4 Helpful Tips For Selecting a Dispenser For Your Product
Dispensers play an essential role for many types of products. Consider the products you use, whether personal care, cleaning, food, and beverage. We use dispensers on a very regular basis. Depending on the product you’re applying or consuming, dispensers have been developed and manufactured specifically to transport that product within its container with the intent to be used and applied precisely. At the end of the day, consumers “want it all,” and it’s our responsibility to ensure our dispensers are designed and manufactured with the end consumer’s experience in mind.
June 7, 2022
How to Best Decide on a Dispensing System
Brands want the very best for their consumers. How can you provide consumers with a high-performing dispenser while ensuring reliable functionality, appropriate portion control, and an aesthetic appeal explicitly customized to your brand? As consumers, we trust that our preferred brands are thoughtfully making these decisions with us in mind to ensure that we’re using them the way the product is intended to be used.
How Does HB International’s Team Guide Customers in the Development and Manufacturing of Their Dispensers?
There is a lot of thought that goes into dispensers for our customers. During the development phase, we require information such as where will the dispenser be located? How will it be used? What is the particular portion size? What type of container will the consumer be dispensing out of? What kind of product will the consumer be dispensing?
Understanding this information and sharing it with our suppliers offers customization and the opportunity for optimum performance because they’re designed, developed, and produced with the end consumer in mind.
1. High Traffic Volume vs. Individual Use: Where will your dispenser be used?
Are your dispensers expected to be used by high volumes of people? Or are they intended for individual use? Are the dispensers used for food and beverage purposes? Or is it a personal care product that may be designed to be used once daily by a single person? Perhaps it’s a cleaning product used to sanitize a small business office? When creating and designing dispensers, these questions must be considered because various dispensers are designed and manufactured to withstand high-volume traffic, moderate volume, and occasional individual use.
2. Too much or too little? Portion Control
All dispensers are designed and manufactured with a particular dispensing portion in mind. Knowing a product’s formula and the expected portion size will help provide portion control, ensuring the end-user does not get too much or too little of a dosage. Dispensers can be adjusted during production to ensure the exact dosage amount, particular to your product, is matched to provide the consumer with the most appropriate amount of product.
If a pump or dispenser overdoses or leaks, this can cost a brand to lose money because the consumer is receiving more products than are needed. Along with absolute portion control, portion size must be compatible with your product’s viscosity and substance. If a cleaning product is highly concentrated, you don’t want your consumer to receive too much of the product to ensure the user’s safety.
3. Pairing the best dispenser with your product: What’s inside?
Different dispensers are designed and produced with a particular liquid viscosity in mind. The dispenser for your product must be manufactured to handle your product. Foaming or liquid soap? Body or hand lotion? Hand sanitizer or surface cleaning product? Fragrance mister or body spray? Car or tire cleaner? Haircare? Condiments? Beverage syrup? Is it oil-based? These products have distinctive viscosities that must be considered before a dispenser is produced to ensure your dispenser functions properly for its intended use.
Let’s be honest, do consumers like it when their product is clogged in the dispenser or continuously drips?
4. A Compatible Pair: What’s the best container for your dispenser?
A wide-mouth jar? Gallon size container? Small personal care bottle? A flexible pouch? Depending on the type and amount of product expected to be dispensed will determine how your dispenser should fit. The container’s neck size and the most appropriate dip tube length should assist you and your supplier in determining this perfect fit.
How Does HBI Assist Our Customers in Selecting The Best Dispenser for their Product?
HBI’s team partners with our customers and suppliers to provide the highest quality products to our customers through design recommendations, product samples, and transparent communication. We work hard to provide our customers with confidence that our team of experts offers 100% project support. Our Project Managers, Quality Team, and suppliers work relentlessly to ensure your dispenser will function at optimum performance for your consumer, bringing continued value to your brand.
