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PCI Utilizes Unique Speed-to-Market Business Model to Quickly Bring a New Product to Life
Summary: PCI helped an international hygiene and infection prevention provider quickly bring new, high-quality products to market. The Challenge A Fortune 500 CPG (consumer packaged goods) company was facing a tight deadline for bringing their new product to market...
PCI Helps International Hygiene and Infection Prevention Provider Produce Halal-Certified Products
Summary: PCI quickly obtained Halal certification to help a Fortune 500 international hygiene and infection prevention provider maintain the production of a high-demand cleaning solution. The Challenge Producing products that...
7 Signs You Need A New Contract Manufacturer
Not all contract manufacturers are equal: They can differ in testing and quality control, capacity, dedication to quality, talent on hand (product management, chemists), and so on, in a lot of ways. If you work with a contract manufacturer, you also know the success...
PCI Helps Multinational Household Cleaning Brand Transition with Reverse Formula Engineering
Summary: PCI reverse-engineered a multinational household cleaning brand's formulas to keep their products in stock. The Challenge After an acquisition and management change, a multinational, all-natural household cleaning solutions provider was missing the crucial...
What the Makers of Environmentally Friendly Cleaners Need to Look for in a Manufacturing Partner
Strong demand for environmentally friendly cleaners is leading many companies to partner with contract manufacturers to expand their bandwidth. Manufacturers must proceed with caution when hiring a contract manufacturer. Look for a contract manufacturer with a long...
4 Important Ways Industrial Cleaning Products Differ From Household Cleaning Products
There are important differences between industrial cleaning products and household cleaning products—both in terms of the properties of these products, and in terms of how they have to be manufactured. To get a feel for the difference, imagine a scenario where,...
Quality Control in Liquids Manufacturing
Manufacturing liquids, especially those that are used in homes and around people and pets, requires a laser focus on quality control. Quality and consistency are mission critical for both the safety of consumers and the reputation of your brand. A reputable contract...
How Can You Be Sure That a Contract Manufacturer Adheres to Brand Quality Standards?
Whether your product is a commonplace household item or one-off “bespoke” special, what matters most is the overall reputation of your brand. If consumers know and trust your brand, they will consistently turn to it again and again, meaning a lifetime or revenue for...
Why EPA, Kosher and Halal Certifications Matter for Cleaning Products
Learn More About the Processes for Food-Grade Certifications Food-grade certifications may not seem important for an industrial cleaning product at first blush. However, the vast majority of cleaning products used to clean restaurant equipment need to be produced...
How to Choose a Liquid Contract Manufacturer for Cleaning Products
When you and your team are looking for a contact manufacturer for industrial or household cleaning products, you need immediate assurances that you’re working with another team of specialists. Contract manufacturing for any product is a niche business. Liquid...
What To Do When Your Liquid Contract Manufacturing Partner Can’t Maintain Production Schedules
And How to Find a Contract Manufacturing Partner That Can Support Overflow Capacity If everything were as scientific as creating your product formulations, your entire order workflow would be equally predictable. As any CPG product team can tell you, predicting...
What A Transparent Bid Process for a Contract Manufacturer Should Look Like
If you’re preparing to take a project out to bid for a cleaning product, finding the right vendor is a skill. The process usually entails very well-established protocols that most of us are familiar with: Your internal project team (product, purchasing, etc.)...
Packaging Challenges for Liquid Products
In order to guarantee your customers’ and end users’ safety, packaging your liquid chemical products correctly is vital. Liquid chemical manufacturing is an extremely technical arena, and one that not every contract manufacturing vendor is equally positioned to handle...
Finding a Liquid Contract Manufacturer for Hydrogen Peroxide-Based Products
Because it’s an oxidizing agent, hydrogen peroxide is extremely versatile as an ingredient in cleaning products. Consumers tend to be drawn to it as a labeled ingredient because it’s a powerful antiseptic that doesn’t have an offensive odor (like chlorine or...
Five Things to Look for in a Liquid Contract Manufacturer for Cleaning Products
When you’re in the bidding or RFP process for a new contract manufacturer for your liquid cleaning products, it can be overwhelming. Even the most experienced product and engineering teams are often unclear on how to evaluate a contract manufacturing vendor. All...
Why Documentation is Crucial for Liquid Contract Manufacturing of Cleaning Products
How does documentation validate a vendor’s ability to produce and control quality from formula all the way to finished good? When you hand off a formula and a product design to your liquid contract manufacturing vendor, there’s one word that should define that...
PCI Delivered Creative, Cost-Effective Rework Solution for Fortune 500 Institutional Cleaning Product Company
Summary: PCI’s Rework and Relabeling Strategy Saved a Fortune 500 Institutional Cleaning Product Company Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars The Challenge A Fortune 500 institutional cleaning product company discovered a significant issue with a large campaign of...
What’s the Difference Between Private Label and Contract Manufacturing?
When you’re looking for a new manufacturing vendor to formulate and package your new products, there are often points of confusion regarding the differences between private label and contract manufacturing. Both private label and contract manufacturers have the same...
What is Turnkey Contract Manufacturing?
When we first start working with clients, we often get a lot of questions about how turnkey contract manufacturing differs from other types of business models. Turnkey contract manufacturing is a full-service option for wholesale and retail products. A turnkey...
What is the Difference Between an OEM and a Contract Manufacturer?
Whether you are in charge of a new product line, or are simply trying to bring costs down for an existing brand, your company probably has considered outsourcing all or part of a product’s manufacturing process to a third-party vendor. The hunt for a reliable vendor...
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