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Export Packing & Packaged Goods Service

Our export packing services are tailor made to provide the best packaging solutions for your goods and your business. We have invested heavily in our personnel and our state of the art equipment. Our advanced handling facilities are equipped with gantry cranes capable of lifting up to 60 tonnes, loading ramps and forklift trucks up to 18 tonnes.

Whether your consignment is travelling by road, rail, sea or air, we offer a cost-effective, safe and secure service.

Our bespoke packing service has a number of advantages and these include:

Regulation Conformity

Our export packing service is compliant with BS113 and UKWPMP ISPM15 regulations, ensuring your cargo arrives in perfect condition. All our cases, crates and pallets and bases are designed and manufactured onsite using only ISPM15 regulations.

Tailored to Manufacture and Design

Our services are tailor-made to provide the correct packaging for any size and weight of consignment for road, rail, sea or air. We are proud of our track record of designing and manufacturing packing boxes for any kind of freight.

Mobile Packing Teams

Our export packing services includes a very experienced project/mobile packing team, who are readily available to pack, load and dispatch at your premises, avoiding the need for you to move your cargo to one of our depots.

Storage

We offer one month’s storage on goods packed by us. This gives you the time to arrange shipment whilst keeping room at your premises for further production. Our warehouses are fitted with 60 tonne gantry cranes and 18 tonne fork trucks

Export Packing

by adminSep 24, 2019

Case Study: Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd.

Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd. approached us to get our expertise on transport and display cases for their Formula One cars. They specifically wanted a traditional wooden case rather than metal which they could use at events to showcase their F1 cars.

Initially we were only given the brief to construct display cases, however once the project got started we discovered that Mercedes were using two types of case; one for transport and one for display. We suggested we may be able to manufacture a case which could be used for both, something no other packing company was offering.

Previous R&D projects have allowed us to perfect our re-usable cases, which is where we started from. The project meant taking the re-usable cases a stage further. They had to not only be-reusable, collapsible and stackable when in their collapsed state, but had to be presentable enough for them to be used for display purposes and allow the contents, i.e. the racing car to be presentable as well.

We had to re-evaluate how we secured the cars within the case, as Mercedes would not want their cars displayed surrounded by support bracing or in foil bags. So for display purposes we had decided to remove a timber side and replace it with Perspex. We chose Perspex over glass for both structural and safety reasons. Perspex, although not as strong as glass, is more flexible and less likely to shatter. We had to source a particular type of Perspex that was not readily available. This particular type would give the same strength as glass and be incredibly scratch resistant.

By removing a timber side this raised the other issue of reducing the structural integrity of the case, which would prevent other cases from being stacked on top. This was something Mercedes had been specific about in their brief; they wanted to display multiple cars and cases in a variety of ways which included stacking. We had to determine a method that would allow the case to maintain its full structural integrity whilst being constructed without standard support. The key to this was making the cases interlock so that when they are stacked, the cases lock on to each other. This not only makes the cases more secure when they are stacked, but essentially they support each other as if they were a single case.

The construction of the cases themselves also had to be adapted. We had to use a much more intricate method. In addition we used bolted construction as this allowed the cases to be disassembled and re-used. However we had to source a particular type of bolt to provide the strength required to maintain the cases structural integrity.

To finish off the display aspect we varnished the cases, purely for presentation purposes and fitted internal lighting, which needed to be connected to an external 240V power source. In addition we fitted each case with an extraction system to ensure the temperature and moisture levels within the case could be maintained. The power supply for the lighting and extraction system are built so that only a single power source is required, regardless whether you need to power a single case or multiple cases, they can be interlinked, so only one cable is required to provide power.