2018 Chinese Lunar New Year: The Year of The Dog

Chinese traditional new year always takes place on the second month of the year. In 2018, the first day of The Year of The Dog falls on Feb 16th. Let's see how we celebrate Chinese traditional Spring Festival:

[Annual Company Banquet] - February 13

[New Year's Eve] - February 15

[New Year] - February 16

[Go Back Work] - February 23

[Annual Company Banquet] - February 13

After hard working for a year, Easylock holds an annual company banquet to ring out the old year and ring in the new year. Different companies pick up different day to hold their annual company banquet.

[New Year's Eve] - February 15

On February 15, it's time for cleaning. We paste spring festival couplet and decorate our house.

New Year's Eve is similar to Christmas Eve, families who works in remote cities come back home and have a wonderful dinner together.

[New Year] - February 16

On the first day of the New Year, we go to visit our relatives. We give Lucky Money to the elder relatives to wish them a healthy and happy year, and give Lucky Money to kids to wish them a happy childhood and academic progress.

[Go Back Work] - February 23

After a week of day-off, we are ready for a new working year. Some companies starts on the 6th of the new year; some companies starts after Lantern Festival (the 15th of the Lunar new year). However, most of companies starts on the 8th day, because the number "8" means fortune and wealth in China. On this day, bosses will give all the staff Lucky Money and wish a prosperous new year.

Our whole team is all cheered up and are ready for the challenge of the new year now. You are highly welcomed to contact us if you are interested in doing business with us or if you need any further description of our products, please feel free to let us know.

Wholesalers' Guide: Can I Combine Different Easylock Food Containers into One Set?

There are not only single items, but also food container sets available in supermarkets and many online shops like Amazon, Walmart, WholesaleDeals. You might wonder: Can I choose the items I want and combine them into a hot-selling set? This answer is yes, Easylock provide customizing food container combination sets for customers.   

Why Wholesalers and Retailers Love Customized Food Container Sets?

There are many different benefits of combining food containers into a brand-new set: Saving shipping fees, stimulating consumption and enhancing competitiveness, you name it.

1. Reduce Shipping Fee
Shantou Leqishi Plastic Products Co.,Ltd, the 10-year-old food container manufacturer, develops a complete plastic food container series with a wide range of capacity, from 180ml to 4250ml. You can include the small food containers with lids into large plastic food storage containers. This will significantly reduce space and save up plenty of shipping fee.

2. Stimulate Consumption
A food container set can also stimulate consumption. Let's say you are looking for a double layer lunch boxes for your kid for his picnic and you find a lunch boxes with water bottles sets and remind that your kids need a new sports water bottle and choose the lunch boxes set finally. This product combination strategy can not only bring convenience to your customers but also boost consumption.

3. Enhance Competitiveness
If you have do some market research or wholesale food storage containers before, you will notice that there are many food containers with similar appearance. So, it is very likely that your customers will compare your products with others. If you combine a unique food container set that actually meet the demand of consumer, it is possible that your combination will improve competitiveness and help your business stands out in the market.

Here are a few sample food container sets and lunch boxes sets for you, please check when needed. To discuss more details, please feel free to contact us.

Best Packaging Solution for Plastic Food Storage Containers Wholesalers: Shrink Wrap? Cardboard Boxes?

What packaging material do you usually use to pack your products for transit and protection? According to the survey, cardboard boxes and shrink wrap are applied widely in different industry.

Choosing the right packaging for your business is essential. Here are several advantages of shrink wrap and corrugated cardboard boxes provided by the food container manufacturer in China - Easylock:

Advantage of Packaging Plastic Food Containers with Shrink Wrap
Benefits of Packaging Plastic Food Containers in Cardboard Boxes

Both shrink wrap and cardboard boxes are good packaging options that have various application and advantages. Which one is the best? It depends:

1. Waterproof Solution - Shrink Wrap

For packaging something vulnerable to moisture and water, let's say paper, electronics and more, watertightness are critical and should be one of the formost metrics. Corrugated cardboard boxes are made from paper and it gets weak when contact water. The fragile products inside is very likely to get damaged when transit. On the other hand, shrink wrap works perfectly to keep water inside.

