Custom Packaging Design & Engineering

When shipping heavy-duty industrial machinery or sensitive electronics, there is zero margin for error. Damage isn't just an inconvenience—it’s a hit to your bottom line and your reputation. If you lack the specialized in-house resources to engineer high-performance, cost-effective protection, Export Corporation is your strategic partner.

For over 75 years, we have mastered the art of tertiary packaging. From custom-engineered crates to specialized bulk containers, we provide rugged, compliant solutions for the most demanding sectors.

ISO 9001:2015 Certified

CMMC Level II Cdertified

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Crates & Boxes

Export Corporation builds ISPM-15 certified crates and boxes that can be reused. We can build crates for items of any shape or size. Because we specialize in military packaging, we also build custom boxes that comply with MIL-STD-1186, MIL-STD-129P, MIL-STD-2073, and more.

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Pallets & Skids

Our team can design cost-effective, durable custom pallets, skids, and bases for single or multiple products. Our pallets have bottom decks, while our skids don’t, ensuring they can be nested if needed.

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Corrugated Solutions

We can build durable, reusable, and lightweight corrugated solutions for expedited applications, situations where the design may change to accommodate new products, or for work-in-progress storage.

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Dunnage & Bags

Most packaging designs require a combination of wooden crates or cardboard boxes, bags, plastic wrap, or other custom dunnage to ensure adequate protection during transportation or storage. We can design tubing and sleeves, as well as moisture-proof, grease-proof, or electrostatic bags.

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Bulk Expendable Packaging

Export Corporation can handle short- or long-term contract packaging for single or bulk shipments. Our bulk expendable packaging solutions are ideal for bank builds and buffer stock, consolidated shipments, seasonal products, and one-way shipments.

Our Process

1. Deep Dive Discovery

Our partnership starts face-to-face. We will travel to your facility (or you may travel to ours) for a hands-on evaluation. We don’t just look at CAD drawings; we get close to the parts to understand geometry and fragility, as well as potential logistical hurdles.

2. Scoping & Engineering

Once we understand the “why” and “how,” our engineering team steps in. We define a precise scope of work and design a solution using our CAD and/or mil-spec expertise to balance protection with cost efficiency.

3. Proposal & Pricing

You receive a transparent proposal. Because our management team is lean, we make decisions fast and provide the responsiveness modern manufacturing needs.

4. Prototype or Production

Speed is our specialty. Depending on your needs, we can move straight to production or develop a physical prototype before the full run begins.

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FAQs

We work with all types of materials, including plastic, wood, metal, and cardboard.

If you don’t need a custom design, we can work with existing packaging.

No. We can handle both low-volume and high-volume orders.

Yes. We use a FMEA (Failure Mode & Effects Analysis) approach for all designs, identifying potential failures and running simulation tests before building the packaging. Once the packaging is built, we perform thorough quality tests for stress, impact, and environmental resistance.

Yes. If you have CAD data, we can use it to verify different packaging options before implementation.

Beyond packaging design, Export Corporation can:

  • Build tables and fixtures for temporary production line trials
  • Offer warehousing storage
  • Manage inventory
  • Kit and assemble items
  • Offer functional repackaging
  • Develop supply chain programs

Yes. If you prefer to pack on your own lines, we can build custom packaging solutions and ship them directly to your facility, ready for immediate use.

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Your Turnkey Packaging Partner

Send us details about a packaging project you need, and a member of our expert team will be in touch.