Why Test Packaging Is Crucial For Your Products?

 

One of the crucial steps in the product packaging designing and packaging optimization is test packaging. Surprisingly, this step is not given adequate importance despite the fact that it will serve as the single flame test to establish whether your packaging design is capable of meeting the demands of the shipping process and provide your products adequate protection.

Each product presents a unique packaging challenge and you need rise up to this challenge and ensure that your product reaches your customers safely. Since every packaging scenario is unique, whatever you have put together as packaging would be nothing more than calculated guesswork. You just presume that the packaging will hold together going through the extreme shipping conditions. How will you know whether it actually does if you have not subjected your packaging to the actual shipping and handling conditions? This is where test packaging gains significance. This removes the guesswork out of ensuring the best packaging solutions.

Only after the test run, you will know whether the cardboard boxes you have used are of the right thickness and whether it could house your product safely without buckling in.

Your test packaging needs to simulate the actual pallet conditions and test the strength of the stretch film to ensure it holds the boxes together despite subjecting the pallet to extreme handling conditions.

When you have successfully run test packaging, you would have established the reliability of your packaging. This will protect you from losing money on damaged products, as you would have rectified 99% of the issues. You will be able to confidently ship your products without having to worry about major damages to your products during shipping.

If you want to take your test packaging one step further, you could try multiple packaging strategies at the same time and put all of them to similar shipping conditions. This will help you find out which packaging strategy works the best for you and thereby establish which is the most cost effective way to package your products.

The assumption here is that you have selected the best quality packaging supplies sourced from the most trusted packaging supplies manufacturer. There is no point going for test packaging exercise if you have not taken care to source the finest quality shipping supplies. Get quotes from the most reliable packaging supplies companies so that you know you are sure to get the required protection for your products during shipping.

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