For the past 15 years, Anchor Bay Packaging has been providing custom and standard expendable packaging solutions for overseas shipments. Our innovative designs efficiently cube out sea containers along with protecting your product throughout the supply chain. Our Engineering staff has designed and implemented over 200 custom export packs and our Account Managers have traveled the world gaining experience of what works and what doesn't. Unlike our competitors, Anchor Bay Packaging provides Program Management services in-house, ensuring that customers budgets and timelines are met.
Also, Anchor Bay Packaging provides a variety of export standard containers. These containers were designed for bulk shipment and are readily available for purchase. See attached file for current list of sizes and capacity.
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Export Packaging Keypoints:
- Packaging design should protect part quality during international modes of transportation.
- Packaging design should maximize part density in the container.
- Packaging design should be created to fully utilize the interior dimensions of a sea container.
- 40’ sea container usable dimensions:
- High Cube: 470” x 90” x 100” (door opening)
- Standard Cube: 470” x 90” x 90”
- Optimal outside container dimensions
- Width: 89” or 45”, (30” only when necessary)
- Height:
- High Cube: 25”, 33” or 50"
- Standard Cube: 22”, 30” or 45”
- Length: 47”, 52”, 58”, 67” or 78”
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- Pallet considerations
- 4-way entry
- Corrugated preferred
- H.T. Wood when weight or part size dictates
- Internal dunnage
- If part separation is necessary
- Corrugated preferred
- Plastic, foam, wood, solid fiber can be considered
- Testing methods
- Transportation simulation
- Compression testing
- Incline testing
- Field testing
- VCI protection available at the discretion of the Tier 1.
- VCI Film or Bag
- Oil
- Incline testing
- VCI Emitter
- Other considerations
- Ergonomics
- Line-side display
- Recyclability
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