Chapter 5. Top Packaging Types And Their Benefits

Creating boxes is not easy for any manufacturer, but we have some information if you want to learn about them. You can read about some common packaging box types you may be interested in creating.

Benefits of Packaging Design

Your packaging design can improve your sales and help get you better money for products. Great packaging design can help create curiosity about and tell about the product. Your designs create an experience in your customers’ minds and help them remember your product.

This way, you can also create a connection with them. Design helps improve your brand image and their unboxing experience. In this era of social media, a product needs to have an amazing unboxing experience for your customers and their social media audience as well.

At the same time, you can create seasonal promotions with your design to improve your sales.

Benefits of Food Packaging

There are several other benefits a food packaging product can offer, like

Food packaging can help avoid food wastage by protecting the products from various spoilers. In addition, the right portion sizing with food packaging also saves it from wastage.

Packaging helps improve shelf life and bring faster sales.
Customers are very often interested in the packaging literature surrounding the product’s nutritional information and other things.
You can save food against germs and other contaminations with packaging.
Using packaging saves it from any physical damage that improves product sales factors.

Retail Packaging

If you are a retailer, these boxes should be a part of your inventory. And if you are a vendor, these boxes are super important for your buyers, so you should offer these too:

Full Overlap Boxes

Telescope
Bath bomb
Cardboard boxes
Archive
Candle
Business card packages
Cigarette boxes
Folding Carton
Folding packaging
Essential oil packaging
Rigid Boxes
Invitation packaging
Mailer
Collapsible
Cigar packages
Corrugated packaging
Roll End Tuck Top Boxes
Shoulder

Now we know some essential box types in retail needs; you can read about them in the next section.

Folding Carton Boxes

This one is a common packaging type that works as a box and an external container for food or other products.

Full Telescope Boxes

These boxes work well when you need some extra thickness in the bottom. They also work well to offer wider dimensions for your products.

Folding Carton

These boxes work well for the strength they offer and are also flexible, and you can use them for several different designs. Moreover, you can customize them, and they are perfect for better design. So, you can print multiple colors and try several styles for such boxes.

Their cost-effectiveness is a great plus; you would love their features that beat many other types.

Corrugated Boxes

Corrugated boxes work well to protect your products, and this benefit makes them super special. Still, other benefits make it even more special. So, if you need boxes that help with your customization needs and are still cost-effective, these boxes are a great choice.

Benefits:

It protects your products from damage and helps control environmental factors like germs.
Their lightweight properties work perfectly to solve problems when you are shipping heavier products.
These boxes are cost-effective and so customizable that they offer super impressive branding opportunities.
You can customize your corrugated boxes according to your needs.
These boxes are biodegradable, making them green.
Also, you can find numerous sizes and other features to match your needs.

Paperboard Boxes

Some of the paperboard boxes would solve many of your packaging and transportation problems.

They protect your products from damage and are flexible for several shapes and sizes.
Paper boxes can be a great choice for vendors who need something lightweight.
Also, paperboard boxes can carry multiple product types.
These boxes are easily available, making them an available material.

Rigid Boxes for Packaging

Once you know boxes as a manufacturer or a vendor, you can consider using rigid boxes for their amazing benefits. If you want to use these, you can benefit from their strength as they help protect products better. Such boxes use condensed paperboard.

These boxes are famous for being handmade and strong. Also, they may cost you more, and you can use them for more expensive products. They should have the margin to pay for their shipment and other fees.

Custom Boxes

custom boxes uses

You can try using custom boxes if you have any of the following needs:

If you want stability during transit or want to use them for display.
You can try them for food packaging, which needs to keep products safe and sound.
Try them out for gift packaging.
Also, they offer great eco-friendly products.
They work super well to add sophistication to your product’s image.

Chipboard Packaging

Another type of packaging is famous for its benefits in several needs. It works well for the electronics, beverages, and food industries. However, using this material is not a recommendation for packaging heavier products.

Cardboard Boxes Manufacturing

Manufacturing cardboard boxes starts with using the right material for the process. Their look also depends on the type of to which they are created. Then the pulping process is done where trees are cut into logs, and then chips are created with them.

Two types of pulping may be used for such product production. Number one is chemical pulping, and the second one is mechanical pulping. Next, the wood is forced against a stone that creates pulp. The process also involves spray for water on this material.

On the other hand, chemical pulping uses the cooking of the material that reduces cellulose fibers. Pictures of different chemicals are used to improve these materials’ properties.

Fluting

The next process is called fluting, which involves board pieces put between liners. This way, you can improve its strength. The process is called corrugation, which looks like wavy lines when used inside boxes.

The Production Process

tips for packaging process

The process involves gluing one side of the flute. Next, the two liners are brought together by gluing them. In the next tab, the corrugated machine creates the box by cutting it according to size.

Then the die-cutter creates a stamp design on the stamp, and the board is cut out. Next, they are glued together.

Blowing these materials and parts allows better hygiene for the products that can be packed in them. Another machine for the sections and the boxes are then sent into the market for use. You can follow the packaging production process by reading about the different packaging types in this field.

Shipping Containers Production

The process starts with wall panel construction. First, steel sheets are cut down into smaller sheets. The next step is to add corrugation and then weld them. This way, you can create a tubular frame with these steps.

Then the welding process starts in which a slab like you can create a slab-like base. Next, you should remove repelled joints from its floor. In the next step, corrugated steel is cut, and you can create a case from it in steel tubing.

Next, you can install floor frames after wall panels. Then, you can weld walls and doors and attach roof panels.

In the next process, you can lift the boxes, and then you can position them on the floor frame top and weld them there. Then, lastly, you can lift and weld the roof panel.

Next, you can prime the containers and print them according to your needs. One of this process’s steps is to varnish the wood to make sure you save it against damage from pests and water. Then you can fit rubber seals in the box.

Next, you can fit wood flooring in the floor frame top. Also, you can fix panels into the steel beams. Then you can add labels on each box so your staff can identify them for distribution and other purposes. Lastly, you can spray the containers with a waterproof material.

Also, you should ensure zero leakage before considering the box fit for distribution or any other use.

Benefits of Packaging Design

Your packaging design can improve your sales and help get you better money for products. Great packaging design can help create curiosity about the product and tell about it. Your designs create an experience in your customers’ minds and help them remember your product.

At the same time, you can create seasonal promotions with your design to improve your sales.

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