Imagine sending a fully loaded pallet out the door, confident it is secured and compliant, only to receive a call three days later telling you the load shifted on the highway and someone got hurt. Under Australian law, that call does not just go to the transport operator. It comes to you too. This is […]
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Gateway Packaging – Built for the Demands of Warehousing At Gateway Packaging, we understand that the warehousing and logistics sector runs on precision, speed, and protection. While large-scale systems and equipment get most of the attention, it’s the everyday consumables—tapes, films, wraps, and edge protectors—that quietly hold the system together. In this blog, we explore […]
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A shipment of insulin leaves a Melbourne pharmaceutical warehouse at 6am. The consignment must stay between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius from dispatch to delivery. By the time it reaches a regional Queensland clinic three days later, one inadequate gel pack and a single temperature excursion have rendered the entire batch non-compliant. The product is […]
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Three returns per hundred parcels. That is the average damage rate Australian e-commerce operations absorb when mailing packaging is not matched to the product going inside it. For a business despatching 500 parcels a day, that is 15 returns. Each one triggers a replacement despatch, a customer service call, a refund or credit, and a […]
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Over 2.5 billion plastic bags and mailers enter the Australian waste stream every year from e-commerce and retail despatch operations. For Australian businesses still using single-use plastic mailers, that statistic is no longer a sustainability footnote. It is a procurement audit item for major retail clients, a reportable metric under APCO obligations, and increasingly a […]
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If you have ever watched a load shift on a truck halfway through a long haul, you already understand why pallet wrapping matters. If you have not, consider this your friendly heads-up before it happens on your watch. In a country where a single freight run can cover more distance than some entire European nations, […]
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Two Australian e-commerce businesses processing the same daily order volume. One ships in a generic brown carton with plain brown tape, void-filled to compensate for the dimensional mismatch between the carton and the product. The other ships in a custom-dimensioned carton with branded printed tape that doubles as a tamper indicator. On arrival, the first […]
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Walk into any warehouse or despatch area in Australia and you will find tape doing more work than most people give it credit for. It seals cartons, secures pallets, protects surfaces, bundles stock, and marks hazard zones. With so many tape types on the market, choosing the wrong one costs you in failed seals, […]
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In business, we are always looking for ways to save costs and reduce bills. What if we told you that you could potentially be saving many dollars when it comes to your packaging supplies? These are the top 5 ways we believe that you can potentially reduce costs!
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The Paxum® range of premium stretch wrap film is proving itself to be the product of choice due to its superior properties including stretchability, cling, puncture resistance, clarity and low noise application.
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