Understanding IBC’s Part 4 – The Filling Process
This article is part of a series of “Understanding IBC’s” Guides, and you can read Parts 1,2 and 3 on our Case Studies and Guides section of the website. General Filling Considerations IBCs are widely used as a key logistical tool for the storage and transportation of liquids and semi-liquids due to their robust nature, […]
Understanding IBCs Part 3: Ventilation Systems and Discharge Valves
Following our previous guides on IBC components and inner bottles, this third instalment explores two critical features that ensure safe storage and handling of liquids in Intermediate Bulk Containers: ventilation systems and discharge valves.
Understanding IBC’s Part 2 – Inner Bottles and Screw Caps
Continuing our educational series on Intermediate Bulk Containers – we discuss venting, UV protection, and what each cap colour means.
Understanding IBC Components and Labelling: Your Essential Guide
As Ireland’s Official Distributor of New Schütz IBCs, we’ve put together this guide to help you get familiar with the basics.
Wastepac Drums for Waste Management Costs
Companies that have relied on steel drums for hazardous waste disposal are starting to ask harder questions about their total costs. The answer often leads them to fibre drums.
Preventing Cardboard Core Crush
If you’re experiencing core crush issues or want to prevent them before they start, get in touch. We’ll ensure your cores are up to the job.
Choose V-Mark Fibre Drums for Lab Waste Management
Choosing V-marked Fibre drums offers significant benefits, both from an operational cost and environmental perspective.
Tubes – More Interesting Than You Thought
Industrial Packaging’s cardboard tubes could be considerd mundane! Why? Because they do exactly what they’re supposed to do, without any fuss.
Fibre Drums For Sustainable Storage
We’ve compiled this comprehensive guide to help you understand what fibre drums are and how they might benefit your business.
Radial Crush Testing with Ibrahim Darwish
Ibrahim sat down with us for a Q&A about our radial crush testing procedures, crucial in meeting the highest product standards.
Flammable Liquids and IBCs
When it comes to distilling, there’s a critical operational aspect that often flies under the radar: the safe transport of alcoholic beverages.
The Flat Crush Test
The Flat Crush Test – an important testing system we use to assess the strength and structural integrity of cardboard and other corrugated materials.
Climate Change Considerations for all ISO Management System Standards
The Climate Action Amendments demand the consideration of climate change within their management systems. Industrial Packaging are prepared.
GUIDE: How to choose the right dangerous goods container
The transport of dangerous goods is controlled and they must have appropriate, UN-certified packaging. There are nine classes of dangerous goods and many different packaging options. Follow our guide to choose the right one.
GUIDE: How to pack a UN certified box
Unlike on Santa’s production line, you have to follow certain box-packing procedures for the UN certification of UN-certified cardboard boxes to be valid. Here we explain exactly how to do it.
PRODUCT: Move over plastic buckets – here come tin pails
Our wide range of tinplate pails are more attractive and more suited to flammable products than plastic pails, and much more cost-effective than stainless steel or aluminium.
PRODUCT: Innovative new rectangular drum with sliding lid
Meet our new packaging solution which delivers the efficiency of square drums AND the ease of use and security of round drums, in a whole new way: rectangular drums with a sliding lid closure.
PRODUCT: Post with personality
We can make cardboard tubes in the dimensions that best suit your product, but they are also a blank canvas that you can customise yourself, to extend the personality of your products into their packaging.
PRODUCT: Industrial Packaging wins exclusive distribution of world-leading IBCs in Ireland
We are delighted to have signed a distribution agreement with GREIF – one of the most highly respected container manufacturers in the world. GREIF is an established and successful manufacturer, with plants in 43 countries and excellent sustainability credentials.
CASE STUDY: Musseling into the netting business
Mussel netting is used in mussel farms to help young mussels stay on the mussel lines before they are strong enough to hold on themselves, and during rough sea conditions. Blackshell mussel netting factory in Westport has started using cardboard cores to package their netting for export rather than plastic bags, to reduce transport costs and be more environmentally friendly.
GUIDE: Don’t be afraid of change control!
The change control process is often seen as a major obstacle to changing from one form of packaging to another. But it doesn’t have to be lengthy and painful – and Industrial Packaging can help.
CASE STUDY: Building the future with column forms
Industrial Packaging’s cardboard form-a-round forms, which can be custom made to create concrete pillars of more-or-less any dimensions, are currently being used in various different infrastructure construction projects around Ireland.
CASE STUDY: Postal tubes introduce us to new industries
We are proud to be a supplier of robust postal packaging, in the form of our sustainable cardboard tubes. With the recent explosion of online retail, we have seen lots of new types of products being dispatched via post and other parcel delivery services in our postal tubes; made in Ireland.
PRODUCT: Packaging to prevent tablet crush
Tablet and capsule crush in transit is a major cause of waste and machine downtime in the pharmaceutical industry. Our composite packaging solution of lining our drums with custom-engineered foam protection can significantly reduce these problems.
CASE STUDY: Packaging hand sanitiser
Not all companies who have turned their hands to supplying hand sanitiser in the current environment have experience of working with bulk quantities of flammable product; some are unfamiliar with the specific packaging and transport rules and requirements. Because we do have this experience, and have two certified Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors within our sales team, we have advice and packaging solutions to offer.
PRODUCT: Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors
Industrial Packaging has certified Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors available to discuss your hazardous products and advise on up-to-date, EU-compliant solutions for their storage and transport.
The role of packaging in explosion prevention
Specialised dangerous goods packaging can help prevent industrial explosions. Industrial Packaging supplies several types, suitable for different product types and volumes. These may be fibre drums, plastic drums, or larger industrial bulk containers (IBCs).
Case Study: Parker Hannifin Hydraulic Hoses
Read about how we worked with our client Parker Hannifin to develop 8-metre-long, robust cardboard tube packaging, to protect their high value hydraulic hoses.


























