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CDC Packaging Corporation
Professional Contract Packaging Services
For North American Industry
Step-by-Step: Bob Cook Describes CDC's Packaging Service Process
At CDC Packaging, we meet personally with all of our customers. Bob Cook, President of CDC Packaging, will personally meet with you to determine your specific contract packaging needs.
Depending upon our customer's specific needs, here's the process that CDC uses to ensure the customer's packaging requirements are met -- and exceeded!
Step One: Once we have received an inquiry from a customer, we go to their facility and meet with them. Some of the things we discuss are:
- What is the weight of the product being shipped?
- Where is it shipping? Different countries have different regulations, restrictions and limitations on export packaging.
- How is it shipping? Truck, Plane, Train, Ship, Camel? Don't laugh! Some countries have little or no material handling equipment such as forklifts. Some have poor roads, which means the parts will see a rough ride.
- How fragile is the part? Will it be damaged if it drops 6 inches or 12 inches? How about vibration, will screws come loose from the vibration of a Plane or Truck?
- If the machine or destination requires special handling or equipment, we will request a meeting with the trucking company, rigging company and freight forwarder to make sure we are all on the same page.
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Step Two: We review mechanical drawings of the parts being shipped, look at the actual parts and take measurements.
Step Three: Develop a design to best package the product based on facts determined in step 1 and 2.
Step Four: Determine cost and provide the customer with a written quotation.
Step Five: Once the purchase order has been received from the customer, the drawings are given to our shop.
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Step Six: Special materials are ordered such as barrier bagging material, desiccant and shipping brackets. We also manufacture custom shipping brackets.
Step Seven: Wood shipping crates are manufactured and prepared for shipment.
Step Eight: The entire "Packaging Kit" is shipped to our customer. The Kit includes all materials needed to protectively package a machine, such as wood skids, crates, shipping brackets, plastic wrap, bubble wrap, labels, etc.
Step Nine: We coordinate the equipment packaging process with all involved, if requested. Customer, field service, shipping, rigging and trucking companies.
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Step Ten: We send our crew in to package the product. They will follow some or all of the following steps.
- Disassemble the machine.
- Clean all parts and assemblies.
- Wrap everything in plastic and bubble wrap.
- Carefully package small items in consolidation crates.
- Load large components onto custom made wooden shipping skids. We provide licensed fork lift operators to perform this function using either the customer's fork lift or a rented one.
- When needed we vacuum seal all components in foil bagging with desiccant.
- Enclose all parts and components in custom-made wood crates.
- Label all shipping crates with handling instructions and address labels.
- Provide a detailed list of the contents of each shipping crate.
- Assist with export documentation and phytosanitary certification. Note: A phytosanitary (plant health) certificate is an official document issued by an exporting country, which certifies that the phytosanitary status of a shipment meets the phytosanitary regulations of the importing country.
- Load the completed shipping crates onto a truck or into an ocean container.
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Our motto is "Full Packaging Service." You could say, "One call gets it all."
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