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Nefab ExPak - Plywood Box

An excellent transport packaging solution with over 60 years of proven success.

 

Although relatively small in Ireland, Plywood packaging is used widely right around the globe. It is seen as a cost effective transport package material that offers a more durable alternative with extra handling advantages when compared to heavy duty corrugated.

 

The advantage and added strength given by the ExPak’s plywood and steel construction ensures more effective handling and more stable stacking in transport. Also as Plywood remains stable and robust in humid conditions your product arrives safe and is seen by your customer in the same excellent condition in which it left your premises.

 

Key features:

• Ideal for everything from light to heavy, sensitive, and high-value products
• The Nefab ExPak is perfect for single or multi product flows
• Great stacking options in stores and in transit.
• Easy to assemble and customize (dimensions, handles, locks, etc)
• Protects against the ravages of difficult transport, long-term storage, and climate change.
• Hundreds of dangerous goods certified packaging solutions available 
• Meets international phytosanitary regulations for export compliant wood packaging
• no nails
• Delivered collapsed so units are easy to stack and store

Nefab Lightweight Pallet

 

 

Main advantages of the Nefab Light Weight Pallet:

 

• Lightweight and strong, perfect for export shipments
• Self financing product in Airfreight
• Reduces carbon emissions in transport
• Customized sizes are available up to a length of 3.1 m.
• Meets international phytosanitary regulations for export compliant wood packaging

Why Returnable Packaging?

Reduces Costs!

E xpendable packaging is typically used once and then thrown away. The cost of this package is added into the product unit cost.  Returnable packaging eliminates this recurring cost . If your packaging will remain constant for a long period, returnable containers and dunnage are frequently lower in annual cost than expendables.

 

The Initial investment will be significantly higher, however. Over a period of time, the cost of a returnable container system is typically much less than that of expendable one-way packaging.

 

Improves product protection  

Returnable containers are constructed to support heavy loads and to provide excellent resistance to impact, resulting in better protection of the product carried inside.

 

A well-designed returnable package can often provide more handling and storage protection then an expendable packaging.

 

Improves workers safety  

Returnable containers and pallets provide handles and smooth grasping areas for ease of use and reduce worker injuries.

 

A returnable can often be fitted with material-handling features, like handles, that would not be economically feasible with an expendable container.

 

I mproves housekeeping  

Returnable packaging eliminates dirt, dust, and the trash clean-up associated with expendable packaging.

 

Improves space utilization  

Returnable packaging is typically built to support heavy loads and stack high in the warehouse and trailer, saving space and eliminating the damage from crushed product.

 

Improves environmental impact  

Returnable packaging reduces the amount of trash going into the landfill. A package reused is one less package that will wind up in the solid waste stream. With fewer returnables going into landfills over a given period of time, the cost of packaging material disposal is greatly reduced.

 

An example;

1 returnable with a lifetime of 100 cycles replaces 100 expendable containers.

Weight for the expendable; 25 kg

Weight for the returnable; 40 kg

 

Total packaging material weight saving would be;

 

A closer look at the Nefab Cost Take Out in practice.

 

Savings in transportation cost.
Usually industrial manufacturers do not produce the packaging themselves so they have to buy it from packaging companies paying the transportation cost (in one way or the other). Nowadays, transportation costs are one of the biggest company expenditures. When a package is shipped fully assembled with no products inside, you are essentially paying to ship air, the product in this case inside of the outer packaging... sounds crazy, doesn’t it!! We agree!

In practice: To put it in figures (see the chart below), suppose we have a usual non-collapsible wooden crate and a foldable Nefab ExPak with the same inner dimensions (1180x780x1000). For transportation of 100 wooden crates 22,5 lm (loading meter) are needed which makes 2 standard Euro trucks while 100 Nefab ExPak’s take only 6 lm of the truck space which is not even a half! If the price for 1 lm is the same in both cases then by doing some easy number crunching we get that transportation of 100 wooden crates is 3, 75 times more expensive than for foldable Nefab ExPak’s.

 

 

 

Savings in warehouse space.

On average a foldable packaging solution saves up to 50 % of the warehouse space. This allows for additional floor space, for core products, and potentially increasing production volumes (if needed) due to the optimised space utilization.

Savings on handling - loading and unloading cost.

Having a foldable packaging solution allows to reduce significantly the time needed for loading and unloading of the packaging, which saves man/hours and of course the total costs as well.

Returnable Packaging

Usually returnable packaging is foldable, which gives it additional advantages compared to one-way nonfoldable solutions. For additional information see our section “ Why returnable packaging ”.

 

 

 

  Dangerous Goods and Packaging Material Testing

Material tests are used for all kind of materials used as packaging material. Here are examples of tests used to qualify plywood for our own produced NEFAB ExPak and NEFAB RePak products. The tests are;

• Bending Test-EPU: 4/86:89 - the ability of the package to withstand compression is based on the bending strength and bending stiffness of the sheet material. Therefore this is a vital test to perform in order to get the best possible packaging.
• Moisture Absorption Test - In order to determine the plywood box’s capability to protect the goods from moisture and to establish how moisture resistant the actual box will be a moisture absorption test is performed on the different batches of plywood used.
• Cutting–strength test, BS 6566:part 8:1985 - The cutting-strength test is performed to establish the strength of the glue, which holds the veneers of ply together to form the plywood-sheet. The testing methods vary a bit depending on the bonding material used in the plywood.
• Testing of Glue–Joints, SS 84 20 21:mom 6.1 - This test is very similar to the one used to measure the strength of the plywood. However, unlike that test the pressure is applied on both sides of the glue-joint, in order to get the maximum strain on the joint.
• Joint Test, sheet/steel(tongues and klammerband) material - The aim of this test is to determine the strength of the joint between the steel and the sheet material.