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  • 1.  Air freight shipments

    Posted 10-18-2023 10:07 AM

    I'm developing a best practice for our shipping departments on how to prepare a pallet load for an airfreight shipment, and I would welcome any advice or examples of the best practices that are used at your site.



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    Greg Krysiak
    Sr. Package Engineer
    Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Bloomington MN
    (952) 887-3369
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  • 2.  RE: Air freight shipments

    Posted 10-19-2023 05:44 PM

    Hi Greg,

    Fed Ex has a great resource available for review @ https://www.fedex.com/content/dam/fedex/us-united-states/services/FreightPackagingGuidelines.pdf .

    Cheers,

    Ken Neuburg - CPP
    Packaging Engineering

    ken.neuburg@hpe.com

    +1 608 421 6797 Office

    +1 715 726 7389 Fax

    1168 Technology Way

    Chippewa Falls, WI  54729-4511

    hpe.com



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    Ken Neuburg CPP
    Packaging Engineer
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Chippewa Falls WI
    (608) 421-6797
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  • 3.  RE: Air freight shipments

    Posted 10-19-2023 06:57 PM

    Hi Greg,

    Airfreight services have their own limitations in size (LXWXH) and weight, is important to verify first these specifications with the airfreight carrier you selected for the load transportation, prior to develop the work instructions for the pallet load preparation. The other important factor is the type of product you will ship out and their environmental constrains. I have used a triple wall corrugated gaylord to move product overseas and we added an insulation foam board to protect the product from extreme temperatures, shrink wrap around the gaylord to protect against moisture agents during transit, in the first shipments we placed temperature data recorders to get data from the temperatures the load experienced during the transportation process, which temperature data will help to make an assessment of the packaging configuration we used for them. Pallets should be properly labeled and identified with special instructions for handling.  

    I hope this helps.

    Alex.



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    Manuel Martinez
    Packaging Engineer
    Cordis
    El Paso TX
    (915) 920-1991
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  • 4.  RE: Air freight shipments

    Posted 11-27-2023 09:16 PM

    Hi Greg,

    There are some things you can do with your corrugated boxes I might be able to help you with. Does "light-weighting" your boxes interest you? If so, may give you a call at the number above.  We can help you if your mix is right, on boxes from 44C up to 155AAC and beyond.  If you're shipping any heavy equipment in crates we are replacing wooden crates with our water-resistant coated triplewall. Lastly, our first trial runs of doublewall and AAC triplewall are showing promise of getting up 240ECT and possible 260ECT. Hope to talk to you soon, Kurt



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    Kurt Wiesemes
    Covert MI
    (269) 782-5489
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