JUST A FEW EXAMPLES OF HOW WE’VE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS
Reduced Loss + Increased Production & Profitability
One customer has reduced their loss due to scrap or rejected material in their mixing process from over 10% to virtually zero by utilizing Chemway’s batch inclusion, multi-ingredient preweighs. Working with Chemway, this customer has turned over all of their single and multi-ingredient mixing formulations to be pre-weighed by Chemway. Chemway currently manages in excess of 50 formulations for this customer, including single ingredient, multi-ingredient, various color pigments and liquid pre-weighs. Using Chemway’s precisely weighed formulations has allowed this customer to reduce their loss due to scrap material in their production process to almost zero. In addition, Chemway utilized its buying power with a number of its raw material suppliers to lower the overall acquisition cost of some of the raw materials. The combination of pre-weighs and supplying certain materials to the customer has resulted in increased production rates and profitability for the customer.
Batch Inclusion Bag Option Creates Additional Revenue Stream
One customer has turned to Chemway to provide all of their single ingredient preweighs weighing less than 25 lbs. The customer currently produces in excess of 100 million pounds annually of a mineral filler used in the rubber and plastics industries and has the capability in-house to provide their material to customers in super sacks and 50 lbs. bags; however, when a number of their customers approached them about providing their material in batch inclusion bags utilizing smaller weights, the company turned to Chemway to outsource all of their requirements for batch inclusion bags due to the fact that Chemway could do it more accurately and cheaply than our customer could. Offering the batch inclusion bag option to their customers has allowed this customer to charge a premium for their material in this type of packaging and as a result, the batch inclusion portion of their business is one of their more profitable lines.
Partnering to Create an Efficient Solution to Recycle Raw Materials and Reduce Costs
One customer approached Chemway about developing a process to screen waste powders generated in their manufacturing process to remove foreign particles and return the cleaned powders to the customer so that they could re-work them into their mixing process and recycle the material as opposed to sending the waste powders to a landfill. Chemway designed a screening process to remove the foreign material and then repackages the screen powders into batch inclusion bags which are returned to the customer to be re-used in their mixing process. This has resulted in a cost savings to the customer due to the fact that they are able to use the recycled material to replace a portion of their virgin raw material purchases. They have also greatly reduced their disposal costs by limiting the amount of material that must be landfilled.