The global plastics treaty is moving again. After the delegations' meeting in Bangkok on September 27–30, 2026, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee chair is expected to release a second iteration of his 'Aid to Negotiations' text ahead of INC-5.4, 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 trav...
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...
A strapped pallet arrives with the tape still on it — and the load still shifted. Or a bundle of steel cable reaches the customer with adhesive smeared across a finished surface that was supposed to stay clean. In both cases the tape did what its datasheet said it would do. The buyer read the wrong line. We wrote this article because these are the five mistakes we see most often, and each on...
The machine idled in September. In November it became the bottleneck: changeovers eating the shift, operators reverting to hand taping, the automation you paid for sitting bypassed at the end of the line. The machine was not bad. It was bought for an average day, and then it met a peak season. We size machines for the day they will actually be judged on — the ten worst days of the year &mdas...
A carton can seal perfectly in your warehouse and still arrive opened, crushed, or quietly re-taped. That is not a mystery. Between your bench and the destination it gets stacked, dropped, trucked, put in a container, unloaded, and handled again — through humidity and temperature swings a domestic shipment never sees, and sometimes sitting at the bottom of a stack for weeks. Short version: s...
The first lift tells the truth about a bundle. Lift it slowly, once, and watch the straps. A strap that creeps, peels, or cuts on the first lift will fail on the tenth — and it will fail somewhere you cannot reach it, on a truck or at a customer’s dock. Everything in this article is about making that first lift boring. In short: wrap-around bundles take our mono-directional tape (JLT);...
Fulfilment punishes slow sealing in a way wholesale shipping does not. Orders are small, mixed, and urgent. Carton sizes change every few minutes. And the person opening the carton is a customer, not a warehouse — a torn, messy, or resealed-looking parcel becomes a review, a return, or a fraud claim. Short version: speed comes from removing decisions from the bench, not from hurrying. One pr...
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