Sustainable Packaging Part 2: Right-Size Packaging
Right-size packaging minimizes waste by tailoring each package to its contents, reducing costs, DIM weight charges, and environmental impact. Sustainability
Improve your order fulfillment with Tension’s fitPACK500™, a right-sized packaging system designed for cost savings through design efficiencies. Tailored for variable-sized items, it adjusts package length, width, and height, creating smaller, custom-fit packages that reduce waste and lower shipping costs. Take a virtual tour of the fitPACK500™ and see why it’s the perfect solution for your fulfillment operations.
With capabilities to adjust package length, width and height, the fitPACK500™ can create a package according to product dimensions, yielding smaller, right-sized packages that lead to lower shipping costs. Request a tour of fitPACK500™ through our interactive video experience and learn why fitPACK500™ is the perfect fit for your order fulfillment.
fitPACK500™ can create 10-20 packages per minute with proprietary technology that allows for the package to be created, deflated, and labeled in one seamless process.
fitPACK500™’s advanced 3D scanning technology and intelligent design allow it to handle a wide variety of product sizes without manual adjustments and requires minimal film changeover time. This flexibility reduces the need for multiple machines or standardized package sizes, making it ideal for businesses with dynamic product mixes.
By creating a custom right-sized package for every product, fitPACK500™ minimizes the impact of DIM weight fees and oversized packaging surcharges. The result? Dramatic savings in shipping costs over time as more packages fit within lower cost carrier thresholds.
Productivity
fitPACK500™ was custom designed to create a right-sized package without compromising throughput with its low changeover times and creation of tight packages that protect against downtime inducing “no read” shipping label scans.
Intuitive HMI
fitPACK500™ is powered by Tension’s proprietary TensionConnect software that integrates any 3rd party systems. Its smart features include an intuitive user interface designed to reduce operator training time.
Lower Shipping Costs
Because many carriers assign shipping costs according to the package size, having the right-size package helps get the right shipping rate and can lead to significant savings on shipping costs over time.
Product Protection
Packages are custom made to fit each individual product or product grouping, creating secure, tight packages to better protect the contents inside.
Right-size packaging minimizes waste by tailoring each package to its contents, reducing costs, DIM weight charges, and environmental impact. Sustainability
Tension’s polybags with recycled content offer a sustainable packaging solution that combines product protection, custom branding, and eco-friendly compliance, helping
Incorporating sustainability into packaging operations can be achieved through the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” approach: reduce waste with right-sized packaging, design