Green Supreme bags side seams top two inches torn (unsealed)

Yesterday, I moved a pallet ton of Green Supreme Northeast Blend bags of wood pellets from
outdoors to inside my porch. I found that about 80% of the bags, the side seams at the top
two inches where torn. As if the seam was never sealed when the bag was made from the
roll of flat plastic sheeting. I think the machine was out of adjustment at the plant, not sealing the
top two inches of the side seams of the bags. The seal is supposed to be sealed by heating the
plastic. I purchased these Green Supreme pellets in Spring 2022.

The good feature of these pellets is that specifications on the bag state percentage ash 0.4% to 0.6%.
That is close to the range of a super premium pellet.

I have seen this problem before with North Country pellets.
Have you seen seams of the bags unsealed?

 

I don't remember any that weren't sealed all the way, or if I had some, they were just an odd bag, not as a trend. I have had some that were weakly sealed, so I had to handle them with care though.

Oddest thing I have come across were the last delivery from HD last spring. I expected GS Northeast, but they were GS Midwest pure hardwoods. About 1/2 the bags of one pallet were extremely dusty inside. And, I had 2 bags that had a large area of clumping, as if the bags had gotten moisture introduced. Both of those bags were in the middle of the stack and there were no tears or holes. And, those bags don't have the breathing holes like blends and SW's do, so it was done during the processing/bagging, not from outside forces.