Storage costs are down, too, while gains in packaging source reduction are impressive. Where the firm used to keep 160 pallets of EPS to ship a given number of monitors, it now keeps five pallets of knocked-down suspension packaging material.
The new protective packaging used by H-P is Sealed Air’s (Saddle Brook, NJ) Korrvu® material. It consists of top and bottom frames that suspend and immobilize the monitors throughout transit. Each frame is made of 275#-test B/C-flute double-wall corrugated with a 5-mil “engineered elastomeric film” stretched across a die-cut opening.
When the monitor is placed face down into the bottom frame, the elastomeric polymer stretches and molds around the monitor. H-P puts the top Korrvu frame on and insert the entire ensemble into a 350#-test B/C-flute double-wall corrugated shipper that is taped shut. Throughout transit, the monitor is suspended between the two Korrvu frames.
H-P packaging engineer Suzanne Keeler says she especially likes the fact that 19 different monitor variations fit into the same pair of Korrvu frames.
H-P’s package was recently named a winner in the electronics category of the 2001 AmeriStar Awards competition, sponsored by the Institute of Packaging Professionals (Naperville, IL). (PR)
To read about the other IoPP winners, see packworld.com/go/iopp