2. Packing Heavy Stuff - Cardboard Boxes

Both shrink wrap and corrugated boxes can protect stuffs from dust and damage but when it comes to packaging heavy products, a strong packaging solution will be prefer. Cardboard boxes are a better choice when compared to shrink wrap because you can custom different types of cardboard to the strength you need: Single wall, double wall and triple wall box are customizable.

3. Cost-Effective Solution - Shrink Wrap

Heat shrink wrap is usually heating shrink wrap film to the product shapes while cardboard boxes are normally in rectangular or square shapes. So, shrink wrap packaging can safe more packaging material and space than corrugated cardboard boxes do.

4. For Branding Effects- Cardboard Boxes

If you choose corrugated cardboard boxes, you can customize your company logo, slogan, and color to increase visibility of your company. The branding effects are sustainable. As branding effects expand, customers will have a more unforgettable impressions and will associate the products with your brand. However, online CPC and TV commercials can boost your business in a short time but the advertising effect cease once the marketing campaign stopped.

Note: If you need to customize printing on cardboard boxes for food container, you need to know how to choose the correct packaging boxes for food containers.

5. Efficient - Shrink Wrap

Shrink wrap is more efficient than cardboard boxes because cardboard boxes need people to assemble, instead, there are shrink wrap machine which is quick to pack and there's no need for a direct operator. This will shorten lead time to some extend.

6. See Products Through Packaging - Shrink Wrap

Some consumers want to see the products before they decide to buy. Shrink wrap is a perfect packaging solution that can not only protect products from dust, water and impact, but also enables customers to see the products without unpacking.

Both packaging solutions, shrink wrap and corrugated cardboard boxes are available for packaging Easylock food containers, and customizable. You can choose the one that suits your need and discuss with our salesman for detail information.

Benefits of Packaging Plastic Food Containers in Cardboard Boxes

It's not a piece of cake at all to help your business reach more target audience and stand out in such a competitive marketplace. However, having a custom cardboard boxes that bears the company name and logo will help boosting your food storage containers wholesale marketing campaign to some extend. Read on to see why.

4 Benefits to Use Custom Cardboard Boxes

1. Protection
Custom corrugated boxes has a solid construction and offers you a worry-free experience during the delivery process of the products. Fragile items are safer when packaging in corrugated boxes.

2. Brand Identity
Custom printed boxes with company logo or slogans can increase visibility for your company without expensive advertising budget. The benefits outweigh the additional investment. Just compare the price of custom printed boxes and a 4-minute TV commercial. It's obvious, isn't it? As branding effects expand, customers will have a more unforgettable impressions and will associate the products with your brand like Amazon, Apple and Coca Cola.

3. Re-Order Information
To gain more repeat customers and potential customers, you can also print product info, company profile, address, official site and QR code on custom print box. Be aware that the more info your customers get, the more likely that will place an order.

4. Environmental-Friendly 
Choosing eco-friendly corrugated boxes that are recyclable can not only protect our planet and give ourselves a healthy environment, but also improve corporate reputation by choosing a green packaging solution.

Though custom corrugated boxes helps a lot on both transporting products but also improving brand awareness, it doesn't means that it's the only option. A great alternative of custom printing boxes is shrink wrap, which is more economic but also works perfectly as a packaging solution. In the next post, we will see which is the best packaging solution for your plastic food containers according to your business strategy.

How to Choose The Right Packaging Boxes for Food Containers

Cardboard boxes and corrugated cardboard boxes are popularly used for packaging and transporting by food container manufacturers.

Types of Boxes Used for Products Packaging

1. To Package Single Items
For single items, no matter it is plastic products, glass products or other products, we load products into corrugated boxes that fits the size.

2. To Package Gift Set or Multiple Pack
For the packaging of multiple pack, take GS033, the 16 pack plastic food containers set for example, we load products into custom color boxes and then corrugated boxes.

Here are some basic knowledge that food container wholesalers need to know on how to choose the correct packaging boxes for your products.

