Case Study
A few months ago Polythene UK was awarded a tender to supply 50 tonnes of 250% cast machine stretch film per year to a national company. Each roll consists of 2,000 metres which, when machine stretched, gives the client a 5,000 metre yield.
We know our pricing was good – that’s why we won the tender. We know our product is great – we supplied our exclusive Polylite film, so when we sent in a few trial rolls we were shocked that the feedback was poor! The client reported that the yield from each roll was low and our film was baggy?
James personally went to investigate…
What he found were 4 x power pre-stretch turntables which were set for the clients’ previous film – a 200% stretch. The fact that each machine was only stretching to 200% caused multiple problems. Firstly the yield per roll was down from 5,000 metres to only 4,000 metres and most importantly our film, which has been especially designed in order to maximise yield needs to be stretched to the full 250% in order for it to achieve the high performance you would expect.
Conclusion
By simply tweaking the control switch on each machine by no more than 8° and starting the run again with our Polylite film, James immediately increased yield by 1,000 metres per roll. Additionally, once properly stretched our Polylite film performed perfectly.
SAVING:
1,000 extra metres = a 20% increase in yield, which takes the client’s yearly usage from 50 tonnes down to 40 tonnes.
40 tonnes at today’s rate of ~£1,350 per tonne gives this client an annual saving of £10,800 and because he has chosen to use Polylite cast machine stretch film, an equivalent CO2 reduction of 20.8 tonnes.
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This month’s example of how our consulting service has benefited our clients.
Case Study
One nation-wide client was making the classic mistake of buying their Cast Machine Film on heavy duty cores which results in less film per roll. Also, the film they were buying was once again over-specified for the job it was doing.
Additionally, they were paying for the pallets at the point of delivery. Something needed to be done!
The simple changes we made and resulting savings are outlined below:
SAVINGS MADE:
Down gauging of Cast Machine Film – 13%
Price saving – 10%
Lighter cores – 0.4%
Free pallets – 0.4%
Total Saving: an impressive 23.8%
So saving 23.8% on an average spend of £1500 per tonne = £357 per tonne cheaper, equivalent to a reduced price of £1143 per tonne.
This client was buying 120 tonnes per year so these figures equate to a massive annual saving of £42,840
We were also able to offer this client a fixed price on 48 tonnes of film over 3 months (a period of time in which polymer prices were guaranteed to rise) which we store for them and deliver anywhere in the UK on a 2-3 day service.
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As outlined in last month’s newsletter, we are going to give you one example per month of how our consulting service has benefited our clients.
Packaging Consultation Case Study
One particular client was buying 150,000 top sheets for their pallets per year. They were buying a .33 kg (500 gauge – 125 micron) film which came delivered on heavy duty cores.
This film was completely over-specified for the job it was doing – we switched the client to a co-extruded, PL500 Polylite film, which is thinner but offers the same strength.
The resulting savings from this simple change were astronomical and are outlined below:
Original Film
.33 kg (125 micron) x 150,000 sheets = 49.5 tonnes of LDPE
Polylite Film
PL500 = 31.68 tonnes of LDPE
So saving 17.82 tonnes of LDPE per year. Multiply that with an average price of £1700 per tonne
= A FINAL SAVING OF ~£30,000 per year.
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