Congratulations are in order for South Korea. Thanks to the job its government and population have done to manage COVID-19, the Korea MAT trade show was held in Seoul July 27-29, 2020. This may be the only country in the world where in-person trade shows are occurring this summer. Thank you Steeve Byun for detailing our Box Latch™ Products to hundreds of visitors including reps from Kia, Hyundai, LG, Lotte, and Samsung. Check out the video below to see a demonstration of...
ISO 9001 Series, AS 9400, ASQ, QMS, and Six Sigma Companies- Looking for a handy and economical way to identify your processes? Box Latches™ provide a convenient way to seal and reopen corrugate boxes without damaging the box, saving hundreds if not thousands of dollars on containers and mistakes. The Box Latch™ family comes in five colors and can be used to identify various processes. An example of how one of our clients use the latches: Black: Products to be inspected Red: ...
Want to hear a story about a costly marketing mistake? Make-believe your name is Jack, it’s a warm summer day and in comes a call from an unfamiliar individual. “This is Joyce from Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland. Kathy is impressed with your unique Box Latch™ gadgets and thinks they should be promoted all over the world. She is inviting you to come to California for an interview on her TV show highlighting sustainability products.” What would you do? Be flattered that...
Box Latch™ Products’ COO, Jack Wilson, announced today that Mr. Nick Klein of Klein Foods Inc. in Marshall, Minnesota walnutgrovemerc.com was the winner of the Worldwide Box Reuse Challenge. His company’s staff will be receiving their choice of $1,000 of Box Latch Products. Click boxlatch.com/shop to see the innovative, Green, supply chain, box reuse solutions from which they have to choose. Nick’s entry included this photo with the statement below it. “We’ve been using your products for a handful of years now...
Do you move boxes from Point A to Point B on pallets and then reopen the boxes? If the answer is, “Yes,” why not save money, time and the environment using Box Latches™? Businesses that move boxes on pallets typically rely on taped flaps and shrink wrapping to provide security. When the opened boxes have to be closed after calibration, for quality assurance testing, or to complete secondary processing steps, the flaps must be reclosed. If new tape is added, it...
With PPE in short supply at the same time as the emerging worldwide box shortage, our Box Latch™ Products are at the forefront of the BPE (Box Protective Equipment) movement. Never heard of BPE? You’re not the first. Neither had we until we invented this phrase and some talking boxes to explain it. We’re calling that “Box Talk.” The shelter-in-place world is requiring massive shipments of boxes. Shortages are looming as recipients destroy them and COVID-19 shuts down recycling centers. As...
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...
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...