Today our countdown moves to the Number 1 Need of Glass Suppliers and indeed Packaging makers in general. We started with Innovation, moved to Exclusivity, then down to Moulds and, from there, Forecast Accuracy. Payments terms followed, then Contract Length and, finally, we landed here with our number one need of … Volume!

Beyond any shadow of a doubt, Volume (or quantity) is the primary need of packaging manufacturers the world over because, in order to cover their very high fixed costs and generate a margin, they must utilise their production capacity to as close to 100% as is possible

“’Fill the Machines!” is a war cry heard routinely within manufacturing environments and never more so that right now with so much underutilised capacity due to COVID-19 and other hostile trading conditions.

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