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Printing and packaging. Cost: resin and board rises passed on to customers late.

Grip reads customer contracts, resin and board indices and plant stock, plant by plant, and names the margin lost to lag, in AED.

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USD 240 millionRaw material cost rises one global packaging maker passed on to customers in its 2026 year.
Proven at Amcor

Source: Amcor plc, Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 30 June 2026. Amcor's flexible packaging segment booked about USD 240 million of extra net sales in fiscal 2026 purely from passing higher raw material costs through to customers, on segment sales of USD 12,829 million; the company says price adjustments can lag cost moves.

3 workflows

Where we start.

9 of 50 changes other printing and packaging companies made. Open one to see the company.

01

Price and margin

Every contract put on an index, with the lag and its gaps priced.

ReadsResin price index by monthContract pricing terms per customerCustomer supply contractsIndex history used in each clause
Put every film contract on a published resin index with a quarterly reset, and count what unlinked contracts cost you.
Proven at Tredegar

Source: Tredegar Corporation, Form 10-K for fiscal year 2021 (filed 11 March 2022).

Read every index-linked price clause for what happens when the index falls but your costs rise.
Proven at Crown Holdings

Source: Crown Holdings, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025.

Measure how many months each contract's paper, board or resin clause trails your cost, and what the last rise cost.
Proven at Sealed Air

Source: Sealed Air Corporation, Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025.

02

Cash and working capital

Plant stock counted monthly, closures weighed, plastic tax tracked pack by pack.

ReadsPlant profit and loss by siteCapacity and utilisation by lineStock ledger by plant and itemPhysical count sheets
Close a plant only after weighing its cash cost against the yearly saving.
Proven at Amcor

Source: Amcor plc, Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, MD&A and Note 6 Restructuring.

Count stock against the books at every plant each month, and fix gaps early.
Proven at Amcor

Source: Amcor plc, Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, Note 6 Restructuring.

Record the weight and recycled content of every plastic item, so taxed packs are spotted early.
Backed by research

Source: HMRC, Plastic Packaging Tax: steps to take (guidance, last updated 12 February 2026).

03

Sales and demand

European packaging rules and certification turned into new orders.

ReadsCustomer list with destination marketsBox specifications and dimensionsCertification certificates and licence codes by plantBoard and paper purchase records with certificate claims
Find customers shipping into Europe and offer them right-sized packaging before the 50% empty-space limit applies.
Backed by research

Source: European Parliament and Council of the European Union, Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste (Official Journal L, 22 January 2025).

Certify every board and paper plant for certified forest sourcing, so brand owners can print the mark on their packs.
Proven at Smurfit Westrock

Source: Smurfit Westrock plc, Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 31 December 2025.

Sell governments tax stamps with the software that tracks each one, on a multi-year contract.
Proven at De La Rue

Source: De La Rue plc, Annual Report 2024.

The money at stake.

Public figures, each with its company and year. An estimate is marked.

USD 1.3 billion

A US packaging maker's customer invoices sold or securitised for cash at end 2025.

Proven at Crown Holdings

Source: Crown Holdings, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025. Crown funded working capital partly with USD 1.3 billion of receivables securitisation and factoring at end 2025, and says average use during the year may be higher than the year-end figure.

USD 629 million

A US packaging maker's cash from selling customer invoices early in 2025.

Proven at Sealed Air

Source: Sealed Air Corporation, Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025. Sealed Air received USD 629 million in 2025 by selling receivables through customers' supply chain finance arrangements and its factoring and securitisation programmes; without them about USD 151 million more would have sat in receivables at year end.

Grip at work

What your Grip looks like.

A sample company, in AED. Yours is built from your own files.

What waits on each person today, one click from where to act. Sample figures.

What we stand on
01Money first

Every project shows the revenue, cost or cash it is worth, in your currency, from your own files, before you agree to it.

02Every project has proof

Every project runs on a client's Grip, was designed on our own Grip, or comes from a play a named company published, with the document we read it in.

03Your systems as they are

We read the systems you already use. Nothing to move, replace or clean up first.

04Value and money found in 2 weeks

A two-week pilot on one department, your first project live and its money delivered by Day 30, then one fixed monthly fee.

Questions

What printing and packaging companies ask first.

Three answers, each with one public figure, its company and its document.

Question 1How can AI reduce price clauses that lag costs in printing and packaging?

AI reads customer contracts, resin and board indices and plant stock, plant by plant, and names the margin lost to lag, in AED. For scale: USD 240 million, raw material cost rises one global packaging maker passed on to customers in its 2026 year (Amcor).

USD 240 millionRaw material cost rises one global packaging maker passed on to customers in its 2026 year.
Proven at Amcor

Source: Amcor plc, Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 30 June 2026. Amcor's flexible packaging segment booked about USD 240 million of extra net sales in fiscal 2026 purely from passing higher raw material costs through to customers, on segment sales of USD 12,829 million; the company says price adjustments can lag cost moves.

Question 2What does an AI transformation programme in printing and packaging start with?

It starts with the revenue, cost and cash you are losing today, read from the systems you already use. One workflow goes first, usually price and margin, read from resin price index by month and contract pricing terms per customer. For scale: USD 1.3 billion, A US packaging maker's customer invoices sold or securitised for cash at end 2025 (Crown Holdings).

USD 1.3 billionA US packaging maker's customer invoices sold or securitised for cash at end 2025.
Proven at Crown Holdings

Source: Crown Holdings, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025. Crown funded working capital partly with USD 1.3 billion of receivables securitisation and factoring at end 2025, and says average use during the year may be higher than the year-end figure.

Question 3How fast do printing and packaging companies see results from AI?

A two-week pilot on one department finds the value and money in your own data before you commit. Your first project goes live, and its money is delivered, by Day 30. For scale: USD 629 million, A US packaging maker's cash from selling customer invoices early in 2025 (Sealed Air).

USD 629 millionA US packaging maker's cash from selling customer invoices early in 2025.
Proven at Sealed Air

Source: Sealed Air Corporation, Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025. Sealed Air received USD 629 million in 2025 by selling receivables through customers' supply chain finance arrangements and its factoring and securitisation programmes; without them about USD 151 million more would have sat in receivables at year end.

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Tell us what you want to fix. In a two-week pilot we find the value and money before you commit.

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