ORBIS to Showcase Packaging Options Optimized for Lithium-Ion Batteries at The Battery Present
ORBIS® Company, a global chief in reusable packaging, will spotlight reusable packaging options for the electrical car and battery provide chain by showcasing their sturdiness, sustainability and automation advantages at this 12 months’s North American Battery Present. ORBIS gives a wide range of packaging merchandise — together with protecting dunnage, bulk containers, hand-held containers and steel racks — and companies that assist automotive provide chains discover efficiencies, enhance the movement of product, improve sustainability and scale back prices. ORBIS, Sales space 427, is an exhibitor at this 12 months’s present held in-person on the Suburban Assortment Showplace in Novi, Michigan, Sept. 13-15.
The mass adoption of electrical automobiles has introduced on new challenges for OEM’s and their respective provide chains. Lithium-ion batteries have discovered themselves on the forefront of those challenges as a consequence of their excessive worth, complicated rules, and extreme threat they pose throughout a thermal runaway occasion. Battery producers and shippers are beneath extra enforcement scrutiny than ever earlier than, making it crucial to make the most of packaging and transport strategies that aren’t solely compliant with rules, however will even make sure the battery and its surrounding atmosphere is effectively protected throughout transport. Navigating these rules could be a painstaking course of, which is why it’s vital to work with a packaging accomplice that’s licensed and has intensive data of harmful items packaging protocols. Via its presence at The Battery Present, ORBIS will spotlight how reusable packaging may help OEMs just do that whereas additionally attaining sustainability and rising effectivity all through the EV provide chain.
“Packaging and transporting lithium-ion batteries is simply one of many hurdles we’ll face with the proliferation of EVs,” mentioned Shane Felix, EV packaging specialist at ORBIS Company. “Your complete life cycle will likely be scrutinized, not solely by OEMs, but in addition by savvy eco-friendly shoppers. With EVs being a greener different to the standard gas-powered automobile, the provision chain and packaging used inside it must also be extra sustainable. Using reusable packaging is a good way to fulfill the stringent harmful items rules, whereas additionally lowering waste and driving sustainability.”
With sustainability and automation prime of thoughts for at present’s provide chain managers, ORBIS continues to showcase a wide range of sustainable packaging options and packages for the commercial provide chain, together with:
ORBIShield® dunnage
ORBIShield is a line of {custom} dunnage from ORBIS that protects components throughout transit, meeting and storage. Utilizing a wide range of foam, inflexible and material supplies, ORBIShield dunnage is custom-designed to guard distinctive car components. Examples embody divider units, hanging luggage, foam packs and inserts that may be put in into normal totes, bins and racks. Past defending merchandise at each stage of the provision chain, dunnage additionally helps to enhance pack density. The long-term implementation of ORBIShield dunnage will enhance stock management by sustaining constant portions in every container and optimize line-side effectivity by facilitating elimination of dealing with components.
BulkPak® containers
The BulkPak® 65-by-48 collapsible container is right for the storage and transport of lengthy, heavy components. These prolonged size bulk bins have been particularly designed for the prolonged, hard-to-fit components generally discovered within the automotive trade. With weight capacities as much as 2,000 kilos, these reusable plastic bulk containers are outfitted to fulfill the wants of automotive and industrial half transport. Collapsible BulkPak containers, out there in a wide range of footprints from 32-by-30-inch to 78-by-48-inch, present diminished return transportation prices and efficiencies.
StakPak® hand-held containers
StakPak hand-held containers have helped OEMs and tier suppliers scale back prices, drive sustainability and optimize the automotive provide chain for 3 a long time. Appropriate with all kinds of pallets and prime caps, these containers are designed for just-in-time purposes the place the identical containers are used for transport, storage and work-in-process. Clean, straight inside partitions supply most dice utilization and simply interface with {custom} protecting dunnage to scale back half harm. The StakPak Plus™ tote provides numerous collar sizes to extend a container’s top to accommodate unique-shaped components generally discovered within the industrial and automotive provide chains. These containers take all the perfect attributes of the standard StakPak container, together with reusability and value financial savings, and mix them with personalized heights to extend container capability.
Customized steel racks
ORBIS steel options are designed to be extraordinarily sturdy, whereas additionally defending high-cost delicate components all through the automotive provide chain. They are often configured to any required measurement, form, capability or fashion to accommodate the distinctive wants of various OEMs. Integrating steel racks and protecting dunnage gives increased effectivity and helps staff optimize what they bring about to the road. Mix steel racks with thermoformed packaging for a whole answer. ORBIS has the capabilities to {custom} design and fabricate a variety of reusable thermoformed packaging, together with molded dunnage, ESD trays, divider units and extra. Customized thermoformed packaging is right for automotive components, together with the lighting and inside trim components of EVs.
