The quality of the plastic packaging available on the market has declined in recent years. Why?
The market often succumbs to the need for immediate savings, and is ready to give up quality, performance and even safety.
It must be said, in fact, that choosing very low-cost raw materials or products means losing some mechanical and barrier characteristics, that could lead to damage and contamination of the products to be packaged.
Asian competition
Everybody knows it but nobody says it openly: the EU suffers from competition from cheap Asian products. That is, of course, if we are willing to compare different products and performances. It is never to be believed, and it is not so obvious to say so, that buying a cheap product from Asia, you get a film of comparable quality to most European ones.
Indeed, the low prices of imported products result from the availability of cheap manpower, but also from the choice of low-quality raw materials and, of course, the use of production processes and technologies that are not state-of-the-art.
The consequences of competition from the East on EU products
EU producers, in order to resist the wave of low-price (and low-performance) competition from Asia, have split into two strands of philosophy (and product): those who, in order to survive, have chosen to lower quality and prices, buying raw materials from abroad and cutting back on technology and processes, and those who have instead decided to position themselves in a different market niche, with higher demands and thus unavoidable quality and performance requirements.
Decofilm chooses to stand strong in quality and performance
Over the years we have confirmed to our customers the consistent quality of reliable products they can count on. Our philosophy is simple and very concrete: no health risks, maximum performance and best value for money.
It is not easy, guaranteeing all this, but it has always been our choice.
DCLP: an example of unique quality
Our DCLP is a high-efficiency heat-shrinkable film that increases production speed by 30% thanks to its welding time of only 0.01 seconds.
The DCLP has outstanding features including:
- maximum shrinking speed (optimisation of shrink tunnels)
- high efficiency: no need to repack products due to malfunctions
- reduction of waste: no more throwing away reels still packed because they are defective
- 20% reduction in shrink and sealing temperatures
- improved performance and better mechanical and thermal balance: widest operating window on the market
- sustainable and recyclable: DCLP is non-irradiated
- lighter packaging: minimum thickness of 9 microns
- high runnability: up to 150 pieces per minute
Is spending less really saving?
After rescuing several manufacturers who have fallen victim to buying poor quality products, we really feel like asking this question: is cheaper really cheaper?
In the PRACTICAL cases we have dealt with, we have faced numerous problems: a high amount of waste, delays in production also due to the need to repeat packaging several times, returns due to unsatisfactory final output in terms of mechanical protection and barrier effect (think of food that deteriorates before its expiry date).
Beyond the important ethical issue, which should make the industry choose to always guarantee safety for all, we believe that, even on a purely economic level, it is always wiser to consider the advantages and disadvantages of a quality purchase by looking at the entire production process and its marginality.
Choosing well does not mean saving money, it means earning money!