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