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Superior Packaging & International Dunnage working toward Vertical Integration

9/29/2022

 
At Superior Packaging Company and International Dunnage, we continue to expand and will soon be vertically integrated! What does that mean exactly? Well, for our partners and customers, this is great news! For those considering working with us, now is the best time! This full integration reduces much of the supply chain and inventory situations that have arisen the past couple years. We will also have better control over pricing and ultimately better customer service, which is always a top priority. ​
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In short, Vertical integration is an expansion strategy that involves growth through streamlining operations. This occurs when a company is able to control all stages of production and distribution of the finished product - in this case, dunnage air bags. Companies that choose to integrate vertically do so to strengthen their supply chains, reduce their production costs, capture upstream or downstream profits, or access new distribution channels.

Not only does vertical integration increase capacity, but it also guarantees efficiencies in the production process and cuts down on delays in delivery and transportation, improving supply chain deficits.
Vertical integration helps a company:
  • Better control costs across different parts of its production process
  • Creates tighter quality control and guarantees a better flow and control of information across the supply chain resulting in a better product
  • Increase production capacity
  • Reduces or eliminates the leverage that suppliers have over the company (backward integration)

These are all win-win for our customers and Superior Packaging! Join a winning partnership and request a quote today!
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Happy Labor Day!!!

9/5/2022

 
Happy Labor Day 2022! Today is the day America pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. It was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894. Labor Day weekend also symbolizes the end of summer for many Americans, and is celebrated with parties, street parades and athletic events.
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​Labor Day is celebrated in cities and towns across the United States with parades, picnics, barbecues, fireworks displays and other public gatherings. For many Americans, particularly children and young adults, it represents the end of the summer and the start of the back-to-school season.
So why do we celebrate Labor Day? It actually originated during one of American labor history's darker time periods and was created to celebrate workers and their achievements. The manufacturing industry, which Superior Packaging Company has close ties, was integral in the creation of this National Holiday. 

In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living. Despite restrictions in some states, children as young as 5 or 6 toiled in mills, factories and mines across the country, earning a fraction of their adult counterparts’ wages. People of all ages, particularly the very poor and recent immigrants, often faced extremely unsafe working conditions, with insufficient access to fresh air, sanitary facilities and breaks.

As manufacturing increasingly supplanted agriculture as the wellspring of American employment, labor unions, which had first appeared in the late 18th century, grew more prominent and vocal. They began organizing strikes and rallies to protest poor conditions and compel employers to renegotiate hours and pay. Many of these events turned violent during this period, including the infamous Haymarket Riot of 1886, in which several Chicago policemen and workers were killed. Others gave rise to longstanding traditions: On September 5, 1882, 10,000 workers took unpaid time off to march from City Hall to Union Square in New York City, holding the first Labor Day parade in U.S. history.

The idea of a “workingmen’s holiday,” celebrated on the first Monday in September, caught on in other industrial centers across the country, and many states passed legislation recognizing it. Congress would not legalize the holiday until 12 years later, when a watershed moment in American labor history brought workers’ rights squarely into the public’s view. On May 11, 1894, employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago went on strike to protest wage cuts and the firing of union representatives.

On June 26, the American Railroad Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, called for a boycott of all Pullman railway cars, crippling railroad traffic nationwide. To break the Pullman strike, the federal government dispatched troops to Chicago, unleashing a wave of riots that resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen workers.

In the wake of this massive unrest and in an attempt to repair ties with American workers, Congress passed an act making Labor Day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. On June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed it into law. More than a century later, the true founder of Labor Day has yet to be identified.


Many credit Peter J. McGuire, cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, while others have suggested that Matthew Maguire, a secretary of the Central Labor Union, first proposed the holiday.

​Credit: History Channel


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