Many companies who have hundreds and even thousands of product sizes find it a challenge to come up with a package that will fit each product size exactly. Generally speaking products sizes change frequently and stocking a carton for each sku is generally not cost effective. The solution has been to work with a limited number of box sizes that will fit all the products even though the box is oversize. This allows the corrugated supply chain manager to manage a handful of box skus without carrying box sizes to fit every product. The downside is shipping rates increase because of dimensional weights and billing weights opposed to actual weights because the oversize carton jumps up into the next rate bracket. To address this challenge many companies are turning to making their own boxes on box making machinery and equipment. This enables a company to lean out their corrugated supply chain and simplify corrugated inventory by only having to purchase 3 or 4 corrugated skus.
Corrugated fanfold is a continuous sheet of corrugated material that comes in 1000 foot bales. Three or four fanfold bales are stacked behind a CNC box making machine which enables a company to manually make a carton from the control panel or program the machine to sequence production of boxes in many different styles and sizes. Not only does the box making machinery provide incredible packaging flexibility, it also decreases box inventory and boxes from becoming obsolete. Space that once was used for storage now becomes opportune for increased production and other effective uses other than storage and inventory.
There are a number of machines that make boxes on the market but the Packsize EM7 box making machine trumps them all and is the most innovative on demand corrugated system to date. This CNC box making machine can produce many different styles of corrugated and sizes are infinite. Production capability is up to 8,000 boxes per 8 hour shift and the EM7 can reposition the corrugated in the machine in a reverse and forward motion, thus making boxes to the exact tolerance and size. Read More: http://www.cardboardboxes4u.com/run-your-own-boxes/
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