Ecorrcrates: Shipping Crates from Corrugated Lumber

Better than a Wooden Crate

Make crating your easiest task with the revolutionary and patented Ecorrcrate®, a standalone, all-corrugated shipping crate solution. Presented in a convenient, easy-to-use format, Ecorrcrate is designed to better protect your product at a lower cost.

Ecorrcrate, revolutionary shipping crates

It’s a shipping crate made from corrugated lumber

We know determining ROI for your company’s bottom line is a top priority. As a top packaging supplier, Ecorrcrate was designed to be budget-friendly. Take this opportunity to evaluate your front-end and back-end costs, product replacement rates, and the associated cost of poor customer experiences before finalizing a decision on your shipping crate solution.

Start On The Right Foot

Ecorrcrates are typically less expensive than common wood crates, which is a great starting point.

Reduce Freight

As a lightweight shipping crate solution, Ecorrcrate will lower your freight costs in most situations.

Setup Is A Breeze

Ecorrcrate is convenient. Easy, safe, and fast setup saves time and lowers packaging labor costs.

Reuse & Repeat

Ecorrcrates are often reused at a much higher turn rate than the traditional wood alternative, leaving you with four distinct savings opportunities on shipping crates.

Convenient

Lightweight

Durable

Sustainable

Shipping Crate Industry Highlights

Aerospace

ECORRCRATES® are rapidly becoming the shipper of choice in Aerospace. Now in use with several Top Tier OEMs as well as the early adopters in the 2nd and 3rd Tier levels. With the lightweight nature of Aerospace parts and assemblies, traditional wood shipping crates are often 70-80% of the total shipment weight. With rapidly escalating freight costs, it is more important than ever to reduce the shipping weight.

ECORRCRATES are 40-75% lighter when compared to wood crates, with freight savings of 15-30%, on average. Simply put, ECORRCRATES are reducing cost and outperforming the shipping crate competition.

Agriculture

FDA-approved for direct food contact, ECORRCRATES® are the perfect alternative to fixed-sized bins. The knock-down storage design minimizes storage for reuse, and, no more low-weight limits on stacking strength. With the incredible ECORRCRATE stacking strength, you will reduce finished good storage space.

ECORRCRATES will not only hold moisture in or out, but will have less internal temperature variation as compared to other common shippers. Need to hold a specific temperature range? Let us design-test a shipper that meets ALL of your needs.

Automotive

The automotive industry is ahead of the curve in reusable packaging! A variety of reusable roadables are already in use. But do they address the issues of weight reduction for lower shipping costs, incredible stacking strength to better utilize floor space, the use of 100% renewable resources, or the high cost of refurbishing and replacing damaged shippers? No.

ECORRCRATES® do all of this and more! Ideal for shipping a wide array of automotive parts, from wiring harnesses to motors, let’s get started on your shipping crate project.

Construction

Doors, windows, and other prefabricated construction products are often shipped in wood-structured containers. Shipping these products in this way is time-consuming. Building the wood shipper, adding bracing, protective foams, and other surface protectors, as well as a significant increase in shipping weight, all add up to higher costs. On top of this, disposing of the packing material is challenging.

ECORRCRATE® is a robust shipping crate alternative that will reduce your costs. The primary building material in ECORRCRATE, ECORRBOARD®, in conjunction with ECORRblocks will better protect your heavy, yet fragile products, from shipping damage. Increased and safer productivity, lower shipping weight, better protection for the product, and easily recycled / light-weight disposal all add up to cost savings. Colony Packaging & Machine is ready to work on your next project.

Energy

EORRCRATES® are ideal for shipping into the Energy sector. Products shipped in for use in the Oil, Gas, and Renewable Energy sectors are typically installed in the field (literally) and often near waterways. Lightweight ECORRCRATES make delivery and re-positioning a breeze, while carefully protecting your critical components from the elements without disrupting nature.

Disposal of ECORRCRATES is easy. The lightweight components of ECORRCRATE break down quickly with no need for tools, and the material is gentle on the environment and wildlife. Disposal is a snap.

Disposing of heavy wood shipping crates is challenging:

1. Must be broken down with tools.
2. Finding a proper disposal in rural areas.
3. Getting rid of excess, non-eco-friendly products.

Let us design an ECORRCRATE utilizing ECORRBOARD® dunnage blocks for a completely sustainable solution. Eliminate your “in-the-field” trash hazards with ECORRCRATE.

Export

ECORRCRATES® are always ISPM15 export-compliant, whether shipped on a heat-treated and stamped wood pallet, corrugate pallet, or plastic pallet.

Many countries, including all countries in Europe and, most recently, Japan, are highly resistant to receiving products in all-wood shippers. Wood disposal in many countries is a costly issue. But, corrugated boxes are gladly accepted, given the ease of recycling. Most countries maintain rigorous corrugated recycling programs, making ECORRCRATE the export shipper of choice!

