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Author: Rebecca Stevenson

  • KB & Sedex, Making a Difference to Business

    KB & Sedex, Making a Difference to Business

    With consumers actively sourcing brands to work with, that they can be sure provide social, sustainable, and environmentally safe conditions of work and within production. We want you to be reassured and ensure we source materials ethically and sustainably, we have subscribed to Sedex, a world leading organisation dedicated to improving the ethical and responsible practices globally within supply chains, in over 180 countries and over 16 years’ experience, this gives us and yourself the confidence that, where and how we source products and services is safe and protects from the start of the process up to when it reaches you.

    This subscription means we have the right tools and information to only work with brands and businesses who are working towards and share the same standards as us at KB Packaging, and you, our customer.

    How we work with suppliers and to address and improve risks within the supply chain.

    We look at these key areas and ensure the highest standards are met:

    • Labour standards (living wage, working conditions)
    • Health and safety
    • Environment
    • Business ethics (no child or slave labour)

    The businesses we work with must provide evidence to us that they are meeting the high standard requirements to work with us, and this is done through extensive audits which are publicised through the Sedex database, making them visible. The platform allows us to see where business/suppliers are compliant, when they aren’t, where improvements need to be made and when these need to be resolved by and are completed.

    Sedex allows us to analyse potential business relationships to see if they are a good match and monitor the existing ones we have.

     

     

     

    Making a global difference

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  • How To Wrap A Pallet, A Nano Wrap Study

    How To Wrap A Pallet, A Nano Wrap Study

    About the client:

    Our client is an expert in providing extra value to supply chains, they cover; warehousing, freight forwarding, customs brokerage and export packing. As is the same with many businesses in the current economy and climate they were looking to reduce their carbon footprint and plastic usage and create more efficiency and cost-effective procedures.

    The businesses services include Airfreight, Sea Freight, Road Freight, Warehousing, Freight Packing, Training, Customs Brokerage, and Special Projects.

    They wanted to get the perfect balance between being more sustainable and eco friendly, keeping costs low and maintaining if not enhancing the efficiency of their production processes.

     

    ”Did you know carbon footprint of plastic is approx 6kg CO2 per KG of plastic

    The solution to wrap up the issue

    As with all our packaging requirement and improvement reviews our Representatives gather the information before hand to identify potential products that can improve specific areas, procedures and help to reach ambitions and goals.

    For this client our Nano pallet wrap seemed to tick all the right boxes.

    Nano film is a multi-layer film that is thin but very strong. Power pre-stretch pallet wrappers are used to apply the film, and this is because the film is so high performing. By using Nano film your cost to wrap each pallet is significantly less as is the amount of film used, which in turn also reduces your plastic waste and carbon footprint, achieved while having no negative impact on the pallet stability and even securing it better.

    The tables show the results from the trial

     

    MPW12IF 10 clear machine film provides an excellent saving in terms of weight of film used and actual film costs, minimal amendment was required to the machine, just slight adjustment to the tension. As the product as 55-layer Nano Technology, film, it reduces the amount of static generated and gives a high clarity result.

    We saved this business £6,080.00 in cost, 2150KG weight saving and 12,900 CO2 carbon footprint saving.

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  • Enhance Pallet Stability and Productivity

    Enhance Pallet Stability and Productivity

    How could choosing the right machine and wrap change your business?

    A pallet wrap machine is an investment piece of equipment for businesses, some businesses don’t realise they would benefit from its usage.

    Here are somethings to consider, and if your business does this day to day, now is the time to review your operations.

    Work out the numbers

    Wrapping 10-15 pallets per day by hand? It is time to look for alternative methods of wrapping, it would provide a faster process, allow staff to be productive in other areas of the business, helping the business to grow and develop, and lower any health and safety risks for staff, all allowing for an efficient process.

    Again, if you are hand wrapping 10-15 pallets per day, this can increase the amount of material you use, making your cost higher and your waste produced more. Using a pallet wrap machine, set to the correct settings and with the right wrap, for example Nano wrap, can save you up to 60% per pallet.

