Company: Cox Publications

Packaging Application: Cox Publications, located in Greenville, NC is a commercial printer. After printing, freshly-printed sheets are stored and moved throughout the plant.

Packaging Challenge: Commercially printed signatures use thin, glossy paper that tends to be slick and difficult to stack, making it difficult for operators to square up the loads of pages. Furthermore, the signatures on the pallets would fall over, especially in transit. They were also prone to damage by forklifts in the warehouse or on the docks, resulting in costly re-prints that wasted time, materials and labor. Additionally, the plant was not making any use of their vertical storage.

Packaging Solution: ORBIS helped Cox NC Publications replace all pallets in the Greenville facility with 45” x 48” KDR Containers. They are now able to stage the container loads vertically, increasing available floor space in the plant, and have eliminated the need to stretch wrap and strap pallet loads.

Product:  45” x 48” KDR Containers

Results: By replacing pallets with ORBIS 48" x 45" Medium-Duty BulkPak reusable containers, the handling of commercial printing signatures at Cox NC Publications’ Greenville facility has tremendously improved. It has been estimated that these containers have reduced stress on their operators by 50 percent. By using the containers to ship product between facilities, the company estimates it has saved thousands of dollars in shipping and labor for palletizing, stretch wrapping and banding previously required. “Not only have our pre-shipping and packaging costs decreased dramatically, but also damaged goods have virtually disappeared and our efficiency levels have increased substantially."