Acme Develops Single-Wall Material For Accupac’s New Shipping Box Accupac is a Pennsylvania-based contract manufacturer for various national personal care product brands — and an Acme Corrugated Box customer for the better part of 20 years. Several years ago, they tapped Acme to custom design a shipping box central to their daily operations. The box had several unique requirements: It had to feature side-loading capability and dimensions that could accommodate various combinations of Accupac products. Given that it is stacked unconventionally during shipping, the box would also need high crush resistance, or the criti- cal ability to bear a tremendous amount of weight. The Challenge Right out of the gate, this unusually configured box de- signed by Acme’s team satisfied all of Accupac’s shipping and stacking needs. There was just one problem: The box wasn’t compatible with Accupac’s own in-house machin- ery. It routinely got caught in the company’s case erector as it was being packed and sealed.
need for a single-wall box that’s nonetheless sturdy. It is an offshoot of the highly successful POWERWALL 100®, a heavy-duty double-wall box developed a few years pri- or. POWERWALL 60 became popular the moment it was launched; almost every early adopter still uses it today. The Outcome Acme held its collective breath as they kicked off an experimental redesign of Accupac’s shipping box using POWERWALL 60. If this new board grade proved compatible with Accu- pac’s in-house machinery and provided ample stacking strength, it would let their team manufacture the box in one step, as opposed to the time-consuming, costly three- part process they had been employing for several years. When put to the test, Accupac’s shipping box — now made of POWERWALL 60 — satisfied both key needs. For Acme, the benefits were obvious: a better product and more efficient process. For Accupac, POWERWALL 60 offers the same essen- tial characteristics they need and had come to expect, in all-around better box — now available to them much faster than before. “Acme came to us with a solution that would improve our supply chain stability,” said Lindsay Vill, Marketing and Inside Sales Operations Manager at Accupac. “They were able to implement this to better service us and to be sure our customer had product.” Visit www.acmebox.com .
To eliminate this hassle, Acme adopted a three-prong solution. It involved die-cutting, scrap removal (requiring hand labor), and gluing portions of the box that were prob- lematic, ultimately allowing the box to travel freely along Accupac’s packing line. While Acme was willing to do this for their customer on an ongoing basis, it was tedious and time-consuming work, adding cost to their process and taxing their internal teams. The POWERWALL 60 Always on the lookout for ways to improve, an idea hatched right under their roof: Could POWERWALL 60 be the answer to this long- standing challenge? Developed in-house in 2019, the POWERWALL 60 board grade fills the ongoing market
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