Plastic Clamshell Packaging Sourcing procurement articles

Notes for buyers preparing factory RFQs: cavity size, resin and destination. These articles are checklists. They are not mill appointments or a stock list.

Procurement note illustration for a clamshell RFQ

Procurement note

Clamshell Packaging Sourcing: Four Scenarios, Four Different Answers

There's no single right way to source custom plastic clamshell packaging. After nine documented mistakes and about $11,000 in scrap and remade tooling, here's how I sort buyers into four situations — each with different advice, including where the conventional wisdom falls apart.

· Jane Smith

Procurement note illustration for a clamshell RFQ

Procurement note

The $4,800 Clamshell Order That Taught Me to Ask Everything Twice

A Minneapolis ops buyer's documented mistakes sourcing custom plastic clamshell packaging and plastic bottle packaging — the tooling quote that doubled, the sample approved from a photo, and the small-order vendor who saved the account.

· Jane Smith