Heavy snow brings thinking to glass bottle industry

On February 3rd, Shanghai Changzheng Fumin Jinshan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Shanghai Changfu”) received an urgent notice from the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration requesting it to make a large infusion reserve in order to deal with the snowstorm in parts of China. Ensure the supply of drugs in the Shanghai market.

This notification has caused pressure on Shanghai Changfu. Due to the large amount of basic infusion fluids in the Shanghai market, a large number of products were imported from foreign companies, and snow disasters hindered the transportation. As a result, the supply of large infusion fluids in the Shanghai market became tense.

Shanghai Changfu currently supplies approximately 1 million bottles/month of fluids for the Shanghai market, and according to the requirements of the Shanghai Municipal Reserve Commodity Management Office (hereinafter referred to as the “reserve office”), it must maintain 1 million bottles of infusion at the same time. , And 24 hours to keep the information uninterrupted.

However, after the snowstorm, Shanghai Changfu faced an embarrassing situation. At present, Shanghai Changfu's supply market is filled with glass bottles. Since glass bottles are highly energy-consuming products, they are not produced locally in Shanghai. Previously, they imported “Bottles” from a company in Nantong, and the Nantong Plant transported 150,000 bottles to Shanghai Changfu every day. Only the bottle, and the bottle's reserve is zero inventory.

Due to the snow disaster, local restrictions on electricity and traffic were also affected, causing the bottle's transportation to be interrupted. “A few days when the snow is big, the bottle has not been shipped in.” Liang Hong, deputy general manager of Shanghai Changfu, told the “First Financial Daily”.

In response to this situation, Shanghai Changfu initiated emergency response measures. “The snowstorm situation was the first time we encountered it, but fortunately because of previous SARS, hepatitis A and other special events, our company has always had an early warning system for emergencies,” said Wang Yunqing, general manager of Shanghai Changfu Marketing Center.

In the beginning of continuous snowfall in several major cities across the country, Shanghai Changfu is well prepared for possible disasters, increasing the original 1 million bottles/month infusion inventory by 50%. And make adjustments in production time. “Once the Spring Festival had been scheduled to suspend production for a week, the machine will be overhauled. We will now delay the maintenance period beyond the Spring Festival to ensure sufficient production time,” said Wang Yunqing.

Shanghai Changfu also communicated in advance with the Nantong Plant on bottle transportation issues. “It used to be the next order every month. Now we require them to ship in advance, send four more days of goods, and negotiate on the payment issue. This will ease the situation in the most difficult days. And we also consider The disaster weather may continue. Therefore, if road transportation is interrupted for more than 4 days, we will use the sea way.” Huang Changzhou, vice president of Shanghai Changfu, told reporters.

Despite this, Shanghai Changfu has encountered unexpected conditions. At present, the large infusion packaging cartons are produced by two companies located in Chongming and Jinshan. In the days of heavy snowfall in Shanghai, the roof of the Chongming company was collapsed, causing problems for the enterprises to stop producing cartons. At that time, Shanghai Changfu sent procurement personnel to Chongming and urgently found another carton factory that was in the process of stopping production. Only by using its production equipment did it solve the production problem.

“This situation is beyond our expectation, and it is fortunate to find such a temporary company, and this has also prompted us to speed up the search for a carton production standby company. In fact, we have already found a number of companies, but due to the It is very strict and it is still under evaluation." Huang Dazhou said.

Huang Dazhou told reporters that as Shanghai Changfu will conduct practical drills or paper presentations on production and safety early warning programs every year, the snowstorm is still relatively complete. During the snowstorm and the Spring Festival period, Shanghai Changfu's daily supply of basic fluids for the market is 20,000 to 30,000 bottles, which is the same as usual.

However, the snowstorm emergency still caused Shanghai Changfu to see its own shortcomings. Wang Yunqing told reporters that there are three kinds of bottled specifications for basic infusions on the market today: glass bottles, plastic bottles and soft bags, and the infusion of glass bottles is gradually being replaced by the latter two.

If all the packaging is changed to plastic bottles, the purchase of bottles can be resolved in Shanghai, and even in the event of a snowstorm, these problems will not be encountered. However, Shanghai Changfu is currently facing the same dilemma. Although Shanghai Changfu also has a production line for the production of two types of infusions, the infusion of plastic bottles fell due to the bid for Shanghai pharmaceuticals in 2006, resulting in the infusion of glass bottles into the medical insurance.

In the second half of last year, the Reserve Office approved the application of Shanghai Changfu to change the packaging of reserve commodities into plastic bottles. However, the specifications must formally enter the medical insurance and still lack a health insurance code. The Medical Insurance Agency approved the medical insurance code must go through the hearing process, and the most recent one needs to wait until March of this year. This also makes it possible for Shanghai Changfu's already-completed plastic packaging infusions to be stored in warehouses during periods of severe snow storms. Changing the packaging is the key to maintaining Changchun’s normal production in natural disaster weather.

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