Midland can audit your facility to make sure your product is being packaged in the best way possible to prevent damage during transit to the end user!

1. Packing & Packaging
Guidelines
Prepared for:

2. Midland Container Background
 John Revitte – Account Manager
 Scott MacFarland – Packaging Designer
 Provide your corrugated cartons & packaging
 Out plant is located in Franksville
 Partners with Thermal Transfer for over
35 years

3. Challenges to Packaging
 Items with many different shapes
• Long & skinny
• Flat & Wide
• Bulky
• Multiple items with different shapes on a skid
 Heavy weight items with sharp edges
 Need to make it through UPS Freight or LTL
shipment and arrive undamaged to customer

4. General Packaging Guidelines
 Box 101 – Tell you a little bit about boxes
 What type of box should be used for this
product?
 What cushioning should be used?
 How to close the box securely?
 How to secure the box to the skid?
 Not to criticize…just help you get better

5. Box 101 – Common Box Styles
 RSC – Regular Slotted
Container
 Standard type of carton 
for most items
 Used for hardware boxes
 FOL– Full Overlap
Container
  Stronger than RSC
 Used for heavier items
 Double bottom & top

6. Box 101 – Common Box Styles
 Telescope Tray Pack
 Used for flat products
 Easy to “top load”
 Should be sealed with
staples

 Five Panel Folder
  Used for long items
 Easy to “top load”
 Should be sealed with
staples

7. Box 101 – Common Box Styles
 Inner Packing-Slit
Score
 Used to take up space
inside a box, protect
corners of square items 
 Can be assembled with
staples or tape
 Scored Rollup
  Used to take up space
inside a box
 Can be assembled with
staples or tape

8. Cushioning Interior Parts
 Products must be cushioned properly to
protect from shock/vibration which can pass
through the walls of the box
 Cushions product-to-product interaction
 Recommend a minimum of 1” of cushioning
around product
 Cushioning to keep product no less than 1”
from box walls

9. Cushioning Interior Parts
 Material Suggestions
 Bubblewrap – Good for
small, random shaped
parts. Doesn’t work the
best for sharp objects.
 Corrugated
Inserts/Rollups – Good
for square rectangular
product. Inexpensive but
will not withstand
repeated drops

10. Cushioning Interior Parts
 Material Suggestions
 Air Pillows – Take up a
lot of room for little cost
and work well for round
or curved shapes
 Foam Corners – EPS or
PE is common. Work well
on square or rectangular
items of medium to
lighter weight.

11. Box Closure
 Stapling (Trays & Heavier Items)
 Minimum should be 3 staples per flap (unless flap is too
small)

12. Box Closure
 Taping (RSC & FOL style boxes)
 Proper H taping method
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 Types of tape
 Pressure sensitive plastic tape
 Nylon reinforced filament tape (60lb
recommended)

13. Palletizing the Box
 Select a proper sized pallet for the job
 Inspect pallet for broken boards and runners
 No more than 4 inches of exposed pallet deck
(underhang)
 We recommend no more than 2 inches of
overhang (unless the product is self supporting)

14. Strapping the Box to the Pallet
 Use V-Board or wood top boards to prevent straps
from digging into the corrugated box
 Use strapping to secure heavy items to the skid
WATCH STRAP TENSION – Not Too Tight
 Use stretch wrap to secure lighter items to skid &
help to prevent moisture damage
 Use “No Stack” cones to help discourage
double-stacking when necessary
 Use appropriate labels (This Side Up, etc.)

15. Case Study Examples
No V Board or
Wood Boards
Straps too tight

16. Case Study Examples
Properly
labeled and
marked
Properly stacked
corner to corner Good use of boards
to protect box from
straps

17. Case Study Examples
Properly labeled
Straps to tight
Open Seam where
box is pieced
together

18. Case Study Examples
Properly labeled
Reasonably good job closing with tape
Straps to tight
Open Seam where
box is pieced
together
Better if taped along entire length

19. Case Study Examples
Properly labeled
Straps to tight
Box not sealed
Open Seam where
box is pieced
together

20. Case Study Examples
Good selection of pallet
size to match the box Properly labeled
Straps to tight
Acceptable amount of crush
Open Seam where
without v-boards or top boards
box is pieced
together

21. Case Study Examples
Properly labeled
Watch strap crush
Straps to tight
Open Seam where
box is pieced
together
Box / Pallet proper size
to work together

22. Case Study Examples
Properly labeled
Good stapling job
Straps to tight
Proper Labeling Seam where
Open
box is pieced
together

23. Case Study Examples
Another example of
excellent stapling & Properly labeled
palletizing
Straps to tight
Open Seam where
box is pieced
together

24. Case Study Examples
Properly labeled
Straps to tight Straps tearing
through
Open Seam where
box is pieced
together
Open corner

25. Case Study Examples
Properly labeled
Straps to tight
Open corner
Open Seam where
box is pieced
together
Stretchwrap helps…

26. Case Study Examples
Account for depth of
Properly labeled flaps when building
frames inside
Straps to tight
Open Seam where
Frame is too tall box is pieced
and will cause flaps together
to roll

27. Case Study Examples
Properly labeled
Straps to tight
Open Seam where
box is pieced
together

28. Case Study Examples
Properly labeled
Straps to tight
Open Seam where
box is pieced
together

29. Questions?
 Anything? Properly labeled
 Anything?
Straps to tight
 We are here to provideOpen Seam where
support if you think of
box is pieced
anything related to packaging, let your
together
supervisors or managers know and they can
get us involved!