    There are a number of machines to choose from, we can help you to partner the right film and get the best result possible, that means, be the most cost effective, productive and efficient, and create as little waste as possible. 

     

    Weight & Space

     

    Have you considered the weight of your pallets? Wrapping pallets by hand can affect the sturdiness of the pallet, this can result in damage to the goods in transit, affect the experience of your customer and pose as a health and safety issue. A pallet wrapper tightens the film around the pallet even while still using less, it gives an added strength that can’t be achieved by hand wrapping.

    If you are worried about the space, you have for housing a pallet wrap machine, a site visit and audit can help to find the right machine for your business based on all factors including the space you have available. You will reduce the amount of wrap you use this will allow for more space in your warehouse.

    Installation & Beyond

    Do you have any concerns regarding the cost of installing a machine? In the long term it is far more cost effective for your business, a machine can last up to the region of 15+ years, and we provide servicing for the machine to ensure longevity.

    By assessing the way, you wrap and the film you use you can make savings of up to 60% for your business.

    • Improve business productivity
    • Reduce any damage and returns
    • Reduce your storage
    • Reduce any transport costs
    • Create a better customer experience

    Don’t Just Take Our Word For It…

    Spinny S300 Pallet Wrap Machine ‘’ We purchased the Spinny S300 March 2019, we were looking for a more efficient & cost effective method for our pallet movements. The machine wraps approx 245 pallets a day for our business, it’s very well made and has a yearly service, we have never had any issues since our purchase. We found a program we can adjust to our needs for various pallet sizes, making it easier for our operators to just press play when they need to change any settings. The machines are very efficient and we currently use 15 micron pallet wrap and get a good pallet return from each roll. We would highly recommend this machine model.’’ Stores Supervisor
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  • Pallet Wrapping Made Eco & It Costs Less

    Pallet Wrapping Made Eco & It Costs Less

    How does my business use plastic in a better way?

    We educate on the advantages and disadvantages of both paper and plastic packaging. We will be completely honest whether there is a better product or method, that will be more cost effective, eco friendly and efficient for your business, and if there isn’t we will tell you that to, because we want your business to work in a better way.

    Looking for solutions

     

    With the mindset and environmental targets of businesses, industries and consumers changing in favour of a more sustainable and environmentally friendly product, service, or solution. Many are switching from plastic to paper in a bid to lower their carbon footprint and reduce their environmental impact.

    Do you simply need to alter the way you use plastic and the way you apply your plastic packaging.

    Nano wrap is a cost effective, waste reducing and efficient way for you to wrap your pallets.

    A better product

     

     

    Using Nano wrap massively reduces the waste you create, helping you to achieve a lower environmental impact. It lowers the amount of plastic you use by being ultra-strong and having 400% more stretch, without affecting the stability of your pallets, Nano wrap has a very high tear resistance, the film will not pierce when wrapped around sharp corners of boxes or items on your pallet.

    With those facts now known, be aware that other wrappers on the market will only stretch to 150%-200% and their tear resistance because of this is much lower, resulting in you using more plastic and creating more waste.  The pallet wraps you ae currently using could be making you double your usage, adding to cost and affecting efficiency for your business.

    Enhancing your product and production

     

     

    Are you using the right machinery to apply your pallet wrap? If you know the correct machine to use for your pallet wrap and the mechanical features that work best, you will be on for success when wrapping, if you are wrapping pallets by hand particularly a large amount, it will be worth reviewing whether machine wrap is a more efficient option, it will also preventing you tiring your staff out, so they can be more productive in other areas of the business.

     

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  • Printed Tape & Your Brand

    I bet you have been searching google? Looking for the best tape for your brand, your business, will printed tape even benefit your business, you are searching for the best guidance and advice.
    Stop panicking.

    Here are the reasons why your brand should be stuck to all of your packaging.

    Custom printed tape has huge marketing benefits for your business, it makes your brand visible and shouts about your business from the moment of dispatch. With the increase of ecommerce branding your tape will make you stand out from other packages.

