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Let’s start with the materials. According to Sansoni, restrictions on factories in China made it difficult for American companies to source quaternary ammonium compounds, which are the antimicrobial disinfectant chemicals found in cleaning wipes and sprays, though the shortage has abated somewhat. Sellers of packaging components for all cleaning products—like wipe canisters, hand sanitizer pumps, and spray bottles—are also experiencing strains because manufacturers abruptly increased their orders all at once. Finally, some companies are having trouble getting their hands on enough fabric because the same materials are being used to make personal protective equipment—maybe the only item in even higher demand than wipes these days.

The process for making wipes differs from company to company, but it generally involves cutting up massive rolls of fabric into usable squares, placing them in a container, and then running the containers through a production line that deposits cleaning solution. Companies are now developing a number of different strategies to streamline this process and increase capacity, even with reduced access to materials. The private-label wet-wipes manufacturer Athea Laboratories has been rethinking the way it does packaging, placing its product in a wider variety of canister sizes based on what’s in stock from the packaging supplier in order to yield higher volumes. (Athea produces wipes for retail customers as well as gyms, department stores, and grocery stores.) The company has also stopped using coloring to identify its canisters in some cases. “Some customers will get a colored cap and have their brand be reflected by a certain look of the canister,” said John Patton, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Athea Laboratories. “Now they’re just happy with white, because that’s what we can get.” The manufacturer Rockline Industries has reportedly been placing its wipes in soft packs to get around the canister shortage.

In some cases, manufacturers can’t get the fabric they need because it’s being used for PPE. https://t.co/LAPbhWyGS4

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The difference between a language and a dialect is mostly meaningless and entirely political. https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley/2019/08/john-mcwhorter-on-language-versus-dialect via @slate

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