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.
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.
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 recylability after use.
Explore our solutions for product packaging that can be designed for e-commerce
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.
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.
Successful and 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
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.
