There has been a lot of press lately on the environmental problems that plastic bags are causing. A recent study showed that plastic buried in land has been slowly migrating out to the ocean and collecting in a central area. The impact on marine life is significant. The State of...
There are multiple reasons why you should consider using a third-party crater to package your equipment for shipping. Several common reasons include: The equipment is large and sensitive and requires precision for crating, beyond your standard day-to-day processes of packaging. The equipment needs to be vacuum sealed and/or protected with corrosion...
Packaging, while extremely valuable for safely transporting or storing products, usually doesn’t add much functionality to the product. It simply gets discarded when the product reaches its destination. For larger and more expensive industrial products, packaging containers can be fairly expensive so why not reuse it? Reusable containers will save money...
Back in 2009, Dave Carroll, lead musician in a Canadian band called “Sons of Maxwell” had a bad experience on a United Airline flight connection inChicago. His expensive guitar was broken as it was being loaded onto the airplane. Dave and his band watched in horror from the airplane as...
ProAct provides 100’s of mentally disabled people opportunities for meaningful employment, social activities, education and training. These special adults can work in the facility doing light assembly work, or they can go out in the community and do various jobs such as cleaning, laundry, stocking shelves and busing tables. ProAct...
A product that is shipped internationally or stored for an extended period can be exposed to a number of elements that can cause corrosion. Most corrosion is “rust” and is formed when moisture comes in prolonged contact with a metal surface. There are other types of corrosion that are not...
What can you do if you need to protect a very large object during extended storage or during shipment across the ocean? How big is large? How about 30 ft yacht, or a tractor, or even something as large as a house? Just because a structure is extremely large doesn’t...
There are numerous issues to review when designing export crating and packaging for your product. The Height and width of your crate may the biggest determinant of shipping cost and time. For air shipments, the aircraft door sizes will determine which type of aircraft is used for your shipment. The...
Here are some definitions of terms that we commonly use in the industrial packaging area: Flute: The undulation or corrugation pressed into medium paper as used in the construction of corrugated fiberboard. Flute sizes are designated from largest to smallest as A, C, B & E flute. Flutes are classified by...
More foam isn’t always the answer to protecting your product during shipping and handling. We commonly hear the question or suggestion…”let’s use more foam”. The best approach is based upon a review of the product fragility, the amount of foam and the density of the foam. A good example of...