How to Choose Food Containers Packaging Boxes

1. Size
Size of corrugated cardboard boxes should match the products perfectly. The size is critical on two aspects. On the one hand, a fitting corrugated cardboard box can perfectly surrounds the products and protect them from too much impact and damage; On the other hand, oversize cardboard boxes might add freight because the volume has increased.

2. Strength of Boxes
There are various of boxes strength to pack products in different weight, such as single wall, double wall and triple wall box. Our regular packing corrugated boxes are already safe for transporting our glass set to the world, not to mention plastic ones. If you have specific demand on the corrugated boxes, please feel free to let us know.

3. Custom Printing, Color 
If you have your own brand and want to build up brand awareness by adding more info of your brand, you can contact us to customize logo printing and color of the food containers packaging boxes.

For more benefits of using cardboard boxes as the inner boxes for your food storage containers, please check: Benefits why cardboard boxes worth our choice. However, if you are looking for a alternative of cardboard boxes packaging, to package food containers with heat shrink wrap is also a good choice.

Advantage of Packaging Plastic Food Containers with Shrink Wrap

In the previous article, we've introduced you abundant applications of shrink wrap for different products, such as a box of chocolate, a printing magazine, a set of coca cola, a fruit basket, a pair of battery, you name it. Some plastic food container manufacturers also offer shrink wrap as a packaging solutions for wholesalers all over the world. Don't have a clue why shrink wrap is so widely applied? Read on to see the reason.

Advantage of Using Shrink Wrap as A Packaging Solution

1. Affordable Price

1). Cost of Shrink Wrap is Reasonable
The price of shrink wrap is more reasonable than other packaging options like cardboard boxes. It will save lots of your budget if you choose shrink wrap as your wholesale packaging solution. The more the quantities are, the larger the discount would be.

2). Lower Freight Because Product Size Reduce
Stuffed dolls have a takes up larger space than its actual volume. As shrink wrap is a packaging method that surrounds plastic films around the products and applies heats to shrink the film to the product sizes. Heat shrink can reduce more unnecessary space and keeps it sealed. Moreover, the total product weight with shrink wrap is lighter than that with cardboard box.

However price doesn't necessary means worse effect. Instead, shrink wrap works perfectly to protect products inside.

2.Protection

1). Protect Products from Impact
There are lots of space remained when packaging products in cardboard boxes, so bubble bags are stuffed around each products to prevent impact while transporting. This will to some extent, put on weight of the product load. However, shrink wrap can gather bundled items together as one and it's impact-proof.

2). Protect Products from Scratches
Glass food containers, electric appliance and more are easily scratched, if don't have any outer packaging, it's very easy that it gets scratched. A shrink wrap can prevent this.

3). Protect product from Dust
Goods are not always sell once after their arrival. Instead, it is possible that it is placed on the showing stand for months. Shrink wrap works perfectly to keep dust out and when tear off the shrink wrap, the goods will be brand new.

3.Preservation

Some perishable items might go bad while shipping if not well packaged. The reason why foods get perish very short is that there are too much or too little oxygen, cross contamination, too much or too little moisture, and bacteria. Shrink wrap is perfectly sealed so it's a perfect solution to prevent cross contamination and bacteria to contact the foods and contains adequate oxygen, moisture and temperature for the food. Thus, shelf life of these perishable foods can be extended.

4.See-Through Pack

As shrink wrap film is commonly clear, we can see the items through the wrapping film. It's perfectly for fruit gift basket because we can see greeting cards inside. Moreover, the plastic give extra layer of shine to the products and keeps it pretty.

Conclusion

With the right kind of plastic wrap and heating source, you can waterproof, tamerproof and weatherproof anything you want, no matter big or small because there's no restriction on size to shrink wrap. Moreover, shrink wrap is recyclable and do no pollution to the environment. Choose the food container packs you are interested in and contact us to discuss the detail packaging and price.

Another widely used packaging solution is cardboard boxes. Read on: Benefits of Packaging Plastic Food Containers with Cardboard Boxes to see a great alternative of shrink wrap.

Applications of Shrink Wrap in Packaging Industry

What is Shrink Wrap
Heat shrink wrapping is a packaging method that food container manufacturer use to wrap the products in clear or color plastic films And after that, apply heat to shrink the plastic to take the products shape. Shrink films are mainly made from low-density polyethylene film to protect products and holds them strongly together as a sales unit. Some exporters like Easylock also offers shrink wrap as a packaging option.

