through them in the ...
The cheapest quote is rarely the cheapest tape. When three suppliers quote “the same” carton sealing tape at three different prices, the specs behind those prices are usually not the same at all — different units, different test methods, different things left unsaid. Some of it is innocent; some of it is not. Either way, here is how to normalize competing quotes before you compar...
Switching tape suppliers is where procurement savings go to leak. The new tape is cheaper on paper, then the trial rolls behave differently, the line operators complain, mixed inventory causes confusion, and three months later purchasing quietly reorders from the old supplier at the old price. None of that is inevitable. A structured transition — qualify, overlap, brief, lock — gets yo...
Filament tape looks simple — a plastic film with glass fibers running through it — so buyers often spec it the way they buy commodity packing tape: pick a tensile number, pick a width, done. The failures that follow are rarely the tape’s fault. They trace back to the same five specification mistakes, and each one is cheaper to fix on paper than in the field. Here they are, in the...
Two dates, fifty-nine days apart, are both in the rear-view mirror now. On 12 August 2026, the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation — PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — became generally applicable. On 10 October 2026, REACH Annex XVII entry 79 began restricting PFHxA in food-contact paper and board. If you buy packaging tape for goods bound for Europe, the compliance conversation w...
Most case sealers are not bought wrong because the machine is bad. They are bought wrong because the buyer sized for an average day and then met a peak season. A machine that idles in September becomes the bottleneck in November: changeovers eat the shift, operators revert to hand taping, and the "automation" you paid for sits bypassed at the end of the line. Peak-season planning starts with three...
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