Skyrocketing Wood Crating Cost Impacting Your Business

Info • July 16, 2018

Has your business felt the impact of increasing prices for pallets, boxes, and crates, often with little or no warning.

There are a number of factors that could be the cause for this, mostly attributable to rising lumber costs and increased competition for labor. In fact, the lumber commodities market from NASDAQ has seen over the past 6 months some drastic volatility. (reference: https://www.nasdaq.com/markets/lumber.aspx?timeframe=6m )

Over this timeframe, our clients have been shifting to alternative custom crating needs that are more environmentally friendly. In fact, our custom laminated paper products are often cleaner, lighter weight options when compared to wood.

Manufactured with the same consistency throughout, our paper-based products eliminate natural inconsistencies that come with wood-like grains, knots and cracks. This assures you are getting a solution that you can depend on to protect your products.

One of the most popular custom crate alternatives is ECORRCRATE. Not only are these incredible boxes cost competitive to wood, but they are just as durable and robust, and much faster to set up than traditional custom wood crates.

If you want to reduce your material costs and experience reduced labor costs, we encourage you to ask for a demo of the ECORRCRATE custom crate solution. We maintain inventory programs for our clients, focused on VMI programs – this allows our client to benefit in storage space savings as well as cash outlay. The benefits of this products are numerous, talk to your account representative to get more information. Plus, they can be purchased in knock down form to save warehouse space.

The price of wood has increased as much as 41% in the past six months, that can have a significant impact to your business expenses. Talk to one of our account representatives about alternatives and help keep your costs under control.

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