A common problem with ecommerce and the shipping of goods is the packaging waste. AirWave air cushions offer the solution. Check out the benefits of using AirWave: Protection No packaging material is as flexible as an air cushion wrapper. It’s reliable, adapts to any shape and helps to prevent breakage. It can be used very …
All types of packaging for transit – either shipping boxes or cartons are often manufactured from cardboard or corrugated board. They’re designed so that goods reach their intended recipient without damage. As well as boxes, transit packaging also covers other key areas such as edge protection and pallet wrapping. This priority for packing and …
When it comes to packaging there is often an emphasis on the quality of boxing and the choice of void fill to protect the inner packaging. However, the importance of ensuring the outer packaging is not damaged is often overlooked. Edge protection ensures that no part of the packaging process is compromised and enables your …
Expandable protective sleeving is used as temporary protection for fragile products and surface coatings. It offers high resistance to acids and solvents and is also unaffected by oils and greases. Additionally, it has excellent memory so can be reused time and again. The sleeving is made in a continuous roll of extruded low-density polyethylene, moulded …
The correct way to carry out pallet stacking is a constant battle within a business: You receive a call from an irate customer, complaining that a pallet of fragile goods has been damaged in transit. Has the pallet has been dropped or tilted? No, the Xtegra® shock and tilt monitors haven’t been activated. Has it …
Products need protecting from low-impact damage during storage and transport, particularly pallets. Actions such as Careless forklifting, load movement and even over-tension as a result of strapping or stretch wrap film, are common causes of damage. Southgate has a catalogue of different edging content: Kraftek® Edge Boards Kraftek® edge boards are made of resilient Kraft-wrapped …
Corner protectors made from injection moulded polypropylene come in three styles – closed, expanding and open. Closed corner protectors look a bit like a shallow, square box cut diagonally across the top and are made to fit a range of sheet material thicknesses. Typically they protect the corners of fixed-depth products such as table tops …
Palletised loads don’t have it easy – they get dusty, damp, knocked against, stacked and joggled around yet are still expected to look good on arrival. Thankfully there are several products available that will reduce the likelihood of damage. Polythene pallet shrink covers are a good deterrent to dust and moisture and are manufactured to …
Many smaller businesses use void fill material to protect fragile goods in transit, but don’t have the space needed to install bulky equipment or store conventional material such as loose fill or bubble wrap. Pacplan have now filled the gap with the introduction of the Airwave PWN3 – a compact yet powerful desktop air pillow …
Silica gel desiccant is essentially a form of sand (silicon dioxide) which is able to absorb up to 40% of its mass in water. It is used in two forms; indicating and non-indicating. Indicating silica gel contains cobalt that causes the crystals to change colour when moisture is absorbed and as cobalt is toxic, care …
