CSG Inc. (fka CYSG)

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PALLETS PERFECTED

Imagine that you’re a packaging engineer charged with determining the impact of a product redesign on shipping needs. With Cape Pack from Cape Systems (Dallas), you can specify the shape and starting size of the primary package, how much it can vary in size, and how many you want in an arrangement. The software can then help determine final product sizing, intermediate and bundle packaging, secondary shippers or case sizes, and the resulting pallet pattern, using graphics to display how things fit. Basically, it paints you a pallet picture.

One packaging engineer using Cape Pack was able to make a big cut in transportation costs. “By modifying the primary package and how it was arranged in a case, he was able to design a new case size, which resulted in more cases per container and thus, fewer container loads that needed to be shipped,” says marketing director Heidi Larsen. “He realized a savings of more than 200 containers, which meant a savings of more than $2 million.”

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