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.
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.
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.
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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.
Ecological Fibers is announcing a price increase on all orders placed on or after May 1, 2021.
The re-opening of the economy has triggered an inflationary environment and over the past 3 months, transportation costs and virtually all of the materials we source have increased - in some cases dramatically. We have no option but to offset these additional costs in our product pricing going forward.
Generally speaking, increases on our Rainbow® Uncoated and Coated Papers, Textiles, Flocked Paper, and PU products will be in the 3-5% range.
We continue to invest in our operations to improve efficiency and are currently preparing to install equipment into our Massachusetts facility towards this goal.
Please contact your Sales or Customer Service Representative with any questions you may have. We appreciate your support and as always will do our best to minimize the impact on our customers.
Ecological Fibers
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