The proprietary ECORRSHIELD® Water-Resistant Linerboard offers excellent water-holdout (or hold-in, depending on need), allowing for stronger, sturdier, and safer containment. And, the standard ECORRCRATE is moisture-absorbing on the inside, pulling moisture away from your product as it travels in its onboard shipping crate container bound for overseas.

Furniture/Wood Products

Better protect your elegant and high value furnishings with ECORRCRATE.®

Packaging furniture efficiently and cost-effectively is a challenge. Metal and wood furniture for the home, office, medical facility, and hospitality industries are heavy products that, unfortunately, easily incur damage from dings and structural failure. Upholstered products are highly susceptible to damage from rubs and scuffs in transit.

Unlike many industries, shipping furniture requires a significant amount of packaging that generates a lot of waste. Wood and metal are great for making furniture but are not so great for packaging with the increased opportunity for incidental damage. There is nothing more frustrating than for you to take the time and effort to securely package your product, just to have it damaged during unpacking.

ECORRCRATES reduce waste and offer a high-performance, easy-to-use, lighter-weight, durable shipping option for all of your high-value furnishings.

Healthcare

Within the Healthcare Industry, there is a broad spectrum of products shipping in robust, secure containers across the country and across the world. These high-value, high-cost products include Pharmaceuticals (liquid and solid), durable medical equipment, large and small diagnostic equipment, and sensitive metering and testing equipment.

Many of these products require higher-cost, temperature-controlled shipping to meet industry requirements. Climate-controlled shipping is great, up to the point where your refrigerated product inadvertently freezes due to the uncontrollable variations in Reefer trailers.

With improved insulating characteristics as compared to a traditional wood shipping crate, ECORRCRATE® provides a temperature barrier from the external shipping and storage environment, allowing you to better manage and limit internal temperature variation in your shipment.

Also, the higher cost of climate-controlled shipping makes the shipping weight an important part of any cost-reduction plan.

Industry

Companies shipping textiles, plastics, fabricated metal, bulk materials for recycling, lawn equipment, agricultural and landscaping products, electrical and plumbing products and equipment, cylinders, motors, pumps, valves, drill bits, batteries, bearings, and other heavy-duty gear need a compact, easy-to-use, durable shipping crate to meet their industrial packaging needs. ECORRCRATE® is all of this, and more.

Your product will travel through your supply chain with ease due to the superior levels of stacking strength, weight containment, shock absorption, and water-moisture resistance without the added shipping weight of a traditional wood shipper.

Sporting

In the sporting world, there are many large, heavy, high-value products that must ship in a durable shipping crate. The large variety of products going through retail, or direct-to-consumer via online sales, makes it virtually impossible to ship in a reusable container, so maximizing performance while managing cost and minimizing waste is a challenge.

When shipping in a wooden container, your customer is left to dispose of these heavy and risky materials. How many of the shipping damage complaints you receive are a direct result of incidental contact with the wood shipper?

ECORRCRATES® are economical, easy-to-recycle, light-weight for handling while providing hardcore protection of your products; whether you are shipping Outdoor gear for hunting, boating, fishing, camping, cycling, or motor sports (Dirt Bikes, motorcycles, scooters, off-road recreational vehicles, Golf Carts) or your sports team’s equipment (football, baseball, hockey).

ECORRCRATES are ideal for meeting the challenge. ECORRCRATES make it easy to deliver a great customer experience.

Telecom

ECORRCRATES® are ideal for safely packaging heavy, yet delicate, high-cost items. Tired of damage to cabinets and other peripherals? Tired of hauling heavy packing materials down the elevator to fill the dumpster? Incidental damage in the Telecom sector is a nightmare. Attempting to mitigate incidental damage in Telecom can be an even bigger nightmare.

And, the high-value nature of Telecom products requires performance packaging. But getting the performance packaging separated from the structure for recycling is simply too time-consuming, so recycling borders on impossible. Not the case with Eco-friendly ECORRCRATES. With the right design, we can not only make it possible, but we can make it easy to recycle. And do it in a robust and effective shipping crate.

Reduce your costs, improve performance and your customers’ experience, as well as reduce your environmental impact… there is nothing better ECORRCRATE.

Tradeshows

ECORRCRATES® are an ideal trade show shipper. Lightweight and easy to maneuver on the trade show floor, unpacking is a breeze. They collapse for storage until needed for re-packing. Also, ECORRCRATES are easy to assemble for re-pack at the conclusion of the show when you are tired, worn out, and low on energy.

ECORRCRATE shippers are easily designed with multiple inside shelves, trays and compartments to better manage your variety of display items, promotional products, equipment and sample materials.

Most of the products listed in these industry categories are displayed, by your company, at trade shows all over the world. From dry and dusty climates to cold and wet conditions, your product is constantly at risk of damage from the elements. ECORRCRATES better insulates and protects your valuable materials than a traditional wood shipping crate. Nothing worse than having dust and dirt or rain and wet conditions permeate your container and ruin your promotional materials.

For some, there is no need to ship anything back after the show. ECORRCRATES are easily recycled in the corrugated compactor available at most event venues.

Contact Colony Packaging & Machine for more information about ECORRCRATES shipping crate solution.