It’s Time To Create High-Quality Packaging Products

Packaging meets numerous businesses' needs, and it would be difficult to supply items to clients without adequate packaging. Collapsible boxes and cardboard boxes are extensively used packaging items that are utilized worldwide to accomplish the objective of packing, which is to transport goods to customers safely. As a result, packing materials must be strong and durable enough to withstand unfavorable situations such as compression, crashes, jerks, crushing, and so on during transportation. The qualities of packaging items may be easily examined using high-quality package testing equipment.

Things to remember before packaging:

• Carton Performance

• Everyone has seen a warehouse full of stacked crates.

• Corrugated cartons, often known as "Shippers," are typically employed as a secondary packaging material.

• Its primary function, like with other forms of packaging, is to safeguard its contents.

• Simply said, the job of a corrugated carton is to guarantee that the product reaches the end-user (Consumer) or POS (Point-Of-Sale / Retailer) in the state intended by the product's producer/manufacturer.

• To do this, the carton passes through a number of planned and unforeseen stages/conditions.

• Storage is the first and longest stage of the package's life cycle (after it has been packed). It spends over 90% of its life here.

• In warehouses, the cartons are stacked and stored (go-downs).

• This is also where 95% of the issues or poor performance occur.

• Desired compression strength calculation

• People frequently mix up "Compression Strength" with "Stacking Load."

• Stacking Load is used to calculate Compression Strength (CS) (SL).

• The amount of physical stress that a carton is required to bear at any stage in its life cycle is referred to as the stacking load.

• First, determine if the warehouse stack height is the same as the transportation stack height.

• Which one is higher if they are different? It is useful for computations.

• The formula below illustrates the stack height of 10 boxes, each weighing 30 kg (just for example).

Stack load = (number of cartons in the stack - 1) x gross weight

= (10 - 1) x 30 kg (each carton) = 9 x 30 kg

= 270 kg

• We now know that 270 kg of stack weight will fall onto the lowest box during storage or transportation.

• If the carton's Compression Strength was equal to or less than the Stack Load, the bottom carton would undoubtedly collapse.

• As a result, compression strength equals stack load multiplied by the safety factor.

*The above is merely a rough example of how to compute the safety factor to determine the appropriate CS standard. The given approach and values are not standard and may not be applicable to all sorts of items and packages. The information provided above is only general in nature and may require some refining or change to meet your specific needs.

• QUALITY OF PACKAGING AND ITS EFFECT

• Staples vs. Glue (Corrugated Box Joint)

The UEC Inclined Impact Tester is used to determine the impact strength of boxes and containers made of cardboard, plastics, or wood. Custom-designed models are available in scales ranging from 600 to 6000 pounds, depending on the user's preference, with required adjustments in terms of track length, dolly size, and so on.

The unit is toughly built to resist prolonged use. It has an automatic release mechanism, a traveling chain, and a drive motor that is controlled by a control panel installed on the unit.

Visit UEC’s website to know more.