Ultrasonic Tube Sealing: End Leaks & Cut Production Costs

The Hidden Cost of Seal Failures Is Eating Your Margins Before you spend a single dollar on new tube packaging equipment, it pays to understand exactly where money is leaking out of your current line — and often, the answer is quite literally the seal. A cosmetic contract manufacturer running a vitamin-C serum line discovered that 1.8% of tubes were failing end-of-line leak tests. At a run rate of 10,000 tubes per shift, that translated to 1,800 rejected tubes every eight hours — materials, fill product, labor, and packaging all converted directly into scrap. Once the team mapped out the full cost per rejected tube (fill material, tube cost, labor […]