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.
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.
Void Fills and Inflatables
Cushioning and wrapping with the ability to downgauge and incorporate recycled content.
Mailers
All-in-one option when a box is more than you need.
Surface Protection Films
Low gels, high melt strength and no additives materials for surface perfections.
Protective Foams
Better processability and excellent flexibility for your various needs in foams.
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.
Food Packaging
Get fresh food to the front door while minimizing unnecessary food waste.
Medical and Pharmaceutical Packaging
Choose dependable packaging solutions when safe and timely delivery is critical.
Rigid Packaging
Flexible and lightweight, two unexpected features that help rigid packaging be e-commerce ready.
Caps and Closures
Keep the good stuff in and the unwanted stuff out with secure and reliable closures.
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.
Stretch Hood
Five-sided protection featuring weather resistance, stability and holding force.
Stretch Wrap
Tailored to your needs—From medium to high-stretch or hand to machine wrap.
Labels
Efficient and timely delivery depends on labels that stay in place, even under extreme conditions.
Hot Melt Manufacturing
Optimum chemistry for adhesive manufacturing so packages stay sealed.
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.
Total pallet solutions
A circular journey of the total pellet from the resins to recycling.
Get to know the capabilities offered in our transportation lab at Pack Studios Freeport.
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