Shrink Wrap Plastic Food Storage Containers Set

Different Uses of Shrink Wrap
1. Promotion Items in Supermarket
Shrink wrap are commonly used to pack bottled water, coca cola, plastic food containers, trash bags, soap, DVD, and any other supermarket items to gather together bundle products.

Shrink Wrap Supermarket Promotion Items

2. Gift Wrapping
Gift shrink wrapping for toys and fruits with a greeting card inside are also a popular option.Use silk ribbon and tie a bowknot to make it looks better.

Shrink Wrap Gift Set

3. Books and Magazine
It's very important to protect books, magazine or other printing written words from moisture while transport or displaying in book store. Shrink wrap is a perfect option to keep water out.

Shrink Wrap Printing Written Words

4. Large Stuffs and Buildings
Another application of shrink wrap is for large stuffs like boats, export goods and even buildings to prevent damage from explosions and extreme weather events.

Shrink Wrap Large Stuffs and Buildings

Why shrink wrap is so widely applied in different industry for wrapping different stuffs? We will let you know in the upcoming post: Advantage of Packaging Plastic Food Containers with Shrink Wrap.

Plastic Food Containers Sourcing Managers Guide to Avoid Purchasing Defective Products

Are you freaking out choosing the best supplier from hundreds and thousands of factories/companies from different channels? Let's say Trade Shows, Alibaba.com, etc.

Sourcing Manager to Avoid Defective Plastic Products

Quality is one of the most important factors that a sourcing manager cares about when you are looking forward to cooperate with a food container manufacturer for your business before you consider production capacity, price, delivery time and other factors. Knowing the common sense of plastic injection products can help you a lot.

First thing first, you need to know the common injection molding defection of plastic food containers. Here are top 10 plastic product defections that you should be aware of:
10 Plastic Injection Molding Defects #Part 1
10 Plastic Injection Molding Defects #Part 2

Some injection molding defects of plastic food containers only affect the appearance of the products, however, some would even do harm to the quality of the plastic food containers. Injection molding machines, mold, material, and operator are the mainly cause of plastic food containers defects. It seems like plastic injection molding defects occur on many aspects and it's inevitable? Of course not.

Avoid purchasing defective products:
1. Check whether the plastic raw material are of high quality or not?
2. Check whether the molds and molding machines are well maintained?
3. Check whether the company has a strict quality control process?

Food Container Manufacturer

A professional plastic food storage containers manufacturer with mature sourcing team, engineer team and QC team can minimize plastic injection defects.

Take Easylock for example, all raw material we use are made of BPA-free PP plastic, which are food-grade and certified by FDA, LFGB and EU. When it comes to the production process, regular mold and molding machine maintenance are critical. The hard works of these two departments can reduce the possibility of injection molding machine. But it's not the end. We have a QC team follows the quality standard of ISO 9001:2008 strictly to stop defective products from stepping into the market.

Conclusion
While considering cooperating with a new plastic food container supplier, quality is way more important than other factors. Wish you find a reassuring supplier. If you have any interest in cooperate with us, you are highly welcomed to contact us: easylock@rokist.com. OEM service and brand agents are available now. Wish you everything goes very well.

How to Deal With Christmas Leftovers

To celebrate the annual Christmas, we would prepare a Christmas dinner and have time with our families and friends. However, sometimes we have lots of leftovers after the dinner.

How to deal with Christmas leftovers? There are two options:
1.Use a To-Go Container.
2.Freeze Leftovers in Refrigerator.

1.Use a To-Go Container.
You can pack some pieces of cakes, sandwich or a pasta in a plastic food storage container. There are many options, plastic, glass, paper, tin, and aluminum. Plastic is my first option because it is hard enough and light enough. Moreover, if your leftovers are juicy, you'd better use a plastic food containers with locking lid. So that the juice or soup won't leak out on its way.

