Styrofoam protection or cardboard packaging?
Hello
Let's assume you have a product, let's say a PV balcony system. You can imagine what this means. The question now is that this product is to be packaged in Asia.
I'm now wondering how sensitive it is to encase this product entirely in Styrofoam, similar to what we saw in tube TVs of yesterday.
Or whether you try to create a suitable cardboard packaging…
The primary goal here is not to package the product "somehow" but rather to get all the small parts into the box, ie a box.
I would be interested to know if anyone knows the costs of Styrofoam in Asia, perhaps a rough estimate… what do I know, based on volume or kg of (foamed) material.
Or if someone can tell me how to proceed
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I had already ordered several PV individual modules from various manufacturers, and all of them have been packed in cardboard and at most some air cushion film and/or a strip of PU foam film. Small parts were never in the carton, because assembly material must be ordered separately anyway.
In such mass articles of the present time, however, I would like to see Styrofoam only very unrinkable, but at most (in some cases) some cardboard for edge and panel protection.
In the case of pallet goods for the shipping from Asia to DE, the individual article protection is less relevant, since the pallet itself can be better protected from the outside. Packaging materials also consist of valuable resources, so that they should be used as sparingly as possible depending on the article and handling.
On the last mile from the wholesaler to the stationary retailer or even end-user, one could then possibly be able to reusable transport-protection packaging in the case of piece goods dispatch as in the System allocation think.
The unfoamed PS granulate in itself will hardly cost a little bit per ton, but the individual mold foam tools will still mean corresponding expenditure in the production. In addition, quite a large amount of energy in the form of hot steam is then required for foaming up various PS granules.
Fortunately, the Chinese seem to have already recognized this in increasing alternative form packaging made of paper-like plant fibers with the rough model of the egg carton.
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Hello, thank you have a lot of info…. this with the environmental aspect in size also gives me to think.. But the transport problems that can be solved by a good packaging make that bet….
I am primarily concerned with intra EU shipping, getting the goods from Asia is currently no problem. The problem lies in the EU, as the number of problems increases considerably. You don't have to talk about the quality of employees in this area…
Of course, the tool will cost a lot, even though only the shape is quite simply milled out.
Hmm
If you wanted to enter the business with the "Balkonkrafte" in person, you should personally think about your personal overall packaging of your convolute to deliver to the end user.
As I said, you can order both the panels and microinverters from Asia up to your operation as sorted pallet goods in light packaging for post-assembly with you during operation.
Cables, small parts and mounting material or you can then choose from Asia as a pallet product for the maximum possible addition to the mounting matrix per pallet for complete micro installations.
At home for the last mile, I would then, if necessary, consider myself a separate transport safety system for lightweight packaging in cooperative with (first of a) forwarding service provider in collective orders for the panels.
The Microinverter including cables, Gleingedöns and mounting material can Like this large Swedish furniture giant, you can do a lot of space in a normal collecting carton using a test specimen.
"Handle with Care" will be on the last mile away from the large pallet delivery Always to the risk factor, especially as the whole would have to be adequately portable for one person per package. At about 20 to 25 kilos per package, I see certain limits under the assumption that, unfortunately, it would not have to be available to the apartment door everywhere with transport aid, such as bag car, to the final customer (if desired also up to).
For the holding frame of the panels You otherwise have the concept of the support structure in mind for the possible question whether long angle / or U profiles are not possible by special packaging company association Asia not the same as the panels as a co-used supply protection element in their cartons around the panels.
The weight of 400 watt "Full-Size" panels, but hopefully you are well known in terms of One-Man handling in forwarding. 😎