What is packaging? Packaging is a packaging activity that clearly understands the characteristics of the goods as well as the natural conditions it must endure during transportation, ensuring the safety of the goods while still ensuring the safety of the goods. ensure the highest economic efficiency. Packaging is a special type of industrial product used to package and contain goods to protect the value of goods, creating favorable conditions for preservation, transportation, and handling. and product consumption.
Function:
- Preserve and protect the inside of goods.
- Streamline and create convenient conditions for transporting and unloading goods.
- Information, product advertising, facilitating product consumption.
Classify
- According to the use of packaging: inner packaging (including hanging packaging, carry-on packaging, easy-to-open packaging, spray packaging, uniform packaging, gift packaging) and outer packaging.
- According to the number of times the packaging is used: single-use packaging and multi-use packaging.
- According to the compression properties of the packaging: rigid packaging, semi-rigid packaging and soft packaging.
- According to manufacturing materials: wooden packaging, metal packaging, textile packaging, paper packaging, carton, packaging made of artificial and synthetic materials, glass packaging, bamboo packaging.
Requirements for packaging when packing goods
- Suitable for all types of transportation (ship, plane, truck, bulk cargo, container cargo...)
- Suitable size for easy storage, on pallets or in containers.
- Meets the requirements of durability and toughness to withstand collision, pulling, and pushing during storage, loading, unloading, and transportation by sea, air, and road.
- Suitable for changing climate and weather in different areas.
- Ensure product protection features of the packaging to prevent the product from becoming odorous, moldy, or damaged.
- Clearly state the requirements that need to be kept in mind during the loading, transporting, loading and unloading process.... On the packaging.
Packaging of goods (Packaging)
- Unit packaging: this packaging corresponds to the units purchased by the final consumer. Packaging must be suitable for the goods, be used for a long time and have an accompanying barcode for payment.
- Bulking packaging corresponds to units purchased by a retailer or distributor. Goods are often packed into cartons and cartons and then assembled on pallets.
- Group packaging: (group packaging) all packages on the pallet will be tagged with SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code - serial number of goods transported by container) to determine the number of cartons/cartons of the entire shipment, Expiry date and lot number.
- Warehouse packaging: Products are stored on a shelf/rack system. Packaging size must match the size of each location. Oversized product packaging will be placed at the bottom or top of the rack. Packaging warehouses must be opened or closed regularly; Avoid moisture, mold, insects and external pollutants.
- Transport packaging: determined based on the transport route. transportation time, means of loading and unloading, lifting goods, climate and environment of the relevant area. Transport packaging complies with international packaging standards - especially ISO, Technical Committee 122 and WPO (World Packaging Organization).
