COVID-19 has changed our lives without asking permission. Science tells us that the virus survives only 3 hours on plastic but 24 hours on cardboard. We can’t go back and fix things so what can we do? How about – by helping you stay safer and saving money as you reuse boxes to save the environment? Take advantage of our COVID-19% discount on all shopping cart orders for Box Latch™ Products through May 31, 2020. Receive a 9% discount for company POs...
Last year, 300,000 fewer tons of corrugated containers were recycled in the USA than in the year before, even as domestic consumption increased by 3.5%, according to the American Forest & Paper Association. An industry trade body has warned that the UK could be hit by a national cardboard shortage as local governments suspend recycling collections. This is a result of pressures caused by the coronavirus outbreak. waste360.com/recycling/coronavirus-could-spark-cardboard-shortage-uk. The same shortages appear likely in other countries where Covid-19 is altering supply chains and recycling centers. packaginginsights.com/news/ds-smith-fights-covid-19-with-fast-tracked-safety-boxes-but-cardboard-shortage-looms.html Box Latch™ Products...
Box Latch™ Products is working hard to “Revolutionize the worldwide use and reuse of boxes and cartons.” The winner of our drawing in this “Box Reuse Challenge # 1” will receive $1,000 of Box Latch™ products. If you are reusing your boxes, we would love to hear from you. Send a picture or two and brief description of the boxes you are reusing, how many times you are reusing them and, if possible, the financial savings to: info@boxlatch.com. Our experience has been that...
In February Daniel Smith from Packaging World contacted CEEO, Jim Wilson, out of the blue. He was interested in finding a case study that illustrated how corrugated boxes could be reused. Dan found us at boxlatch.com and was intrigued with what he saw there. Jim with Alicia at PackExpo East in Philadelphia One week Before COVID-19 Shut Everybody Down During the week before Covid-19 shut down nearly all the trade shows in the USA, Jim met with Alicia Pettigrew, Manager of Product Strategy at...
A prior blog reported how production manager, Tony DeVoy, at TYRI Americas in Stevens Point, WI made use of our Box Latches™. They found the latches were so useful that as soon as our Corner Clip & Stacks were invented, they put them to use, too. This report illustrates how TYRI’s systematic lean manufacturing makeover employed our clips helped reduce labor costs while growing production, reducing human injuries and eliminating worker frustrations. Efficiencies in Assembly Cells According to Mr. DeVoy, box flaps...
When Ken Turzinski co-owner of the Swedish TYRI Americas company in Stevens Point, WI returned from a Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP) trade show in Milwaukee during January of 2018, he showed then production manager Tony DeVoy a Box Latch™. His comment was, “Tony, would you have any use for a product that closes boxes like these without tape?” When Tony found how easy it was to use a Box Latch™, he immediately saw a use and placed an online...
Sometime in the mid-1990s “I had the pleasure of attending a full day conference learning from Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth” says Jim Wilson, CEEO of Box Latch™ Products. “Of all the speakers I have heard and books I have read, the E-Myth and Steven Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People have changed my life more than any others.” When asked “Why is that?” Jim responded, “Because Michael Gerber taught me to spend at least one hour every week...
With COVID-19 creating havoc with people’s lives and supply chains around the world, our Box Latch™ products can help minimize transmission of the virus. How so? Since they are plastic, Box Latch™ (BL) or Corner Clip & Stack (CC&S) can be cleaned and sanitized with ease. Additionally, closing boxes with tape requires handling tape guns, refilling the guns when they run out, rubbing one’s hands or fingers over the taped box to make sure it adheres fully and passing the gun on...
Covid-19 has changed the world as we know it very rapidly. It is still business as usual at Box Latch™ Products where we are filling orders from our shopping cart and purchase orders on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the two major trade shows at which we were going to be an exhibitor in the next three weeks have been cancelled. The first one, Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit in New York City, has been postponed from March 17-18 until September 22-23. The...
A joy that comes from diverse distributors surfaced yesterday. During a Zoom conference yesterday our Box Latch™ distributor in Japan illustrated their method of promoting our family of products. In November 2019, CEO, Jim Wilson, met with Mr. Akira Muroaka (owner) and Mr. Yoshi Mitsushima (General Manager) of the Nippon Systems, Corp. (NPC) in Osaka, Japan During yesterday’s monthly Zoom conference, Mr. Mitsushima showed Jim how NPC is promoting Box Latches™ and Corner Clips. He said our Japanese people expect products to...