Are you tired of hearing that the product was damaged during shipping? Glass bottles are especially delicate, and shipping damage can wind up costing a lot, resulting in product loss, time, and damage to your reputation.
Even label damage can hurt a brand and lessen the value of certain products, like wine. You need to protect products so they arrive in the best condition possible. The best solution for reducing the risk of damage and protecting products during shipping is corrugated and fiber cardboard partitions.
Why Cardboard Partitions Are Effective
Corrugated and fiber cardboard dividers turn boxes into small, protective compartments that keep your products secure and keep the items from colliding in transit. The great part of creating cardboard partitions in-house is that you can customize them and make adjustments. The proper packaging helps eliminate extra space in the box, ensuring your items arrive at their destination in good condition.
Partitions can easily be tailored to fit an array of different product sizes. When you’re protecting products during shipping, the key is reducing your empty spaces to keep those items nice and snug.
Bottles, particularly in the wine and spirits industries, need to arrive with pristine labels. Cardboard partitions prevent scuffing and small tears that can happen when the bottles bang around inside a box during the shipping process, especially when the partitions aren’t the right size.
While preventing bottle and label damage is typically the top reason for partitions, corrugated cardboard partitions also help enhance the shipping box’s structural integrity. Cardboard is naturally strong and durable. When you stack up boxes of products, the bottom row of the pallet won’t get crushed on the way to distribution.
When your product is stacked on a truck, the goal is to use as much of the truck’s volume as possible—to maximize shipping efficiency. When boxes are stacked on pallets, the bottom box ends up taking all the weight of the boxes on top of it. While bottles themselves are often strong, the partitions inside the boxes can help add to that stacking strength.
If you’ve ever wondered how to make cardboard stronger or how to reinforce a box, use corrugated cardboard! The added strength will keep your products safe.
While chipboard also works for partitions, corrugated cardboard is much stronger and more durable.
A Cleaner Choice for the Wine Industry
Besides protecting the glass itself, corrugated cardboard partitions also preserve the integrity of labels.
PPCM machines are ideal for the wine industry because they make extremely clean cuts. When cutting paper and cardboard, little scrap pieces often stay stuck to the cuts—in the industry, these are typically called “angel hair.”
While you can control angel hair a bit easier with fiber than with corrugated cardboard, you get more strength and protection from corrugated. When a PPCM machine cuts cardboard, it’s a cleaner, dust-free partition.
Older slotter machines and rotary machines continually turn with the rotating die plates, so it’s harder to get a clean slot without adding manual cleanup to the process. Tearing out these slots makes things quite messy and dusty. PPCM machines don’t leave you with that mess to deal with. Our machines are built with male and female die tools, leaving you with a cleaner cut.
With PPCM, you get high-quality partitions easily and quickly. Unlike flatbed die cutters and rotary drum, PPCM systems are easily adjusted. You can make the distance between slots extremely accurate and symmetrical. When you need partitions that can hold bottles at tight tolerances, rely on the results of a PPCM machine.
Benefits of Using Cardboard Partitions
For any industry that ships fragile, delicate, or breakable products, a PPCM corrugated or fiber cardboard partition machine is an excellent investment.
The benefits of cardboard partitions include:
- Reducing Breakage and Returns: Cardboard partitions reduce the likelihood of damaged goods, saving you costs on returns and replacements. Protect your bottom line.
- Cost-Effectiveness: Creating your cardboard partitions in-house is cost-effective. You’ll be able to create just what you need.
- Easily Integrates with Packaging Equipment: Cardboard partition machinery will easily integrate into your packaging line—without taking up too much floor space.
- Strengthens Box Structure: Partitions help strengthen the entire box structure—no worries about collapsing or deforming during transport.
A PPCM Machine Helps You Streamline and Strengthen Packaging Operations
If you’d like to create reliable, custom corrugated and fiber cardboard partitions, a PPCM machine can help you get it done. Our machinery makes sharp cuts, reducing the amount of dust and angel hair left behind. Operations are cleaner, more efficient, and faster.
Cardboard partitions help protect your business from the costs associated with product loss. There are no worries about products arriving damaged and broken. Labels stay intact. Even the boxes on the bottom row of your pallets are protected.
A PPCM cardboard partition machine helps you increase your output and make minor adjustments with ease. You’ll easily accommodate bottles and other packages of different sizes and shapes.
Get more out of your packaging process today with PPCM. Reach out to explore our line of cardboard partition die-cutting machinery and partition assemblers. We’re happy to help you find the right solution for your operations.