Plastic Food Containers Sourcing Managers Guide to Avoid Purchasing Defective Products

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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.