With a strong basis in manufacturing and financing, Lynid Hidegeger brings a holistic approach to the innovation of the product and operations. He is the Vice President of Products Department at Orbis Corp. , It is equipped with reusable plastic packaging products. Hediger with Orbis was more than 27 years old in a variety of engineering and administrative positions. In its current role, it supervises many functions of product management, marketing and engineering, and directing multi -functional teams in designing new products and market development. Hediger holds a master’s degree in engineering management from Milwaukee College of Engineering.
Q: How do you describe the current situation of the plastic packaging industry?
A: The packaging industry that can be reusable passes with a major transformation, which is formed through the necessities of sustainability, organizational transformations, technological innovation, progress in automation, work availability issues, and advanced customer expectations, which lead to increased opportunities in this field. Consumers today are looking to buy from sustainable brands, and this begins with how their products are transferred in the supply chain.
Q: What are the main advantages of using plastic containers and platforms instead of corrugated cartons and wooden platforms?
A: Sustainability comes to mind first. Reinstallable packaging from recycled raw materials can be recycled. It can be reused several times and can be recycled at the end of its useful life. Ultimately, companies want to transfer their products faster, safer and more effective, more sustainable and reusable to pay these benefits.
Recognition is solid, healthy, clean, comfortable, safer (no dust, fragments, or nails), and consistent dimensions, which makes them ideal for use by workers or automatic systems. Being reusable also makes adding and tracking potential (such as RFID signs) for packaging and possible contents. All of this leads to economic, operational and environmental benefits when displayed on the life cycle.
Q: Are plastic containers best suited for closed ring systems, or can they also be used for other types of shipments?
A: Reustericable packaging is an ideal choice for closed loop systems. However, we see the reuse of materials used in some applications in one direction as there will be no wood and paper profession sufficiently due to the regulations (i.e., a heat -processing processor requires international shipments) or performance problems (moisture that affects paper). There is also an existing and growing market for open assembly companies that use reusable plastic packaging as part of their rental programs for packaging in one direction.
Q: What is the typical life cycle of plastic containers, and what happens to them at the end of their lives?
A: This is very variable based on how to process the package. Our Odysse 408 line of reusable platforms travels over 400 trips in the supply chain compared to an average of 11 wooden platforms, according to the test conducted at Virginia Tech. With proper use, we usually see our products in the last hundreds of flights over five to 10 years.
At the end of its productive life, the product can be recycled, recycled and re -processed in a new package. Orbis offers customers to recycle us with the Orbis program, as we offer sales credits for future packaging purchases to return their used packages for us to recycle them.
Q: With fears related to plastic forever, is Orbis looking to make containers from biological decomposition materials?
A: While biological substances show a promise in many applications, our focus on building strong and recycling solutions that support a truly circular economy. Given the long service life and download requirements for our products, biological substances are a great risk to the product failure over time with the start of the material. In Orbis, we believe that the most sustainable package is the one that remains in use.
Q: What are the advantages of using plastic containers and platforms within automated systems?
A: There are many advantages, starting from the consistency of dimensions, which causes repetitive and reliable performance in these systems. There is no dust or debris that causes stopping or maintenance problems. Standing and strength allows stacking, even when pronunciation is only partially full, ease of transportation and dealing with a long service life. Tracking techniques like RFID [radio-frequency identification] Signs and barcode can be accurately placed so that sensors and vision systems used by automation are improved. In the reusable shelves of the product, we produce accurate shelves for very automatic assembly cells.
Q: How does plastic containers help improve cube products in storage and transport?
A: Reusable products are designed with cube efficiency in mind. For most customers, standard industry sizes such as GMA 40 x 48 or AIAG 45 x 48 effects work well to improve the product in each load, the number of objects on a mobile platform, and the number of platforms on a truck. Contained containers for unique applications that still improve cube requirements as well. The design of logistics services for storage and return to empty containers is also considered where the containers can nest or collapse to increase the quantities on a truck or density in the warehouse.
Q: What are the factors that companies should take into account when the switch weighs to the reusable package?
A: Companible companies should consider reusable packaging to the entire supply chain to understand how the product flow, evaluate their current packages to determine the areas of improvement, define meaningful measures to measure success, determine the appropriate product for application, define, rely, rely on them. [their] Packaging supplier to support a smooth conversion to the reusable packaging. They can also conduct life studies and return on investment (ROI) to justify the project, bearing in mind that flexible financing solutions are available to accelerate the return on investment.
