Five bags off the internet, one pass Pink poly is the default answer for shipping anything with a circuit board in it. It is cheap, it is pink, and it says antistatic on the box. Cortec’s film plant ordered five pink poly antistatic bags from online sellers and...
A build-ahead is the packaging engineer’s worst assignment. The plant is going to build months or years of product in advance, put it in a warehouse nobody is going to heat or dehumidify, and expect every unit to roll onto the assembly line later without a rust...
Every VCI Pouch Says It Protects 35 Cubic Feet. Very Few Show the Test. If you have ever specified a vapor corrosion inhibitor pouch for a crate, a control cabinet or a sealed tote, you have run into the same problem: every product on the market publishes a cubic-foot...
What actually rusts a part in transit A part does not rust because the air is humid. It rusts because water condenses on it. A carton loaded in a warm plant at the end of a summer day, put in a trailer that cools overnight and then sits on a dock in the morning sun...
Watch the process first Cortec put out a one-minute demonstration of the packaging routine we recommend to every shop that ships machined, stamped or remanufactured metal parts. It is short enough to show a packer on the floor, and it covers the three things that...
Every plant between Ohio and Iowa knows the calendar. Sometime in June the dew point climbs, the doors are open, the parts washer is running hot, and machined steel that sat clean on the rack all winter starts showing orange spots overnight. Maintenance calls it...
