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
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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