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E-Commerce Packaging

Diverse materials for e-commerce packaging at every step of the journey

As e-commerce becomes common practice, packaging solutions need to adjust for the complex and demanding conditions of the journey. Innovative e-commerce packaging is designed to withstand shipment, protect products and offer sustainability benefits.  At Dow, we offer materials to support e-commerce packaging that can be designed to thrive at every step of the journey, including what happens to the packaging after it reaches the customers doorstep. 

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Protective packaging

The order has been placed, it’s time to get your product to the customer. Protective e-commerce packaging helps ensure it gets where it’s supposed to go, exactly the way it was intended to arrive. Our materials for protective e-commerce packaging support structures that use less material, offer enhanced protection, and can be designed for recyclability after use.   

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Void Fills and Inflatables

Cushioning and wrapping with the ability to downgauge and incorporate recycled content.

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Mailers

All-in-one option when a box is more than you need.

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Surface Protection Films

Low gels, high melt strength and no additives materials for surface perfections.

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Protective Foams

Better processability and excellent flexibility for your various needs in foams.

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E-commerce packaging starts with how you package your product

Is it designed to withstand the journey? Can it make it across the country, or even across the globe? Product packaging can be designed for e-commerce, from size, shape and weight to durability and protection. Optimal product packaging should protect your product from the many unexpected bumps along the way and do so in an efficient and sustainable way. Dow materials support lightweight packaging structures that offer strong protection and durability and can be designed for recyclability after use. 

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Extrusion coating and lamination

Total package solutions for extrusion coating and lamination. 

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Food Packaging

Get fresh food to the front door while minimizing unnecessary food waste.

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Medical and Pharmaceutical Packaging

Choose dependable packaging solutions when safe and timely delivery is critical.

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Rigid Packaging

Flexible and lightweight, two unexpected features that help rigid packaging be e-commerce ready.

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Caps and Closures

Keep the good stuff in and the unwanted stuff out with secure and reliable closures.

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Secondary and tertiary

You have worked to design an incredible product and now you must send it on its journey. If it’s making a stop at a distribution center or warehouse, secondary and tertiary packaging helps get it there safely. Far too often the demanding and unexpected conditions of the journey can lead to unnecessary product waste. Load stability and a secured pallet help ensure a safe journey with minimal waste. 

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Stretch Hood

Five-sided protection featuring weather resistance, stability and holding force.

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Stretch Wrap

Tailored to your needs—From medium to high-stretch or hand to machine wrap.

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Labels

Efficient and timely delivery depends on labels that stay in place, even under extreme conditions. 

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Hot Melt Manufacturing

Optimum chemistry for adhesive manufacturing so packages stay sealed.

PCR resins

Sustainability solutions for e-commerce packaging

Post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins are rapidly growing in use across the plastics industry. Dow’s REVOLOOP™ Recycled Plastics Resins is helping to incorporate PCR resins into films for use in a variety of applications – especially in the e-commerce packaging marketplace. 

Tested performance for e-commerce packaging

Pack Studios offers the unique opportunity to put materials and packaging through rigorous testing for pressure, puncture, impact and vibration performance. From the durability of an individual package to pallet loading and wrapping techniques, we help to assure a safe journey. 

Our Pack Studios locations offer a wide range of capabilities, including those listed below and more.

  • Blown and cast film fabrication for testing primary, secondary and tertiary e-commerce packaging films
  • Rigid packaging fabrication for testing blow-molded and durable goods
  • Virtual CAD development testing
  • Real-world pallet-scale physical testing based on ISTA 3E testing standards

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Pack Studios transportation lab

The Transportation Lab offers new insights on the safe transportation of packaged goods, as well as helping to develop better products for high-performance films for the shipping industry.

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Total pallet solutions

A circular journey of the total pellet from the resins to recycling.

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