    Do you want to show your customer you care and attention to detail is important to you? Branding your tape does exactly that. Your customer will have confidence of the care taken. Chances are you take it in your products and services to.

    Stick your branded tape to your plain cardboard boxes, it’s a simple efficient way of branding your packaging and it keeps the cost low, but your package will look professional.

    Imagine if your package gets lost in transit? If you tape your box in your branded tape it can be easily identified and put back on the right route to the right recipient. Your customer will also know if their goods have been damaged or tampered with, its pretty hard to hide when you are using printed tape.

    This is also a great opportunity to print any instructions onto your package. A bold message that lets those handling your precious cargo know how best to handle it.

    So, the conclusion is that having bespoke, branded, and printed tape is a great business decision, and has loads of benefits, for protecting and, marketing who you are.

    How do you do it successfully?

    • Keep it simple
    • Make sure you are distinctive
    • Choose the right colours
    • Typography is important

    You are probably ready to bring your ideas to life now, you need a design team that will provide you with the honest service and really show you the full potential your brand can reach via the packaging you use.

    Don’t be stuck down by drab packaging tape, get recognised and pack it with print.

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  • Why You Shouldn’t Be Running Around Your Pallets

    Why You Shouldn’t Be Running Around Your Pallets

     

     

     

    Hand wrapping pallets is still a much seen part of the operational process for many businesses within their distribution chain. Is this because they don’t know a better more efficient way? Because they put off a review due to a busy business day?

    We have a few things we would like to point out about the time your business is spending running around pallets and what they could be doing to better utilise their time… 

    What can a machine do that a person can’t?

    • Containing the load, that is on the pallet is the whole point, you want to protect the products while in transit. Wrapping the pallet by hand does not provide consistency to the pallet’s stability. By using a machine and machine pallet wrap you have more stability are all wrapped the same and to the same standard, and it ensures the integrity of the pallet in transit is maintained… Your pallet will arrive safe and intact.
    • Health and Safety, looking after your employees and their overall wellbeing is one of your main priorities (We hope). When pallets are hand wrapped things like; walking backwards and repeatedly around the pallet can cause dizziness or tripping, bending, and stretching around the pallet causes strain, a badly wrapped pallet can topple over and onto a worker.
    • Waste Reduction, using nano wrap applied via a machine reduces plastic waste by 30% or more, that makes it more cost effective and better for the environment. It is more efficient you save on the time it takes for your pallets to be wrapped when done by hand this means you can distribute more pallets per day.
    • Labour, now you have a pallet wrap machine and the pallet wrap to accompany, your employees can be working on more productive and profitable tasks, to support your new operation process, things like packaging and picking orders, helping to load deliveries and/maintaining stock to ensure every product in the warehouse is where it should be and runs smoothly.

    It is so important you apply your pallet wrap properly, and we are here to help you achieve that.

    That means we will;

    Make sure your pallet wrap secures your product in transit.

    Protects all of your products from any; dirt, moisture or other damage from external factors.

    Reduce risk of injury.

    We promise we can increase your speed and efficiency.

    Guaranteed waste reduction.

    Save your business money.

    Ensure you deliver with a quality service.

     

     

    Forklift truck moving pallets
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  • A New Design For Ecommerce Packaging

    A New Design For Ecommerce Packaging

    An Insight Into Ecommerce

    During the Pandemic there has been a massive increase in the amount of ecommerce packaging used globally, and that is due to, the consumer changing their buying habits, how they acquire the products they need and adapting to how to make purchases within a worldwide lockdown. Which is predominantly now purchases online. 

    Emerging from the Pandemic this isn’t going to change.

    The ecommerce packaging industry is worth around $49.2 billion and by 2025 it is predicted to have a further 15% increase taking it to $98.2 billion.

    That is a lot of packaging and a lot of brands to stand out from, with that in mind, make sure your brand and your packaging is engaging and WOWS your customer.

    What Is Ecommerce Packaging?

