New Corrugated Box Design Is Dramatic Step Forward in Reusable Packaging
by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Plainfield, IL – The idea of reusing shipping boxes is nothing new, but Salazar Packaging has launched a line of shipping boxes that are made to be easily reversed and reused.
While it is easy for companies and consumers to reuse shipping boxes – one company, BuyGreen.com, exclusively reuses others' boxes – they end up accumulating extra shipping labels and marks to cross out previous logos or labels.
The Globe Guard reusable box, made of 100 percent recycled content and available in various sizes and thicknesses, was created with reuse in mind.
The patent-pending Globe Guard ® Reusable Box is a corrugated shipping container that can be quickly inverted after use to form a clean, like-new shipper. The breakthrough design, developed by sustainable packaging innovator Salazar Packaging, Inc., supports the multiple reuse of corrugated containers - while reducing overall cost in packaging and shipping operations.
The box is reversed by slicing the tape holding the bottom together and laying the box flat. One of the edges is perforated, which tears easily when holding down one side of it and pulling the other side up.
The underside of one edge has an adhesive strip, and after flipping the box around, the user pulls of the strip's covering and attaches it to the other side, resulting in a brand new box.
“Shipping boxes are typically still structurally solid after their first use,” said company president, Dennis Salazar, “but they are thrown away or recycled because of how they look. Our design enables the clean inside of the box to quickly and easily become the new outside, at least doubling the box’s life cycle. Essentially, the Reusable Box does the job of two boxes, possibly more.”
The Reusable Box is ideal for warranty claim and replacement shipments, repair and return operations, e-commerce returns, parts exchanges, product loaners, intra company and intra-office shipments, and other applications where more than one shipping container are used for shipping products back and forth.
Salazar Packaging's design enables the clean inside of the box to quickly and easily become the new outside, at least doubling the box’s life cycle. In addition, firms committed to supporting the environment can use the Reusable Box to communicate their sustainable values and encourage packaging reuse.
Beyond strengthening a firm’s sustainable packaging profile, the Reusable Box can produce cost saving by reducing material costs, streamlining procurement, eliminating SKUs, and conserving warehouse space. In addition the shipping boxes can be custom printed inside and out to make returns processing more efficient.
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