Packaging material and related costs savings

Alongside total costsaving for transport and display packaging, it is also important to consider the costs for in printing, as well as the costs of labels, adhesives and the handling and storage.

Manual packing

Solid Board can be processed with considerably greater precision in comparison to corrugated board. The basis for this is the lower volume and the absence of flute ridges and depressions. This makes packaging designs possible which can not be realised with corrugated board. Manual packing is markedly simplified by the precisely processed and optimised Solid Board packaging design. As a consequence: saving costs and time.

Labelling

Due to its high quality lining paper, Solid Board can be printed directly using inkjet and laser printing processes. In doing so, barcodes can be placed directly on to the board. In many cases, this means adhesive labels are no longer required.

Storage

Optimal utilisation of pallet capacity will lead to great  savings for in-house logistics and storage.

Internal logistics of packaging materials

Solid board’s thickness is significantly lower than that of corrugated board. This means that the volume of delivered packaging material is reduced considerable. As a result, the costs throughout the supply chain can be reduced up to 50%.

Automatic packing

Due to the high stiffness and excellent flatness solid board combined with precise die-cutting and high folding accuracy, leads to a significantly higher efficiency in automatic packing processes.
Solid board packaging with easy open systems using reverse scoring, offer - in comparison to perforation - systems that are considerably more stable and thus enabling higher packing speed without faults or interruptions.

Palletising

Due to the fact that solid board is much thinner, the external dimensions of the packaging are 10 - 20 mm smaller than those of comparable corrugated board packaging. As a consequence, pallet utilisation is enhanced, usually by at least 10%. This results in a more stable load during transportation, less handling and less storage space an thus a substantial cost advantage in the supply chain.

Transportation

The positive consequence of the reduction in packaging volume leads to at least a 10% gain in pallet utilisation. This also has huge advantageous effects on transport and handling costs. The improved efficiency of pallet stacking normally leads to a reduced dynamic load during transportation. This means the loads on pallets can be stacked higher - leading to significant cost savings in the delivery chain.