How can packaging offer more than just protection during transport? This is precisely the question addressed in our latest feature on the use of fibre-moulded packaging in the production process. No fewer than five specialist publications have picked up on our approach and are reporting on how custom-designed fibre-moulded packaging can also be used as an assembly carrier.
Thinking about packaging and the production process as a whole
Assembly carriers and shipping packaging share one crucial feature: they position and protect a product.
If the subsequent packaging is taken into account at an early stage during the planning of assembly and material flow, it can, under suitable conditions, take on additional tasks within the production process. For example, the product can be placed into the moulded fibre component during or immediately after assembly and remain there until dispatch. This reduces the need for additional handover stages, separate carriers and the associated handling steps.
MM Logistik
Turning packaging into an assembly carrier with fibre-moulded components
MM Logistik demonstrates the opportunities that arise when shipping packaging and assembly carriers are not considered separately, and under what conditions this combination can be economically viable.
→ Read the article on MM Logistik
MaschinenMarkt
Turning packaging into an assembly carrier with fibre-moulded components
MaschinenMarkt also takes up this approach, focusing in particular on the integration of fibre-moulded packaging into assembly, testing and automation processes.
→ Read the article in MaschinenMarkt
packREPORT
Buhl designs packaging as an assembly carrier
The trade magazine packREPORT also reports on buhl-paperform’s approach of considering packaging as a potential component of the production process right from the development stage.
→ Read the article on packREPORT
neue verpackung
When packaging becomes an assembly carrier
The trade publication neue verpackung demonstrates how fibre-moulded packaging can be taken into account right from the planning stage of assembly and material flow. The article also addresses the requirements of automated production processes and the question of when its use as an assembly carrier makes economic sense.
→ Read the article in ‘neue verpackung’
Economy & Industry
Fibre-moulded packaging as an assembly carrier: less handling, less effort
‘Economy & Industry’ takes up the approach of considering packaging and the production process together. The focus is on the potential of fibre-moulded packaging to reduce additional handling steps and the need for separate assembly carriers.
→ Read the article in ‘Economy & Industry’
More than just product protection
For us, these articles illustrate very clearly what packaging development is often about: not just the packaging material itself, but the entire process surrounding the product. Whether fibre-moulded packaging can take on additional tasks in assembly, handling or automation must always be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
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