How To Choose The Right Packaging To Protect Your Products

In This Episode... Renaud Anjoran, Sofeast's CEO, joins Adrian from the team to discuss packaging! We take a close look at how packaging has a serious effect on your products' chances of arriving with you in one piece from wherever they've been manufactured. Packaging materials, supply chain risks, and packaging reliability testing are all scrutinized to give you a good introduction to this topic and help you choose the right packaging for your needs. You'll see why considering packaging and developing the right inner and outer packaging for your needs should be done during the product development process and should neither be left until the last minute nor to your supplier to handle.   Show Notes 00:00 - Introduction & how COVID-19 is affecting logistics, especially in China in Summer 2021  02:25 - What is packaging's role in the protection of products?  04:37 - The role of pallets and crates  06:59 - What's 'the rule' when you're thinking of packaging for protecting products?  10:39 - Why deciding on the packaging should be an important part of the NPI process 14:04 - Examples of different kinds of products that have varying protection needs from their packaging  17:20 - What elements are critical to choosing the right packaging?  20:16 - Outlining which packaging reliability tests are done to replicate real-world conditions  24:30 - Renaud's key takeaways about selecting the right packaging for the job  27:18 - Wrapping up    Related content... Sofeast | Importer's Guide To 9 Types Of Packaging Why packaging is important for product protection and differentiation Packaging: How to Protect your Shipment Effectively? How to test the protection of your products during transport Sofeast's in-house testing lab, equipment, and tests Get in touch with us Connect with us on LinkedIn Send us a tweet @sofeast Prefer Facebook? Check us out on FB Contact us via Sofeast's contact page Subscribe to our YouTube channel   Subscribe to the podcast  There are more episodes to come, so remember to subscribe! You can do so in your favorite podcast apps here: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts TuneIn Deezer iHeartRADIO PlayerFM Listen Notes Podcast Addict