Steps of carton packaging design

The carton packaging process involves many details. The packaging size design and structural design of the carton packaging are the two most important aspects. They are not only to help the product packaging design goals achieved, but also for businesses to save packaging costs and lower transportation costs. The steps of carton packaging design are listed below:

1. Optimize carton packaging size

The packaging is the end of production but it is the start of logistics. Reduce logistics costs should start from the foundation. Reasonable to optimize the carton packaging size, not only with the properties of the contents of the nature, shape, size, weight and display mode, and directly related to the flow of goods and the container space utilization efficiency. How to design the box size, a direct impact on the utilization of container space with inner packaging, outer packaging and shipping container. We can use carton size design software, making the box suitable for cargo and container, so that the container is loaded with more cargo.

2. Structural design of carton packaging

Good structural packaging design usually contains 6 steps

① Determine the environment of the transport container

The cruel judgment of the logistics environment is an important step of the buffer design, mainly to determine the load transportation dangerous and hazardous situation of containerized cargo. Accidental drop of the handing process, impact and stacking pressure and temperature and humidity limits, especially refrigerated container transport.

②Characteristics of the product

As the design basis, we need to enter such as: including physical and chemical properties, and thus to determine to adopt what kind of packaging and the structural characteristics of the product, such as size, weight, center of gravity, shape and mechanical properties, such as the fragility, natural frequency and compressive strength etc..

③Improve the product

According to the fragility of the products we tested, and sometimes increase the strength of the product itself is better than expensive packaging. Between the product cost, product reliability and packaging costs, we need to be blance against the small improvements and new design products, sometimes can increase the fragility of the product to lower down the packaging cost.

④Evaluate the performance of the buffer material

In order to ensure product security, the selection of the buffer material in the container transport must be considered. Buffering properties of the materials should be provided by the manufacturers of the material of the production. Under exceptional circumstances, must be measured by themselves, it includes the ability of material to absorb the impact and vibration transmission characteristics.

⑤Structural packaging design

The structural design of the carton packaging must meet the dual role of shock and vibration protection. But in fact there is often a contradiction which best meet the design of impact protection is not necessarily the best design to meet the shock protection, along with restrictions on the material, in this case we should make decision according to the above information and technical requirements.

⑥Test

At the end of the structural packaging design, it need to check the packaging whether meets the desired effect or not. The carton packaging design through the six steps to complete the structural design work, each step is very important and neglectable.