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Returnable Packaging offers a number of advantages over traditional
packaging and other alternatives. Listed below are critical factors,
with accompanying real-world examples that should be considered
when choosing the proper packaging for your products:
Material Costs
Is your current packaging making the most efficient use of material?
By customizing each returnable packaging system to the unique needs
of the application, we can eliminate expendable materials and significantly
reduce your overall packaging costs.
Case History: Engine
Valve Trays
Product Protection
How well is your current packaging protecting your products? Our
returnable packaging systems ensure that each part is provided maximum
protection from both contamination and damage, minimizing parts
scrap rates and increasing quality assurance.
Case History: Custom Shipping
Trays
Efficiency
What about the intangible costs surrounding your current packaging
(manual loading/unloading, double handling, etc.)? A returnable
packaging system, designed and produced by Creative Techniques specifically
for your application, can improve product handling, maximize processing
efficiency and reduce unproductive labor hours.
Case History: Flexible
Seat Pallet System
Automation Integration
Is your current packaging in sync with your automated handling systems,
or causing bottlenecks? With a custom returnable packaging system
designed for your automated systems, you can achieve full integration,
eliminate costly slowdowns, and increase efficiency throughout your
manufacturing/distribution environment.
Case History: Flexible
Seat Pallet System
Ergonomics
Does your current packaging properly address the ergonomic needs
of your workforce? Creative Techniques can design and produce a
custom returnable packaging system that will improve your operating
environment, reduce employee stress and fatigue and help increase
productivity.
Case History: American
Axle Kitting Trays
Quality
Does your current packaging support your required level of quality
and product protection? Quality is the most critical component when
selecting a strategy and supplier, and both must be thought through
carefully. As an ISO 9001 certified company, with a strong emphasis
on customer satisfaction and continuous improvement, Creative Techniques
employs practices and methodologies that ensure the highest standards
of quality across the entire material handling spectrum.
Case History: Wash Baskets
Durability
Returnable packaging systems, by their very nature, need to be robust
and durable. Unlike their traditional expendable packaging counterparts,
returnable packaging is designed to be used repeatedly, and may
be exposed to demanding environments, including chemical exposure,
automated handling, over-the-road transport, temperature extremes,
and other such abuses. A custom returnable packaging system from
Creative Techniques is engineered to withstand the abuses that occur
in virtually any manufacturing or distribution environment.
Case History: Duraspool®
Spools and Reels
Environmental Impact
Returnable packaging systems from Creative Techniques are significantly
more environmentally friendly than their traditional expendable
packaging counterparts. First, returnable packaging eliminates the
waste and disposal issues associated with other packaging, thereby
reducing landfill needs. Secondly, our products are made from environmentally
sensitive thermoplastics materials, so they can be completely recycled
and molded into new products.
Case History: Transmission
Subassembly Pallet System
Value
Designed precisely to your requirements, returnable packaging systems
from Creative Techniques provide the best value for the money. As
shown, our products offer many advantages over other packaging,
and will integrate flawlessly into your specific applications providing
ergonomic, durable and proven solutions.
Case History: American
Axle Kitting Trays
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