One of the first questions potential customers want to know when they call our company is: How much does your glue cost? 

When manufacturers consider switching glue vendors, cost is a top concern. Although this is a very difficult question to answer, I will try my best to explain some glue cost drivers. Simply put, you are shopping for a glue that will work properly without significantly driving up your costs. This sounds very straightforward but, believe it or not, there are many details we need to recommend the right glue. Each of these details may adjust the formula, and drive the glue cost (up or down).

"Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as few resources as needed and effective in terms of meeting customer requirements"(Wikipedia).

As you can imagine, running an Operations team is no easy feat. Without this department, L.D. Davis would not be able to manufacture or ship product. They keep our company running like a well-oiled machine!

To continue our "Meet The Team" series, we sat down with our Operations Manager, Barry Barto. Continue reading to get an inside look into the L.D. Davis plant.

Gelatin is an extremely important part of the manufacturing process at LD Davis. Since the 1970's, we have replaced the primary ingredient in our animal glues, extracted collagen from hides of bovine and porcine, with recycled pharmaceutical and nutritional gelatin in the form of soft gel netting.

You would be surprised how many equipment, and application issues could be resolved simply by adjusting the running temperature of your adhesive. A question that our lab gets very often from our customers and prospects is in regards to the best temperature to run our cake glues to ensure that their operation runs smoothly and their equipment stays clean.