Since its inception, Packsize has sought to break preconceived notions about packaging providers. At Modex 2020 this week, the Utah-based company is focusing on three packaging concepts that some may involve a bit “out of the box” thinking. These include:
- Packaging-as-a-service. Packsize has a full range of fully automated and semi-automated equipment that can create on-demand corrugated boxes at the specific dimensions required by for a company’s product(s). But instead of paying fort the equipment, the company follows a leasing model where customers pay for the machinery on a per use basis. “We own the equipment, the user buys the consumables,” explains Brian Reed, global vice president of product management.
- Packaging flow. Packsize sees itself not as an equipment provider but as a consultative business. Instead of just focusing on cutting and creating the box, Packsize looks at its clients entire packaging flow and how they could help the customer improve the whole process, according to Reed.
- Right sizing. Having the right size box for your product is important not only from both a sustainability perspective and a customer experience perspective. However, some solutions that claim they provide right size boxes still produce waste. For example, Reed says that taking a premade box and cutting down the height is not a good example of right sizing. It still produces wasted corrugated and the width and length of the box end up not being the optimal size.
