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Grounded Blog
1y ago
Welcome to our latest supply chain update. Given the ongoing challenges facing global supply chains, our aim is to give you the information you need to help you plan ahead and minimize disruption to your business.
In this update we cover these topics:
Global supply chain trends in the packaging industry
Production and sea freight lead times
Tips to help make sure you don’t run out of packaging.
Global supply chain trends in the packaging industry
The great supply chain disruption continues with ongoing port congestion particularly in the US, equipment shortages, and delays to departure date ..read more
Grounded Blog
1y ago
Grounded Packaging is a supplier of compostable and recycled coffee packaging
Businesses often come to us wanting to be told what the ‘right’ solution is, and unfortunately, the answer to that is almost always ‘it depends.‘ Everything has its pros and cons regardless of what people will tell you, and that extends to functionality, cost, and also sustainability factors like carbon footprint and end-of-life.
From a purely sustainability perspective when we look at material solutions we evaluate two core factors.
Carbon
We calculate the carbon footprint of each packaging solution from raw mater ..read more
Grounded Blog
1y ago
With 2022 now upon us, a number of our customers are now in the throes of planning production for the year ahead.
Our January ‘22 supply chain update provides the latest snapshot of market conditions to aid in your decision-making. Overall we are seeing the disruptions of 2021 starting to ease as nations and industry develop strategies to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
In this update we cover three key areas;
1. Chinese New Year (23rd Jan → 10th Feb)
2. Production lead times
3. Global logistics update
With the Year of the Tiger fast approaching it would be remiss of us not to remind you h ..read more
Grounded Blog
1y ago
Sustainability in packaging can be a complex business.
There is a lot of noise around what is the “right” approach. Everywhere you look there is competing, erroneous, and often self-serving information. As a business we get asked this all the time and as inconvenient as it is the answer is invariable, ‘it depends’.
It depends on quite a number of factors that are different from one business to another so we have built a risk-based framework to help inform that process. Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet, but there is better and there is definitely a wrong way.
Broadly we encourage our cu ..read more
Grounded Blog
1y ago
Given the current challenges with global supply chains and their fragility being exposed by the pandemic, we want to ensure your business can front foot the conditions ahead.
In this update we cover off three key areas;
1. Carrier Trends
2. Ports Congestion
3. Chinese New Year
Tracking: Carrier Trends
Where there is demand, supply is sure to follow.
US imports are so strong that American consumer demand is pulling available capacity away from other trade lanes, disrupting global supply chains.
Small carriers getting a bigger piece of the pie. High Transpacific market pricing is attracting n ..read more
Grounded Blog
1y ago
Grounded Packaging offers a range of bio-based plastic packaging solutions
Traditional Oil Based Plastics
The difference between plastics and bio-plastics is not well understood. In this article, we attempt to break down some of the basics.
The word ‘Plastic’ comes from the Greek word Plastikos and literally means flexible, or capable of being moulded. Plastics are essentially long chains of polymers (small chains of stuff hooked together), and these are created by a chemical process refining petrol or oil. Currently, the production of plastic represents around 6% of total oil production or th ..read more
Grounded Blog
1y ago
Here’s where to add dieline to your custom eco-packaging artwork.
Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to add artwork to your dieline and prepare it for production.
How to get your artwork right?
At Grounded we want to ensure you get things right the first time round. And dielines are a way to ensure every detail of your packaging design is communicated to our production team.
Not all dielines are the same
It’s also important to note that depending on the format and material the dieline specifications will vary due to the nature of the materials being employed.
Easy peasy. Lemon squ ..read more
Grounded Blog
1y ago
Grounded Packaging specializes in providing eco packaging, with the aim to help reduce plastic waste.
Plastics Are A Polarising Subject
Plastics have been pivotal in shaping the modern industry.
They are cheap.
Extremely versatile.
And they have been put to use extensively in almost every corner of every industry.
As a result, plastic production has skyrocketed, with the annual total expected to reach 622 million tonnes by 2034, up from 311 million tonnes in 2014.
However, you can have too much of a good thing, and that is most certainly the case with plastic. 95% of packaging is used o ..read more
Grounded Blog
1y ago
Ali once said “the fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there in the park, long before I dance under the lights”.
The aim of this supply chain report is simple. Prepare your business for the conditions ahead with the data you require to make informed decisions.
The first challenge:
Expect delays as supply chains bottleneck
You don’t need to look too far to see the impact the pandemic had wreaked on the movement of goods and services both locally and internationally over the last 18 months. Whether it’s parts for your car, vaccines, a new phone ..read more
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1y ago
Get packvertising with our fully customizable sustainable packaging range.
Now, this might seem a little unorthodox but before jumping into these 7 packvertising tips it’s probably best to take a step back.
Close your eyes and think back to the last time you were in a supermarket aisle or browsing online – out of the thousands of products you passed, only very few captured your attention enough to get you to add them to your cart. In fact, you probably can’t even recall why you chose that item. There’s a reason for that and it relates to the emotive function of the brain.
It’s not ..read more