Stronger box?

Does it need to be upgraded?

Samuel Grant Packaging says: "In isolation – yes – that is one way to fix the problem. A better solution is to look more closely at the packaging life cycle of the product from factory to point of use. Samuel Grant group’s team of highly trained packaging consultants will help the customer find best practice to get the goods to the end user with the minimum effective packaging required."

In the example pictured, Samuel Grant identified the boxes were regularly getting damaged because the pallets were falling over in transit.

"The problem was a badly maintained old stretch wrapping machine that was applying a large weight of stretchfilm but with low tension and no pre-stretch," says the firm.

"We installed one of our Samson Nano stretch wrap machines, continue to apply with low tension but used high power pre stretch and a much improved wrapping pattern.

"The result was much better containment of the load, and now the pallets don’t fall over. This has allowed the customer to begin trials using a 125K/t box to save even more."