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What is typically the smallest production batch size?
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What’s the issue with listing the CMO on the product label?
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Here is a professional-grade table-top tube sealer: http://www.TubeSealingMachine.com
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this is a great option for decorating tubes. pair it up with a professional level hot-air tube sealing machine and the results are outstanding. Now small runs of tubes with professional graphics/seal quality are possible.
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this printing service makes some really nice looking tube graphics. Pair it up with a professional hot air tube sealing machine and the results are incredible.
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couple options, either buy your own table-top tube sealing equipment or contract it out, best to use a company who specializes in tubes…
tube sealer machine for small runs: http://www.TubeSealingMachine.com
flat-rate tube filling for small runs: http://www.TubeFillSeal.com
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Amazing article.
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Thuja Occidentalis 3X HPUS
Symphytum Officinale 1X HPUS (Comfrey)
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Thanks for your input. Do you have any ideas on what flat-rate pricing somebody needing this service would be willing to pay for say 100 tubes, 250 tubes, 500 tubes, 1,000 tubes? (this would be a flat-rate price for just filling and sealing of the tubes. The customer would supply empty tubes, the product bulk and shipper boxes.)
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What pricing do you think customers would pay for a couple hundred tubes filled/sealed?
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Petrolatum would be very greasy on hands correct?
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@belassi do you have a website for your products?
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any products currently available for purchase you can recommend?
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- Short-run, small-batch Filling services for tubes/bottles/jars.
- Flat-rate pricing, fast delivery times.
- Large sourcing network for product development, formulation, manufacturing and packaging supplies.See more at: http://www.TheWholePKG.com
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David, do you do tube filling?
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This is a great show for packaging components.
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@ozgirl there are numerous tube suppliers that will sell small lots of tubes (100x - 1,000 tubes for instance). Have you tried that route?
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Do you believe there is a need for a raw material supplier to specialize in smaller volumes?
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How long are most raw materials good for on the shelf? it would seem a formulation lab could stock a bunch of raw materials (in small quantities if possible?) depending on the shelf life of said raw materials?
Are there any raw materials suppliers who concentrate on small MOQ’s? There are many primary packaging component suppliers and digital label printers that will sell in-stock packaging down to whatever quantities are needed. -
@Belassi, ultrasonic is working less often today with the new tubes coming to market (new multi-layer resins, injection molded IML tubes, etc.). Thermal impulse also does not work on some of the newer tube designs. Besides ultrasonic and thermal impulse will damage the tube graphics if decorated to the top of the tube seal. Hot air sealing is what’s used on high end production tube filling machines, most the tube suppliers develop their tubes for use on hot-air sealers. Hot-air sealing in a table-top, small machine format is fairly new to the market.
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@Microformulation - Your comment about more sophisticated (and more microbial resistant) packaging such as tubes is spot on. We are seeing a big increase in the amount of smaller clients wanting to package in squeeze tubes (bottles and jars allow contamination into the natural/organic products too easily). The problem is that cheap tube sealers (in the $1,500 price range) give a very unprofessional seal on the tube and make the product look amateur. There are now new tube sealers on the market which are table-top and use hot-air sealing thus giving the same professional sealing results (quality and looks) as found on large fully automated machines usually owned by larger contract manufacturers. These new table-top hot-air tube sealers are in the $10k - $15k price range which is still often times way too much for small companies to spend (let along having the technical labor and facility to run the machines).
So how about a service to help these smaller run sizes get to market…This new FLAT-RATE tube filling & sealing service can now accommodate these smaller clients with run sizes from 100 pieces and up, all using professional-level tube sealing machinery, performed in a clean-room environment. Same-day service is an option (customers send in the product bulk/empty tubes and filling/sealing can start right away).Any input you all have on the flat-rate pricing levels would be greatly appreciated!!! -
Digital printed labels may be your best option. You can buy in stock tubes by the box and just apply digital labels with a table-top labeling machine. Applying labels to tubes could be part of a flat-rate filling/sealing service such as this here.
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yes MOQ’s on packaging components can be an issue. When dealing with standard size tubes, bottles, jars, there are many in stock options with almost no MOQs. Filling often becomes the challenge in these situations.
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This is a good point Mark. Maybe just offering short-run filling services like this would be more profitable? let the customers send their pre-made bulk in gallons/drums/totes/etc.. What are your thoughts?
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any ideas on what flat-fees might work?