Real-Life Example
Ordering goods from an e-shop always brings additional value in the form of experiences with the practical use of packaging materials and fillers. The personal experience of the end customer and their perspective are also very important. For example, cleaning up the mess after unpacking a shipment with cardboard shredding (cut cardboard) or sweeping up scattered foam pellets has been encountered by many customers.
Test Shipment
A package containing cosmetics and small items for a child arrived packed in a height-adjustable box. This box has grooves in one direction for easy formatting based on the size of the packaged goods. This reduces the need to purchase a large variety of box sizes and also decreases the amount of necessary filling material. In this case, the filling material was single-layer crumpled paper.
Proposed Solution
The ideal solution is to replace the paper filling with a 4-tube air cushion, which, with its four sections, perfectly fills the empty space and secures the products.
Comparison of Solutions
Paper
Air Cushion 4-Tube
- Length: 2.6 m
- Width: 0.345 m
- Weight: 78 g
- Length: 0.55 m
- Width: 0.4 m
- Weight: 8 g
This practical example clearly shows that the consumption of filling material is approximately 4 times lower when using multi-chamber air cushions! The weight of the material used is even almost 10 times lower!
