Case Studies & Guides

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.