Testing Corrugated Strength: Mullen Burst Test versus Edge Crush Test If you’ve ever received a shipment that arrived in a damaged box, then you know how important it can be to get box strength right. In fact, your … Read more
Timelapse Construction of a Custom Aerospace Crate We have been busy building custom aerospace crates for a client that needed to transport a fragile aircraft stabilizer. Check out this video of our technicians busy making one of these … Read more
Virtual Visit to Reid Packaging Welcome to the shop! In September, we invited a friendly video maker to the shop to help show our clients what we’re capable of. Below, you’ll find the first of several videos that … Read more
The Hardest “Cardboard”: The Various Factors that Affect Corrugated Strength, From Fluting to Stitching Previously, in our Cardboard vs Corrugated blog, we discussed the different ways of making corrugated fiberboard. Now we’re going to get further into that … Read more
Cardboard vs Corrugated: Why you are probably mis-identifying industrial packaging materials. Ever since you were a child, you’ve known that cereal comes in cardboard boxes. So why do we use the term “cardboard” to refer to corrugated material … Read more
Blocking & Bracing – Economical & Secure Matching the packaging approach with the product being shipped and its transportation journey is one of the most important and also the most difficult things about winning in packaging. Many companies see … Read more
Break Bulk Consolidation & packaging As we wrote last month, Atlanta is a great place to be doing business. It has recently been named “Supply Chain City” and ranks number two in American cities for supply chain capability. … Read more
The Lamborghini of Trade Show Crates For this year’s Industrial Pack trade show, Reid Packaging constructed a special crate to demonstrate the range of features and the wealth of knowledge that the company has in making high-quality, custom-designed, reusable … Read more
Heavy Duty Versatility # 1: Corrugated Boxmaking At Reid Packaging we organize our business around providing services that most directly meet the needs of our clients. This had led us to establish two unique and important goals that … Read more
Crates vs. Boxes: How to choose the right container for your packaging needs There’s one question that perennially occurs to people considering what kind of packaging they need for transportation or distribution purposes: What is the difference between a crate … Read more
