Sean Merritt, Author at Packaging insiders

A standard 53 foot trailer holds twenty six standard pallets on the floor in a straight pattern, and rotating some of them can lift…

October 16, 202620 min read

A standard wooden pallet weighs somewhere between fifteen and thirty kilograms when it is empty, which comes to roughly thirty to sixty five pounds.…

October 16, 202621 min read

A pallet is a flat platform that lets a forklift pick up a whole stack of goods in one movement instead of handling each…

September 28, 202622 min read

Most pallets are made from low grade hardwood or softwood, with oak and southern yellow pine covering the largest share of what you will…

September 27, 202620 min read

Food packaging paper is not one material but a whole family of papers, and each member behaves very differently once it meets grease, moisture,…

September 24, 202622 min read

A box is measured in the order length by width by depth, and in packaging those three numbers almost always describe the inside of…

September 22, 202624 min read

There is no single pallet size that works as the global standard. North America primarily uses a 48 by 40 inch platform, much of…

September 17, 202622 min read

A moisture barrier bag is a multi layer flexible pouch built to slow down how fast water vapor moves from the air into your…

September 15, 202621 min read

Dry food packaging looks simple from the outside. You put the product in a bag or a box and seal it. What’s complicated about…

August 7, 20269 min read

You already know packaging needs to change. The harder question is: where do you actually start? There are a hundred articles out there telling…

August 6, 202610 min read