Chennai packs for a ship more than for a truck, and a container is a harsher place than any road. Heat, humidity and weeks of motion do things to a pack that a day on the highway never will.
Chennai's manufacturing spans vehicle assembly and components, electronics and mobile manufacture, leather and footwear, engineering and chemicals, across Ambattur, Sriperumbudur, Oragadam, Maraimalai Nagar, Gummidipoondi and the belt towards Ranipet.
PackForge Industries supplies from our works at Faridabad. This page is about export packing from a port city — the container, the climate, and what fails inside both.
A container is hot, humid, and in constant motion for weeks. Three things follow, and all three are avoidable:
For a sea journey the two do different jobs and neither replaces the other.
Strap holds a stack square while it is rigid. Film holds it together as it softens and settles, and keeps moisture off the outside faces.
Where a load must hold for weeks, using both is not belt and braces — it is the specification. Where a buyer bans strapping across a printed face, film with corner board carries the load instead.
Set the film force against your own cartons rather than at a default. Too much crushes a softened carton; too little lets the stack walk.
Not everything leaves by sea. Component supply into the assembly plants around Oragadam and Sriperumbudur is a line-side problem, and it is judged on how the pack opens rather than on how it survives.
Bins that can be reached into, stack heights that need no step, wraps that come off in one movement — none of it appears on a datasheet and all of it appears in a customer complaint.
Where kitting is involved, the packing has to preserve the set. A kit that arrives complete but unidentifiable costs the receiving plant the same as a short one.
Shipping marks are read by people who will never contact you to ask a question. Whatever is unclear will be guessed at.
Mark on two faces, in the position the buyer specified, with symbols rather than sentences. Number cartons within the consignment so a short-landed box can be named.
Labels applied over film come off with the film. Apply the label to the carton, then wrap over it, wherever the mark has to survive.
Where a pack must not be laid flat, mark it and design for it being laid flat anyway.
Keep a photograph of the marked carton with the shipping documents. When a buyer queries a mark months later, a photograph settles it and a description does not.
Chennai and the Ranipet corridor behind it hold a large finished-leather and footwear trade, and leather packs unlike anything else on this page.
It carries a smell that transfers to whatever shares a pallet with it, and film holds that smell in rather than keeping it out. Where leather goods travel with anything else, separate the pallets rather than the cartons.
It also arrives at the packing bench with moisture still in it, and moisture weakens board from the inside. A carton that felt firm when it was packed can be soft by the time it is stacked in a container.
The climate acts on your material before it ever reaches a container.
Board stored in an open shed near the coast is already softer than the specification you bought. Tape adhesive picks up moisture and grabs poorly. Strap left in the sun goes brittle and fails at the weld, which looks like a machine fault and is not.
Store board, tape, film and strap covered and off the floor. It is a shelf and a sheet of plastic, and it removes more complaints than any setting change.
Where cartons are made to order, check the board grade on delivery rather than assuming it. The difference shows up at sea, not at your gate.
It is a long road move, quoted as one, with the machine run-tested and packed for the distance. Prices are ex works with GST and freight shown separately.
Hold the wearing parts locally — at this distance that shelf is the difference between a lost hour and a lost shipping window.
Tell us your peak season with the enquiry. Ordering parts before a season rather than during it is the single most useful thing an export unit can do about distance.
Machines are supplied from our works at Faridabad, Haryana to any address in Chennai. Prices are ex works; GST and freight are quoted separately against your delivery address.
The cartons softened and the strap lost its tension. Use film with the strap so the stack is still held as the board gives.
For a sea journey, usually yes. They do different jobs: the strap holds a rigid stack square, the film holds it together as it softens.
Goods loaded warm into a cooler container, or the reverse. Let goods reach ambient temperature before packing, and use VCI material where metal is involved.
They were applied over the film. Label the carton first, then wrap over it.
Check the strap store before the machine. Polypropylene left in the sun goes brittle and fails at the weld.
Keep the wearing parts on a shelf and order them before your season rather than during it.
Either, but check the board grade on delivery rather than assuming it. Near the coast a carton is already softer than its specification, and the difference shows up at sea rather than at your gate.
Send your carton size, load weight or line speed and we will tell you which machine fits — including the times when the cheaper machine is the right answer.
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