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.