2.Freeze Leftovers in Refrigerator.
For other dishes, it is a pity to discard them. Normally, we just cover the plastic wrap on the plate and put the whole plate into the refrigerator. It will keep the dishes fresh, but the freezer will soon be stuff up and your fridge just looks messy.

Stackable food storage containers are a good choice to keep your fridge tidied. You can separate the leftovers into different food containers according to the sizes you need. Then put on the locking lid and stack them up in refrigerator.

You can seize them out from the freezer and reheat them in microwave after cooling them to room temperature. Both the plastic and glass food containers are microwave safe.

To see the food containers that are safe in microwave, please check this: Which food container are safe in microwave.

After that, you need to wash all these food containers. You might think it would be a nightmare to hand wash these plastic food containers. A good news for you, all Easylock food containers are safe in top-rack dishwasher. You just need to put them in dishwasher and take a rest.

Easylock food containers are now available all over the world, contact us: easylock@rokist.com to see where to buy. If you are interested in becoming our distributor or OEM your own product, contact food container manufacturer for more info. Wish you a merry Christmas and happy new year.

4 Tips to Prepare A Stress-Free Christmas Dinner

Christmas is an expecting and relaxing feast to gather with families and friends and have dinner together. But...not if you are the one who is going to prepare this Christmas dinner for 12. It's a bit stressful, isn't it?

Today, I gonna show you several tips to prepare a stress-free dinner which save your time and not waste foods at all.

Tip 1: Prepare a lovely movie and some snacks
While you are busying your dinner, you don't want your guest feel boring and hungry. So why not get ready some snacks and the trending movie so that they can kill time and feel at home.

Plastic lunch containers with dividers is a perfect option to store cookies, blueberry, Oreo, potato chips and M&M's chocolate.

Tip 2: Use food containers to keep your countertop tidied
To keep you kitchen looks neatly and everything under control, you can wash your beans, asparagus, mushroom, onion, etc and put them in food containers for later use. Find the right sizes and shapes that you need.

Easylock, the food container manufacturer, have a complete series of different sizes of plastic food containers.

Tip 3: Cook what need more time before hand and reheat later
Turkey, steak and other meat need more time to be cook and stewed. You will feel nervous if there are 6 more dishes waiting for cooking and dinner time is approaching. To safe time, you can cook them before hand and put them in glass baking dishes for later reheating.

The 13 X 9inch glass baking dishes with lids has a large capacity of 2.6L to deal with your Christmas leftovers.

Tip 4: Prepare After-Dinner Fruit Salad As Well
After dinner, it's time you get a rest and enjoy the feast. So, make fruit salad before hand. Place salad dressing and to stir, you just need to put on the locking plastic lid and just shake.

I think with these 4 tips, you will feel less stress and these will save your time while preparing the Christmas dinner and have more time to enjoy Christmas with your family.

How to Tell If Plastic Food Containers Are BPA Free

What is BPA?
BPA, the short term of Bisphenol A, is a chemical used to produce polycarbonate products. In the 1960s, many of the plastic cans and containers are made from BPA.

Will BPA Hurt Our Health? 
U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that BPA will leach into the foods and beverages as it is used, which will do harm to our health. How can we tell which plastic food containers are BPA-free and which are BPA related?

How to Tell If Plastic Food Containers Are BPA-free? 
The key is to put the plastic food containers upside down. Why? There's always a recycling number on the bottom of food storage container. You can identify the type of the plastic food containers according to the number in that small triangle.

 Which Plastic Food Containers to Avoid? 
- Most BPA food containers are labeled No.7. (It's not for sure. You can call the manufacturer to verify it.)
- The one that is translucent and hard.

 Which Plastic Food Containers Are SAFE? 
- Type No. 1 -- PETE
- Type No. 2 -- HDPE
- Type No. 5 -- PP

Note: There are different BPA-free storage food containers brands in the world. One of them is Easylock microwave-safe plastic food containers. All Easylock BPA-free plastic food keepers are made of type 5 PP plastic. It's BPA-free and is not harmful to our health.

Plastic Types

You know how to distinguish between BPA plastic food containers and BPA-free plastic food containers. It's time for cleaning now: Find out all the food storage containers in your kitchen, your dining room and freezer that are made from BPA.