• Reduce labor and improve ergonomics
• Increase throughput
• Produce more attractive packages
• Improve tamper evidence

Eco Friendly Benefits of Packaging Automation

First and foremost, packaging automation will reduce the amount of packaging you use to produce each shipping unit. When box sealing tapes and stretch film are applied manually, they are almost always overused. Shipping and receiving personnel regard tapes and stretch films as flimsy because they are so thin, and therefore use two or three strips of tape when one will do, and eight wraps of stretch film when four will do. With regard to stretch film, equipment can stretch film up to 300%, whereas applied manually, stretch percentages average from 25-40%.

Second, packaging automation opens the door for new, eco friendly shipping package designs. For instance, if you are shipping bottled water in a corrugated box, you are using a lot of corrugated board, and an especially heavy construction as well. Through automation, you can replace that corrugated box with a lighter weight corrugated tray and a shrink film over wrap.

Injecting less material into the waste or recycling stream is very important in the world of secondary packaging. Millions upon millions of pounds of paper and plastic materials must be used to safely transport merchandise, but with a little effort, those pounds can be reduced by a large order of magnitude.

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These days, it is increasingly difficult to sell products solely on the basis of their “greenness”, particularly if the green product in question is more expensive than the non-green alternative.

And even when your green product is less expensive, that may not close the sale. Customers are looking for total value. There is simply too much bottom-line pressure in our recessionary market for customers to think otherwise. Are you communicating the total value of your eco friendly product to your prospect? For example, does your product …

• Increase throughput
• Reduce shipping expense
• Enhance product appearance or marketability
• Save labor
• Improve ergonomics
• Enhance safety/reduce injuries
• Strengthen the brand
• Solve an operational, logistical, or financial problem

In what ways does your green product benefit the prospect? Convey those benefits to the prospect first. This will get the prospect thinking seriously. Then, use your product’s eco friendly characteristics to inspire the prospect to take action.
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