Vapouround magazine ISSUE 11 | Page 216

GOT THE BOTTLE TO PUSH YOUR VAPING PRODUCTION TO NEW HEIGHTS? Malcolm Little is Managing Director of e-liquid bottle filling, capping and labelling specialists Advanced Dynamics Ltd W ow, it’s a year since the last Vaper Expo and haven’t we been having a blast? Vaping businesses are springing up everywhere and a market that felt positively embryonic last year is really coming of age. Partnerships between manufacturers and other industry suppliers are springing up all over the place – it’s like vaping has its own Tinder app! So what have you done to grasp the nettle, or grab the bull by the horns? Surely you’ve done something to boost your business to new heights so you can compete with all the other providers? If you haven’t, quite honestly I have no idea how you’re still in business. Stuck with manual filling and labelling? You don’t stand a chance. OK clever clogs, what should we be doing? Everyone knows now that the key is to produce juice quickly, it will make the difference between successfully selling it or having the best kept secret. Vastly increased demand and volumes require quicker turnaround times – mixing e-liquid solutions up in your bath at home is a relic of the dark ages. As a famous politician (might have) once said: automate, automate, automate. Think of the slog and cost involved in hand labelling just a couple of thousand bottles. To meet high expectations and increased volumes, labels need to be applied efficiently, quickly and 216 ISSUE 11 VAPOUROUND MAGAZINE accurately every time. Multiply that equation across filling, capping and any other add-ons and you’ve a nightmare on your hands. Don’t worry – be happy, there are affordable automated systems available to improve your efficiency and save your snowflake workers excessive manual effort. Yeah, yeah, we know that. So what EXACTLY should we be doing? Don’t get shirty now. The industry is frankly unrecognisable and evolving probably faster than any other sector day by day. What that means is that suppliers are investing massively in creating packaging solutions that not only meet demand from you vaping guys, but are actually pushing the bo