Cardboard boxes: Important concepts to choose the optimal packaging.

In the first place, when we look for our cardboard boxes or optimal packaging , it is to define our needs, all very well determined, because this will be the basis of all our choice.

As a priority, we have to define our budget , 15 cents, 50 cents, 1 euro or two euros per box. Once we decide our unit budget, we must evaluate how many boxes we need per month or quarter and see if it is profitable to increase order quantity, in order to reduce costs. This section is intrinsically related to the space we have to store the boxes. Once we have defined our budget and space, we must see what we need, what product we need to insert in the cardboard box and what use this box will be given to.

Characteristics of the box.

• Size of length, width and height of it.
• Resistance, both to the stackability and to the blows it may receive.
• Fragility of the product that we need to pack.
• Image of our package.
• Touch of our package.
• Form of packing and unpacking.

We are going to define each of the characteristics and seeing that we have to take into account for each of them.

The size of the box is important, and will depend on what we need to pack, if it is a single product, determine the size of the cardboard box will be simple, we only need to measure the object and we will know the size of the box. However it is advisable to make a sample to check with the object, in order to ensure the measurements.

If on the contrary we must put several products or that same box is going to be used for several different products and according to the order we will have some needs or others. We can resort to modify the height of the box with cuts or we can use all kinds of fill, whether bubble, wool, newspaper etc

We have to study what use we are going to give it, if we are going to use it in order to palletize and deliver ourselves. We must take into account especially the stack ability of it, what weight we will place in each box and how it will be distributed. If the same product will do resistance to the stack ability and actually the box what it does is a sleeve, our packaging will be considerably cheaper, for example, boxes for oil cans, which are usually single channel, despite housing a quantity of important weight. Or if only they will be boxes for storage .

If the cardboard box we need to use it to make shipments by agency , this type of box suffer a lot in transport, we must bear in mind that each box passes through several trucks and that the transport from truck to truck, is not always by hand in hand, but truck to ground, that is 1 meter and a half or two of fall is what we can find. We must bear in mind that in transport, although they are professionals and try to optimize, in addition to the space of the trucks the placement of the same, we can find that sometimes our package that is fragile is in the lower part, so that It must bear great weight. for more detail about packaging please visit our site: Cardboard boxes: how to choose