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Custom heavy duty packaging

Heavy-duty packaging is your best option if you require the highest level of protection for your products or components during transit.

Typically using double or triple-wall cardboard, your heavy-duty packaging can also include additional materials, such as timber, foam, and barrier films, to ensure it provides the optimum level of protection during handling and transit. Many engineering and manufacturing businesses use heavy-duty packaging for bulky, high-value, and fragile products, parts, and equipment.

At GWP, we design and manufacture custom, heavy-duty packaging that is precisely tailored to your requirements. This approach ensures you get the most cost-effective and sustainable solution, alongside maintaining your packs’ performance through the supply chain.

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Benefits of our heavy duty packaging

By working with GWP, you can source heavy-duty packaging that features:

  • Material grades carefully chosen by expert designers.
  • Bespoke sizes and structural design that eliminate costly damage during shipping.
  • A range of inserts and surface finishes, including water-resistant, VCI and anti-static.
  • Eco-friendly and sustainable materials that are easy to recycle.
  • Designs that are easy and quick to assemble and pack, improving productivity.
  • Genuinely cost-effective, saving your business money.
  • A managed inventory service for short lead times and guaranteed stock levels.
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FAQs

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What is heavy-duty packaging?

Heavy-duty packaging refers to any form of cardboard packaging used for safely transporting heavy, bulky, or expensive items. It typically uses a double- or triple-wall corrugated material but can also incorporate wood, foam, films, and pallets. Heavy-duty packaging using multiple materials is known as composite packaging.

What materials does heavy-duty packaging use?

Heavy-duty packaging typically uses a double or triple-wall cardboard material. However, adding foam, timber frames, wooden pallets, barrier films, bags and even specialist coatings to heavy-duty packaging can provide specific levels of protection and performance.

What does double wall and triple wall mean?

Heavy-duty cardboard is usually double-wall or triple-wall. These materials utilise two (double-wall) or three (triple-wall) layers of corrugated paper in their construction, providing increased strength compared to single-wall material.

What makes cardboard heavy duty?

Most double or triple-walled cardboard (i.e., has more than one layer of fluting) is deemed heavy duty. However, the weight (GSM) of the papers used in producing the corrugated board can also be varied to achieve different strengths.

What is the strongest type of cardboard?

Triple wall cardboard, such as Tri-Wall or Tri-Mite, is widely regarded as the strongest type of cardboard. It can provide strength and compression resistance similar to that of timber cases but is considerably lighter and easier to recycle.

Why work with GWP Packaging?

At GWP, we can offer you a broad range of heavy-duty packaging, all from a single manufacturer. Options include heavy-duty corrugated packaging (including Tri-Wall and Tri-Mite), timber cases, Correx®, foam inserts, and fittings.

However, a crucial benefit of our heavy-duty packaging is the ability to combine these materials and options to create composite packaging unique to your business.

Our team of designers assess and gain a complete understanding of your requirements before creating heavy-duty packaging that is tailored precisely to your products and application. This approach ensures that your packaging provides the optimal level of protection and usability while staying within any budget constraints you may have.

Ultimately, we ensure your packaging can withstand the conditions it faces during shipping, so your products, components or equipment arriving at their destination in pristine condition.

If this approach would benefit your business, please contact us to discuss your export packaging with our team of experts.

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