With the Wal-Mart scorecard set to go into effect on February 1, the procrastinator's clock will soon stop ticking. Those who have waited will soon find that their hope of an extension has evaporated and they must move to 21st century packaging now. The problem for many of these vendors is that they are making their products in China and environmental packaging is not available there until now.

AVC Corporation, the leader in environmental packaging has set up their plant, AVC-China in Guangdong province, to manufacture and produce the same great environmental packaging available domestically to American companies.

"We saw this change to Environmental packaging coming and started our plant in China two years ago. Our China capabilities include printing, thermoforming, injection molding, assembly, R/F and heat sealing on site. We offer a total packaging solution for all our clients," said Moshe Begim, President of AVC Corporation. He went on to say that when a client with products made in China wants to package there, he offers them the complete 'global packaging concept.'

AVC's in-house design team begins with the design here in the USA and offers the client AVC's unique and patented packages such as the ERB (environmental rigid blister, the RRP (reusable retail package), EnviroTube, PP-RRP (polypropylene reusable retail package), and of course a wide array of conventional clamshells, blisters and clampacks. After approval, the design is sent to AVC-China to produce the tools, form the plastic and do the printing.

AVC-China also offers the assembly and packaging of the product, or clients can buy the packaging materials to assemble at their vendors operation. "The beauty of the system is that we can make a tool in the USA and begin packaging here until China is online. Then the transition is accomplished seamlessly with all the processes done in China. If the client has an emergency then we just have the product flown in and we can package it in the USA until the Chinese package can arrive. It has saved the reputation of many of our clients who had big box store fixed due dates," said Begim.

AVC has over 30 years packaging industry experience and spent considerable time setting up the China facility to U.S. standards. "We looked to ISO 9000 as the basis for our China operation and combine the lower labor rates with our modern processing and design. The Chinese operation that AVC acquired had been in business for over 20 years providing printing and plastic products for global clients. They were enthusiastic to have us come in and take over and bring their operations up to modern levels", said Art Stephens Vice President of Operations at AVC.

AVC continues to produce and develop new environmental packaging to meet the new demand and will continue to service its Global clientèle. www.avccorp.com is the website to discover all of AVC's packaging innovations at both AVC and AVC-China.