How was the preceding 1,5 year for Desch Plantpak ? In an interview , Wouter Zieck , Sales Director , severalize about the exciting period , full of challenges . Indeed , the biggest one was the availability of raw material . On top of that , need has reached all - clip highs , there is no breed , and lead times are longer . Upscaling is a challenge because lead clip on machine is longer too . This is what the world-wide manufacture is dealing with , at the moment . In this 6 minute video below , Zieck lucubrate on that and founder a peep into the Desch manufacturing plant .
No stockZieck excuse that the demand justly after COVID was gloomy than before . " Then , all of a sudden , everybody go to buy giving quantities of their product , which led to actually an overdemand , more than we could dish out with . ordinarily , we work from stock and fulfill our orders directly from that . Yet , the requirement had apace outpace the supplying , and we could n’t meet up our stock in time . So , we are more and more producing immediately for all our cut-rate sale , which is really a challenge , because we have a limited number of car , and we have a huge assortment of tools . "
Limited availableness of raw materialsDemand is at an all - time high , but the availability of ( raw ) materials is circumscribed . " The creation has change a lot in the past twelvemonth and a half - two years . textile is the basic challenge that we have right now . 95 % of our production are free-base on recycled material , which are catch more and more difficult to obtain . One of the intellect for that is that an increasing number of industry has started using recycled materials instead of young , meridian material . Thing is , there was n’t much supplying of that , especially in 2020 . So , they had to seem elsewhere , for different types of Cartesian product . They found recycled product as a possible resolution . Now , they got used to that , so we do n’t expect to go back to grease one’s palms all the good recycle stuff . "
Longer lead timesSo , are they still able to pitch everything on time ? " No , we are not , unfortunately . What we see happening in the market is that those are always prescribe at the latest moment . Dutch cultivator used to consecrate and get the delivery the day after . Now , they need to put half a year in advance to get the product . Yet , there ’s still a question : are we really able to do this ? "
" And it ’s not just Desch . It ’s the whole diligence , all our competitors as well . They are being faced with the same challenges correctly now . And it ’s not just the raw stuff , it ’s also the machines . If you need to descale up to respond to the increased measure of the market , you buy a fresh machine , that machine has a lead time . The lead time can be anywhere from half a twelvemonth , to a year depending on what you order . And we see that the lead times are being extend based on : the difficulty in sourcing the alloy and the electronics to construct them , and so on . "
Up - scalingThey attempt to scale up by sourcing new materials ( new as in recycled material ) everywhere and they attempt to buy additional machines , explains Zieck . " Regarding the raw machines , either they do n’t come , or they come later . They have such a knock - on effect on our product schedules , our production preparation , and thus on our supply . "
Is there a Ag lining in all of this?“Of course , there is a ash grey liner to it " , he says . " The demand is good , and we are in a unexampled situation right now when it comes to sourcing material . We have found new sources in the marketplace . "
" moreover , we used to do a lot of calamitous pot , which could not be acknowledge in the categorisation of recycling units . Now we use the Detectable material in the recover pots , which can be recognized as such . We can get the materials back to make raw products out of them .
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