Benefits of Packaging Plastic Food Containers in Cardboard Boxes

It's not a piece of cake at all to help your business reach more target audience and stand out in such a competitive marketplace. However, having a custom cardboard boxes that bears the company name and logo will help boosting your food storage containers wholesale marketing campaign to some extend. Read on to see why.

4 Benefits to Use Custom Cardboard Boxes

1. Protection
Custom corrugated boxes has a solid construction and offers you a worry-free experience during the delivery process of the products. Fragile items are safer when packaging in corrugated boxes.

2. Brand Identity
Custom printed boxes with company logo or slogans can increase visibility for your company without expensive advertising budget. The benefits outweigh the additional investment. Just compare the price of custom printed boxes and a 4-minute TV commercial. It's obvious, isn't it? As branding effects expand, customers will have a more unforgettable impressions and will associate the products with your brand like Amazon, Apple and Coca Cola.

3. Re-Order Information
To gain more repeat customers and potential customers, you can also print product info, company profile, address, official site and QR code on custom print box. Be aware that the more info your customers get, the more likely that will place an order.

4. Environmental-Friendly 
Choosing eco-friendly corrugated boxes that are recyclable can not only protect our planet and give ourselves a healthy environment, but also improve corporate reputation by choosing a green packaging solution.

Though custom corrugated boxes helps a lot on both transporting products but also improving brand awareness, it doesn't means that it's the only option. A great alternative of custom printing boxes is shrink wrap, which is more economic but also works perfectly as a packaging solution. In the next post, we will see which is the best packaging solution for your plastic food containers according to your business strategy.

How to Choose The Right Packaging Boxes for Food Containers

Cardboard boxes and corrugated cardboard boxes are popularly used for packaging and transporting by food container manufacturers.

Types of Boxes Used for Products Packaging

1. To Package Single Items
For single items, no matter it is plastic products, glass products or other products, we load products into corrugated boxes that fits the size.

2. To Package Gift Set or Multiple Pack
For the packaging of multiple pack, take GS033, the 16 pack plastic food containers set for example, we load products into custom color boxes and then corrugated boxes.

Here are some basic knowledge that food container wholesalers need to know on how to choose the correct packaging boxes for your products.

How to Choose Food Containers Packaging Boxes

1. Size
Size of corrugated cardboard boxes should match the products perfectly. The size is critical on two aspects. On the one hand, a fitting corrugated cardboard box can perfectly surrounds the products and protect them from too much impact and damage; On the other hand, oversize cardboard boxes might add freight because the volume has increased.

2. Strength of Boxes
There are various of boxes strength to pack products in different weight, such as single wall, double wall and triple wall box. Our regular packing corrugated boxes are already safe for transporting our glass set to the world, not to mention plastic ones. If you have specific demand on the corrugated boxes, please feel free to let us know.

3. Custom Printing, Color 
If you have your own brand and want to build up brand awareness by adding more info of your brand, you can contact us to customize logo printing and color of the food containers packaging boxes.

For more benefits of using cardboard boxes as the inner boxes for your food storage containers, please check: Benefits why cardboard boxes worth our choice. However, if you are looking for a alternative of cardboard boxes packaging, to package food containers with heat shrink wrap is also a good choice.

Applications of Shrink Wrap in Packaging Industry

What is Shrink Wrap
Heat shrink wrapping is a packaging method that food container manufacturer use to wrap the products in clear or color plastic films And after that, apply heat to shrink the plastic to take the products shape. Shrink films are mainly made from low-density polyethylene film to protect products and holds them strongly together as a sales unit. Some exporters like Easylock also offers shrink wrap as a packaging option.

Shrink Wrap Plastic Food Storage Containers Set

Different Uses of Shrink Wrap
1. Promotion Items in Supermarket
Shrink wrap are commonly used to pack bottled water, coca cola, plastic food containers, trash bags, soap, DVD, and any other supermarket items to gather together bundle products.

Shrink Wrap Supermarket Promotion Items

2. Gift Wrapping
Gift shrink wrapping for toys and fruits with a greeting card inside are also a popular option.Use silk ribbon and tie a bowknot to make it looks better.

Shrink Wrap Gift Set

3. Books and Magazine
It's very important to protect books, magazine or other printing written words from moisture while transport or displaying in book store. Shrink wrap is a perfect option to keep water out.

Shrink Wrap Printing Written Words

4. Large Stuffs and Buildings
Another application of shrink wrap is for large stuffs like boats, export goods and even buildings to prevent damage from explosions and extreme weather events.

Shrink Wrap Large Stuffs and Buildings

Why shrink wrap is so widely applied in different industry for wrapping different stuffs? We will let you know in the upcoming post: Advantage of Packaging Plastic Food Containers with Shrink Wrap.