ORIGINAL: chaz3815
The numbers are in the mold . By the way all plastic molds have them that way the bad cavity can be identified at the plant . If you look on anything plastic you will find them. On much bigger parts you can find the date code .
Sundowner
Products like this - with no need for the hi-lo driver to pull the oldest palletfirst, will often find a mixed-bag of production numbers inside. Stuff like this only gets rotated when the product gets an occasional update/revamp. The bin that these sabots may get dumped into - prior to packaging, may hold several boxes/bushels from past productions without product rotations needed.
If you are insistent to learn more, call Del Ramsey at MMPsabots.comfor a complete explanation on manufacturing& packaging.