    If you are wondering what Ecommerce Packaging is and the purpose of ecommerce packaging, let us explain. It is the packaging businesses encase their products when dispatched from the warehouse to the consumer.

    Ecommerce Packaging delivers the product to the customer safely and securely so everything about this type of packaging needs to be sturdy, durable and distribution friendly.

    Ecommerce Packaging must have other valuable qualities, online businesses use this type of packaging because; it enhances the brands identity and the experience for the customer, it protects the product, and enhance profitability for your business.

    On delivery packaging is the first point of contact and interaction that the customer has with your brand, so its important your packaging is designed correctly to your branding, makes a positive impact and a lasting impression upon delivery.

    Make Your Packaging Work For Your Business

    There are some fundamentals of what decisions you make when choosing the packaging you use, it is important the design of the packaging is unique to your brand and designed to your specifications, to be more profitable and to achieve a successful delivery consider the.

    • Overall weight of the packaging you use, the heavier the packaging and product combined the cost of shipping can see an increase.
    • Are you using the wrong size packaging? This can impact your profit and cost, the quality of protection to your products in transit and/or create unnecessary waste. Don’t ship air or unuse any space.
    • Remember not to use the wrong materials, if the wrong materials are used, they may not reach your customers safely, and if they are damaged you will potentially process more refunds.
    • How you protect your products internally, inside your outer packaging, will also have an impact on cost, if it does not protect your products properly.
    • Customers look at the whole package, sustainable packaging will reduce your impact on the environment, consumers have become environmentally conscious and if the packaging you use has a sustainable background it reduces overall waste production and builds a trusting relationship with your customer.
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  • The 3 R’s, Reduce, Re-use & Recycle

    The 3 R’s, Reduce, Re-use & Recycle

    Reduce

    KB Packaging want you to use less packaging, which we know might surprise you or even shock you, that a packaging company wants YOU the consumer to use less packaging.

    You see the thing is, we are packaging experts and have worked within the packaging industry for over 30 years, that kind of knowledge and experience can help to make substancial changes to the packaging industry, ensure the packaging you use works for your business, and has a lower impact on the environment and understand how to better use the packaging that you need to protect and distribute.

    We want to be honest with you, you may not be using the right size box, the right size bag or even the thinnest plastic.

    By making changes to these packaging fauxpars, you will be making better use of the packaging you use, protecting your products, protecting your brand and reducing your impact on the environment.

    Sometimes, less really is more.

    Re-use

     

     

     

    Plastic, Wood & Metal can usually be re-used a few times, why are we advising you reuse? The reusing of certain materials certainly significantly reduces the amount of waste which ends up in landfill, it also reduces the amount of raw materials used and reduces the amount of fuel used in the production of making new products and transporting them… So reusing greatly will benefit the environment, which is something we all need to be considering, the Plastic Packaging Tax, for example, is influencing the way the industry is thinking and how businesses manage the packaging they use.

    Recycle

    Not a lot of people know or understand the process of recycling, or even how or where to recycle properly. We believe the key to reducing any impact to the environment, is to better educate and lead by example. Most packaging IS recyclable and just needs to merely be separated and sorted, however this, for some businesses, can be timely, and especially to businesses. We can give advice on products like; eco tape that won’t need to be separated from your boxes, it can be disposed of straight into your recycling waste. And we have other solutions that will benefit your businesses efficiency while also enhancing your positive impact on the environment.

    What we want to achieve is for businesses to know which packaging is right for them, the materials that are in the packaging they use, how to manage the packaging they use and how to reduce their impact on the environment, while remaining as efficient if not more efficient.

    Industries and processes are changing quicker than ever before, influenced by government incentives like the Plastic Packaging Tax, sustainability meaning more to the culture of their business, and not only a box to tick, there has been a change in consumer mindset and habit, the importance of a businesses brand message, ethos and how they communicate to the customer or prospect, and the list goes on.

    We are here to support your business in exploring the packaging options available, because we’re KB Packaging, we are the packaging experts.

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