Industrial packing and crating are central tasks at many businesses. Dealing with packing and crating tasks in-house might seem like a more cost-effective solution. However, mistakes can easily wipe out the savings from DIY work or even make the process more expensive. Working with a third-party services provider can help you avoid the following four problems.

Insufficient Protection

The entire point of industrial packing and crating is to mitigate the risk of damage during shipment as much as possible. Insufficient protection is always a bad idea for shipping anything, but the potential costs run into the thousands or even millions of dollars when moving industrial items. Worse, an insurance carrier might take exception to poor-quality packing and crating. That could mean an outright denial of a claim or at least a reduced payment.

Companies shipping to customers could endanger future business. Even if you're shipping components to your firm's branches, you may face missed deadlines, failed projects, and the loss of confidence.

Regulations

Especially if you're shipping industrial components or systems through customs checkpoints, you risk hitting a regulatory wall. At best, this can delay a shipment. At worst, it could lead to legal battles and angry customers or stakeholders.

Many jurisdictions have rules regarding the use of certain wood products for packing and crating, for example. Countries do this to keep invasive insects and other critters from sneaking aboard shipments and then getting loose within their borders. If you use the wrong materials to pack and crate something, you may pay to bring it back.

Inefficiency

Many industrial components are heavy, and every bit of shipping inefficiency is inherently costly. You don't want to pay to ship any more air than necessary. Likewise, whenever you can pack and crate multiple items into a single shipment, that can save significant money compared to shipping them separately. An industrial packing and crating company will know how to condense every shipment into the tightest and most efficient configuration possible. They can also do this without neglecting the physical protection of goods.

No Tracking

People expect tracking in the modern world, but accurately tracking shipments requires extensive integration of your systems with those of the shippers. If you don't have the tech infrastructure to support nearly real-time tracking, customers and stakeholders will intensely dislike that fact. An industrial packing and crating company can plug your shipments into their systems to provide up-to-date tracking.

For more information on packing and crating, contact a company near you.