Uncover hidden cost savings of up to 66% in your packaging operations.
Cutting your packaging costs isn’t about buying the cheapest products on the market but buying the right product and implementing it correctly.
Whilst cheaper packaging may appear to save you money, it is likely having a significant negative impact to your bottom line.
Why? Cheap packaging is, more often than not, poor quality and this could potentially be destructive to your business operations.
How?
After selecting the correct product, it is important to ensure it is implemented correctly and optimised. Optimisation will ensure that it is running as effectively and efficiently as possible which will reduce downtime and waste. On average we have helped our customer achieve a saving of 27% by working with them to implement transit packaging correctly.
Our Process
By analysing your packaging products, equipment and processes our expert team will identify ways to improve the efficiency of your packaging operations and demonstrate cost savings to improve your bottom line.
Transit Packaging
Audit
By assessing your packaging usage and processes we can identify opportunities for savings and advise on improvements across your packaging operations.
Pallet Stacking
Formation
Reviewing how your pallets are stacked and wrapped with the Lindum team nearly always results in an improvement for our customers.
Pallet Wrap &
Stabilisation Products
We will recommend the best stretch film and pallet stabilisation products for the goods you are wrapping. And calculate the exact amount to use for optimal load security and pallet stability.
Optimise Machine
Wrapping Settings
Crucial for packaging performance, Lindum will set up your pallet wrapping machines for optimum performance with the stretch film we recommend.
Packaging Processes
and Systems
Our specialists will carry out an in-depth review of your systems and processes to highlight optimisations and efficiency improvements, as well as opportunities to introduce new working practices.
Pallet Stability
Testing
Our EUMOS accredited Mobile Pallet Stability Test Lab will help you to greatly reduce the risk of movement in transport and the associated, unnecessary costs.
Real results from our customers’ packaging audits
31% reduction in operational downtime
With greater stretch capabilities, longer reel lengths, superior puncture resistance, guaranteed roll lengths and multiple-layered durability, our stretch and pallet wrap films will make a huge impact on your packaging operations and your plastic usage. We have over two decades’ experience in working with companies and getting the best out of their pallet wrap. One key benefit we bring is the expertise and guidance in ensuring you are using the right pallet wrapping film for your specific packaging operations.
59% reduction in plastic waste
With greater stretch capabilities, longer reel lengths, superior puncture resistance, guaranteed roll lengths and multiple-layered durability, our stretch and pallet wrap films will make a huge impact on your packaging operations and your plastic usage. We have over two decades’ experience in working with companies and getting the best out of their pallet wrap. One key benefit we bring is the expertise and guidance in ensuring you are using the right pallet wrapping film for your specific packaging operations.
54% less cash tied up in packaging stock
With greater stretch capabilities, longer reel lengths, superior puncture resistance, guaranteed roll lengths and multiple-layered durability, our stretch and pallet wrap films will make a huge impact on your packaging operations and your plastic usage. We have over two decades’ experience in working with companies and getting the best out of their pallet wrap. One key benefit we bring is the expertise and guidance in ensuring you are using the right pallet wrapping film for your specific packaging operations.
59,788 tonnes CO2 saving
With greater stretch capabilities, longer reel lengths, superior puncture resistance, guaranteed roll lengths and multiple-layered durability, our stretch and pallet wrap films will make a huge impact on your packaging operations and your plastic usage. We have over two decades’ experience in working with companies and getting the best out of their pallet wrap. One key benefit we bring is the expertise and guidance in ensuring you are using the right pallet wrapping film for your specific packaging operations.
Could you save two thirds of your packaging costs?
There’s a lot that can be done to optimise your transit packaging to reduce packaging costs and have a positive impact on your profit. Lindum work with global manufacturers day in day out to deliver packaging cost savings and improved efficiencies across the supply chain that all benefit the bottom line.
With decades of knowledge and expertise in the packaging industry our specialist team are highly trained to evaluate your packaging operations to deliver real-world savings. So many of the most common mistakes we see when conducting a packaging audit are easily fixed with small, simple changes that not only save you money but deliver long term benefits.
Whilst applying more film may get you better stability, it is not a sustainable or cost-effective solution. By optimising your machine settings, wrap pattern and materials you can fix instability issues without using additional stretch film and in some cases even using less. It is important to test any changes to packaging using an approved method such as our Mobile Pallet Stability Test Lab.
Gauge is the thickness of the stretch film, and this is especially important when wrapping heavy and awkward loads, to improve stability and avoid puncturing the wrap. However, we often see businesses using an over specified film for their requirements and simply by switching to a thinner film, notable cost savings can be made. For example, we worked with a company wrapping boxes of crisps with a 17-micron film, which was unnecessary as their pallets only weighed around 100kg and had no awkward obtrusions. By reducing this to a thinner 10-micron film, we managed to reduce the weight of the stretch film used to below 80g and therefore make them huge cost savings.
Another mistake we often see is using the wrong type of film for your wrapping machinery. Using a power pre-stretch film on a core brake machine is hugely inefficient and by switching to the correct pre-stretched film, massive savings can be made. Our Transit Packaging Audit will identify any opportunities for cost reduction and our team will work with you closely to implement the solutions successfully.
Optimising your machine settings will reduce the chance of snapping and therefore remove unnecessary downtime. The correct machine settings will also mean that your stretch film is being stretched to it optimum percentage meaning it is being used efficiently and as cost effectively as possible.
Calculating and comparing stretch film costs based on cost per roll or kg is an inaccurate representation. We recommend measuring cost per pallet. This helps to show how a film that is cheaper per roll/kg may be more expensive when cost is calculated per pallet than a higher quality film which costs more per roll/kg. This is because a cheap, low-quality film will have very limited performance meaning more is required to wrap every pallet and to achieve pallet stability.
Pallet instability is the biggest cause of movement in transport. This means that, by transporting unstable pallets, you are risking product damage during transport which is an unnecessary cost. Not only is there the loss of damaged goods but also the less obvious, associated costs such as clean up and rework costs as well as the cost of redelivery. Fixing pallet instability issues is an important step to reduce costs and approved testing methods such as our EUMOS accredited Mobile Pallet Stability Test Lab will help you to identify and solve this problem.
Use the contact form below or speak to a member of our team on +44 (0)1469 574 480 to book your Free Transit Packaging Audit.
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