Protection for Long Products
Protection for Long Products with Circular Profiles
The Challenge
We were challenged to find a sustainable, easy to use and lightweight packaging solution to provide damage resistance and load protection for the product.
A manufacturer of consumer and educational movie screens was seeking a sustainable packaging solution to replace wooden crates and single-use foam inserts. The products, can be up to 20 feet long, require unique support and packaging.
The Solution
Signode’s Engineered Solutions Design Center in Danville, Virginia, worked closely with the Signode Packaging Lab in Roselle, Illinois, Signode Sales, and the customer’s packaging distributor to design and test packaging options.
After testing Signode suggested replacing the foam packaging with Signode’s sustainable Multi-Wall™ Flat Pads, Reverse Slit-Score Honeycomb and U-Channel Pads. Flat Pads are a sustainable, customizable option that absorbs transit shocks and provides blocking, spacing, and void filling. Reverse Slit-Score Honeycomb is for the challenges faced protecting the screens circular profiles. And Signode’s Multi-Wall U-Channel Pads provided additional cushioning around product edges.
This custom-designed and tested solution offers a sustainable alternative to foam packaging, meets the unique requirements of long, cylindrical products, and helps provide protection throughout the transportation cycle.
Our Design Center
You see an appliance ready for your customer; our design center engineers see multiple surfaces, corners, and components that can be damaged during transit.
- Assess – Together, we evaluate your product packaging requirements.
- Design – Our packaging engineers create solutions tailored to your product's needs.
- Execute – We produce prototype samples for evaluation.
- Manufacture – Local production through 12 dedicated plants across the USA.
- Support – We provide ongoing support throughout our partnership.
Optimal Outcome
- Eliminated 35 truckloads of single-use foam packaging
- Custom designed package met the challenges of long products with circular profiles.
- Aligned with environmental goals
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