Committed to Providing You the Safest and Finest Food Boards
We are proud to announce that we completed our annual AIB International food safety audit and have received a “Superior” rating (930 out of 1000 possible points). We have received a “Superior” rating every year that our food audits have been conducted.
This activity supports our formal corporate HACCP plan and continues to fulfill our obligation of providing the highest quality and safest direct food contact packaging products.
A growing portion of our business has been in market segments that use direct food contact packaging products (baking, seafood, cheese, etc.) These customers have increased their demand for audited, certified food safe manufacturing environments. To meet their requests and exceed their expectations, we proactively contracted with AIB International (American Institute of Baking) to perform annual audits of our manufacturing processes. In all four audits conducted to date, we have received “Superior” ratings ensuring that we provide the safest packaging products.
Lamitech Sales
Greif Is Raising The Prices On All Uncoated Recycled Board (URB) And Coated Recycled Board (CRB) Grades
Dear Mill Group Customer,
Greif is raising the prices on all uncoated recycled board (URB) and coated recycled board (CRB) grades by $50/short ton effective today with new orders placed.
Demand continues to remain extremely strong for our paperboard products, and our production and delivery costs continue to increase. Your sales representative will be contacting you soon to discuss this increase.
I would like to thank you for your continued commitment to Greif. Your business is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to servicing your needs with high quality paperboard products.
Lamitech Sales
Constrained supplies, higher freight costs, and continued strong demand fuel ongoing price increases
Constrained supplies, higher freight costs, and continued strong demand fuel ongoing price increases
Globally, during the pandemic, demand for the manufacturing sector plummeted drastically, paperboard being no different, faced the lack of demand. Now while the economy is recovering, the many markets and the paperboard market is experiencing an significant increase in demand. A sudden surge in demand has led to a major imbalance in the demand-supply chain. In addition there is a major shortage in the transportation & trucking availability and those costs have escalated tremendously in recent months, Another factor on the freight costs is most recently the fuel surcharge escalations of 35% due the increased cost of diesel fuel. Due to this gap, the cost of all raw materials has increased multiple times over the past several months, and just today most major paper mills are announcing another 6 to 8% price increase “Effective immediately” with more increases likely to come based upon our conversations with our mills in all paper and board grades. We are doing everything possible to limit these increases and avoid product flow disruptions. But unfortunately, that comes at a cost.
Please be assured that we will continue to evaluate all factors to identify and deliver premium products while controlling costs. We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding during this time. If you have any questions about your products specifically, please feel free to contact us.
Lamitech Sales
New Price Increases
March 01, 2021 - Several market factors, including transportation rates and the strengthening American paperboard market, have increased our costs significantly. This has affected our entire industry very quickly. Many of our industries and product categories are seeing rising material costs. We continually work to mitigate cost increases through greater efficiency and have maintained our current pricing on average for 2 years or more, unfortunately the current conditions are extreme and require us to act..
The exact increase varies between grades, but on average will be around 7-8% on current business and all product orders should request the current price. In addition based upon dialog with a variety of suppliers and market information we would also feel it necessary that you be aware that this adjustment might not be the only one this year. We will continue to keep you informed of potential changes in the industry and help reduce any impact this may cause. We have tried to minimize the increase as much as possible and if you have any questions, please contact your Lamitech representative.
We appreciate your ongoing support during the unprecedented times has presented to all of us. Lamitech is committed to servicing your account in this difficult and challenging environment.
Thank you again for your business!
Lamitech Sales
