Welcome to our Newest Industry

CCTI Member!

Greif is a leading supplier of industrial packaging products and services. With strategic locations throughout more than 37 countries, Greif remains steadfast in its commitment to being the highest performing customer service entity for its global and regional customers around the world.

Greif offers large, intermediate, and specialty fibre, plastic or steel drums, and IBCs that offer a truly customized solution with the appropriate components for the paint, coating, or ink market.

Welcome to our latest

CCTI Associate Member!

Rayfield Metal Stamping offers easy open ends (standard & customized) & Can components.

3600 N Summit St Toledo, OH43611. (419) 726-4400

Welcome Back Indevco! Thanks for your membership renewal!

INDEVCO Flexible Packaging is a multi-layer plastic film extrusion technology, we produce custom high-performance Industrial films & bags tailored to your product needs.

Tellet Al Assafir, Ajaltoun, Indevco Bldg.1, 4^th Floor

P.O. Box 11-2354 Beirut - Lebanon

Tel: +961-9-209 000 Ext. 3129

CCTI Opposes NLRB Standard Change

A change recently proposed by the National Labor Relations Board would have harmful effects on manufacturers if enacted. CCTI has been working closely with the NAM Council for Manufacturing Associations to oppose this change.

What’s happening: In September, the federal agency published formal notice of intent to revise its joint employer standard, which went into effect in 2020.

• Under the 2020 rule, an entity can be considered a joint employer of another employer’s workers only if it and the other employer share or jointly determine the essential terms of employment, such as wages, hiring and discipline.

• The revision would consider businesses to be employers not just of their employees, but of temporary workers and independent contractors as well.

Why it’s important: It would exacerbate manufacturers’ ability to respond to changing market demands, including efforts to address acute workforce needs. If the change is enacted, manufacturers that use staffing firms to fill worker shortages—still a significant challenge in the industry—would be made responsible for workers “they did not hire and are working with temporarily, Furthermore, it would “create new tensions and complications” in the organized labor landscape.

A safety hazard: If enacted, the new rule would challenge a company’s ability to release workers who violate workplace rules. It would also impede companies’ ability “to provide basic safety training to workers or take action to address health and safety threats as they arise, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The final word: The proposed rule “will harm manufacturers at a time when they need the flexibility and contingency offered through temporary and contract workers. These personnel help manage supply chain impacts, demand for manufactured products and other inflationary challenges.

Cybersecurity Concerns Among Top Barriers for Remote Access Adoption

While factory management at the click of a button might sound enticing, packaged goods companies say IT security concerns are the top barrier for adopting remote access technology.

Industrial remote access allows support teams to remotely connect to and manage computer-based equipment, according to remote access technology provider Ewon.

Malware and access to sensitive company information came up as specific concerns for the technology in a survey conducted for PMMI Business Intelligence’s 2022 report “Challenges and Opportunities for Packaging and Processing Operations.”

Surveyed OEMs also saw customer buy-in and acceptance of remote access by CPGs as a barrier to wider rollout, which the report says could be explained by companies’ security concerns.

Cybersecurity is not the only reason for resistance from companies. Other points noted in the survey included concern that legacy equipment would not support the technology, worries over a lack of knowledge or understanding of the technology, as well as cost and limited time.

“Some of our equipment will not support,” one CPG said. “Management time is limited in a growing organization.” Conversely, a number of participants stated they were already using the technology within their operations. “We stress the importance of remote access,” one supplier said.

While companies have noted several barriers holding back remote access adoption, OEMs might be able to drum up acceptance through support. Companies want reassurances about the security of systems, provided by trusted advisers through a secure connection rather than public IPs to agreed standards.