"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?" – George Eliot, Novelist ..read more

“The first step to change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”  ~Nathaniel Branden ..read more

“The first step to change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”  ..read more

  “It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.” - Max Planck   Contamination of manufactured products is a broad-ranging subject. Let’s first review the definitions of “contamination” and, since even the definitions are topically wide, we’ve narrowed in to a couple that make sense for the manufacturing industry.   From Wikipedia: “Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that spoils, corrupts, infects, makes unfit, or makes inferior a material, physical body, natural environment, workpla ..read more

Discussion: CHIPS Act Hurdles ..read more

Discussion: The U.S. Government's $52.7 billion Chips for America Fund “Things do not happen, things are made to happen” - President John F. Kennedy     The U.S. Federal Government passed The Chips and Science Act, known around the industry as the Chips Act. This legislative action is historic, for the U.S. government to invest in an industry that has been run by private companies since its inception. With the recent supply chain problems and spying suspicions that arise with the use of foreign electronics, and to boost American competitiveness in this vastly growing key industry, t ..read more

  "Some of the greatest leaps humanity has made have been fueled by our greatest inventors, Americans who have changed the course of history with their brilliance and dogged perseverance." ~USPTO Director Andrei Iancu     2022 was an exciting year for the Intercept Technology Group and Intercept Packaging. Global Director, Keith Donaldson, was awarded a United States patent in April in the Insect Barrier category. This is a well-deserved reward for Donaldson’s years of relentless and dedicated pursuit in the advancement of INTERCEPT Technology™. More important is his success in ..read more

  Prepare for the Worst The 8 Questions Manufacturers Must Ask        Current supply chain delays have been reported and discussed extensively by news outfits and logistics experts, with predictions that these delays will continue for much longer. The "just-in-time" philosophy is no longer in play. With this in mind, it’s important to note: corrosive gases will always be in the ocean’s atmosphere; the amount of time spent in transit, especially via ocean freight, increases exposure and can affect the reliability of your product ..read more

        Listed below are some outstanding applications for recycled plastics. There are so many more to consider, but these piqued my interest. Commitments from industrial leaders to build products with recycled plastics help to create the market, generating incentive and adding value to industrial and consumer packaging produced with recycled materials ..read more

     There is a well-intended drive in motion to eliminate single-use packaging, because the world is choking on trash and it’s only getting worse. A very large part of the problem is that developed nations are shipping their trash to developing nations, which necessarily are the least prepared to manage it. Too often in the process, trash spills into waterways leading to oceans, disrupting and entangling animal inhabitants, and presenting a health hazard for the residents of these developing nations. All of these factors and more create a mess that is most imperative to solve ..read more