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Factory Plants and Offices Coming Out of COVID-19

Stats show improvements in quotation index levels but an increase of denial of access into CPG plants.

Plant and office closures.
Plant and office closures.

PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, held a panel earlier this Fall on the new OpX work product, the virtual Factory Acceptance Test (vFAT) where they released the following information.

Among PMMI membership 95% of members have both plants and offices open, none report their plants closed, and 4.9% of members report their offices are still closed, while they work virtually from home. These numbers prove that gradually the industry is returning to normal production, or rather the new normal.

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