A pack that has to survive a container, a port and a customs inspection — and arrive looking like the sample your buyer approved.
Domestic packing has one job — get the goods there intact. Export packing has two, and they pull in different directions.
The first is survival. A container crossing to the Gulf, Europe or America spends weeks at sea, is handled by equipment and people you will never meet, and experiences humidity and temperature swings a domestic truck never sees. The pack has to be genuinely robust.
The second is appearance. Your buyer approved a sample. What arrives has to look like it — same carton, same seal, same presentation. In garments, home furnishings and handicrafts especially, a pack that arrives looking different from the approved sample invites a question that costs more than the freight.
A pack built only for survival is often ugly. A pack built only for appearance often fails. Getting both is the actual specification.
Strap tension crushing soft goods. Blankets, made-ups, garments and handicrafts compress. Tension set for a rigid carton marks and crushes them, and the marks are visible when the buyer opens the carton.
Cartons softening in humidity. Corrugated board loses strength in a humid container. A stack that was stable at your bench is not necessarily stable after three weeks at sea, and stretch wrapping the pallet properly is what holds it.
Pallet loads separating from the base. The commonest container damage. It is a wrap-count setting at the base of the pallet, and it is the setting most often left at the machine default.
Wooden packing without ISPM-15 marking. Most destinations require heat-treated and marked wood. Consignments have been held at destination ports over exactly this, and it is entirely avoidable.
The pack drifting from the approved sample. Tape position moves, shrink changes with a new film, carton print shifts. Individually small; collectively a buyer complaint.
Tension set considerably lower than the default and recorded, because blankets, made-ups and garments mark where a carton would not.
Random sealers for merchant export where the order decides the box, semi-automatic where the export carton is standardised.
Stretch wrapping with pre-stretch and base wrap counts set properly — the setting that stops a load separating at sea.
Where individual presentation matters, with tunnel settings recorded against your specific film.
Strapping machines with tension set for your actual product — considerably lower for soft goods than the default, and recorded so it is not lost.
Carton sealers, semi-automatic where the export carton is standardised and random where the order decides the box, which in merchant export is most of the time.
Stretch wrapping with pre-stretch for container pallet loads, with base wrap counts set properly because that is what stops a load separating at sea.
Shrink packing where individual presentation matters, with tunnel settings recorded against your film.
Handling equipment for loading bays and container stuffing.
And guidance on ISPM-15 requirements for wooden packing, which is a compliance point rather than a machine but catches exporters out regularly.
If your buyer approved a sample, the sample is the specification — and every setting that affects appearance should be recorded against it.
We commission with your actual cartons, film and product, then write down tape position and tension, shrink tunnel temperature and dwell, strap tension and position, and pallet wrap counts. That document is what lets you produce an identical pack in six months, after a film supplier change, or when a new operator takes over.
It also matters commercially in a way exporters underestimate. A repeat buyer who receives a pack that looks exactly like the last one develops confidence in the supplier. One who receives something visibly different starts inspecting more closely, and inspection finds things.
If your buyer approved it, every setting affecting appearance should be recorded against it.
Tape position and tension, tunnel temperature and dwell, strap tension, pallet wrap counts — written down, not remembered.
A compliance point rather than a machine, but one that holds consignments at foreign ports regularly.
A buyer receiving an identical pack each time inspects less. One receiving something different inspects more, and inspection finds things.
New export line? Send the buyer pack specification, the carton sizes and your container loading pattern. We size for the pattern and commission to the specification.
Damage reported at destination? Ask for photographs of how it arrived. Crushed soft goods point to strap tension; separated pallet loads point to base wrap count; collapsed cartons point to humidity and stacking. All three are settings rather than machines.
Unsure about ISPM-15? Tell us your destinations and whether you use wooden packing. It is a short conversation and it prevents a long problem at a foreign port.
These area pages cover what plants in each belt actually despatch, and which of these machines suits it. If you are in one of them, that page is a more direct answer.
Udyog ViharPanipat textilesOkhlaPan-India supplyConsiderably lower than a rigid carton. Blankets, made-ups and garments compress, and tension set for a carton marks and crushes them — marks the buyer sees when the carton is opened. We set it for your actual product and record it.
Base wrap count, almost always. It is the setting most often left at the machine default, and it is the commonest cause of container damage on palletised export loads.
If you use wooden packing and ship to most destinations, yes — heat-treated and marked. Consignments have been held at destination ports over exactly this. Tell us your destinations and we can guide you on what applies.
Usually a film supplier change, a tape position drift or a shrink setting nobody recorded. Individually small, collectively a complaint. Recording every appearance-affecting setting against the approved sample prevents it.
Partly. Corrugated board loses strength in a humid container, so a stack stable at your bench may not be stable after three weeks at sea. Proper pallet stretch wrapping is what holds it together.
Random, usually. In merchant export the order decides the carton, so sizes change constantly and a semi-automatic machine spends the day being reset.
A repeat buyer receiving a pack identical to the last one develops confidence. One receiving something visibly different starts inspecting more closely — and inspection finds things.
Send a photograph of the nameplate, a tag list, or simply tell us the duty. Our engineer will size it and quote it.
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