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Cardboard is the key material for organizing shipments and keeping packages safe in the warehouse: this is why it must be resistant and of high quality. How to make cardboard more resistant. A lack of robustness is often synonymous with logistical and sales issues, leading to inconvenience and a lack of quality when supporting fragile, delicate, and sometimes heavy goods. Let’s discover how to make cardboard more resistant. Read also: “How to ship appliances: the right packaging” Quality and Safety Regardless of your goal, the cardboard box must always be made and chosen according to the product it will contain. This ensures shipping without logistical problems, avoiding falls, impacts, and crushing. The ideal choice is a double-wall cardboard model: stronger shipping boxes characterized by a higher grammage. Choosing unsuitable paper compositions means ending up with low-quality packaging and potentially damaged goods. Unexpected events, or even humidity, could damage the product inside the box. Secondly, it is necessary to fill the content of the box without leaving empty spaces, preventing the goods from moving and, at the same time, supporting potential pressure from above or lateral impacts. To do this, use specific packaging materials such as: Polystyrene Foam rubber Wrapping paper Bubble wrap The goal is to create a buffer between the box wall and the goods inside, perhaps adding internal structures to lock and immobilize them. This method guarantees greater resistance with a sort of internal skeleton: there are indeed honeycomb cardboard bases or cylinders (also called partitions) to be added to American boxes to secure very fragile objects like glass bottles. Another way to ensure greater safety is to print universal symbols to communicate the fragile nature of the content to handlers. Closure and packaging To make the cardboard even more resistant, in addition to tape, it is possible to use plastic straps to reinforce and keep the sides of the box compact, along with edge protectors to prevent the corners from being ruined: there are different shapes and models in rigid plastic, foam rubber, or cardboard. If, however, you need to ship bulky packages for long trips, you can opt for pallet packaging: standard wooden pallets are the perfect base to ensure that packages remain united on a single structure. You can also add stretch film to this structure with a dedicated machine, enclosing the items into a single element, protecting them from both rain and shocks/movements due to the lightness of the package. Consult also: “How to pack a TV and special objects for a move” Cart-One guarantees corrugated cardboard packaging and crates designed and manufactured according to your needs. Visit our website and contact us for any information.

Climate change is a current and urgent topic that affects the whole world and requires the right attention from society. First of all, the industries that have an urgent duty to change their production methods, becoming more sustainable and attentive to the environment. It is for these reasons that for years there has been talk of a decarbonisation strategy to be implemented as soon as possible, that is, a path that will gradually limit CO2 emissions into the atmosphere until they completely disappear. Is it possible to donate a healthier and cleaner planet to the next generations? What is decarbonization Scientifically, decarbonization is the change in the ratio of carbon to hydrogen between energy sources. A decarbonization strategy, therefore, involves the use of energy sources that have fewer and fewer carbon atoms, cleaner and more renewable. For a long time, the energy sources used by man have always had, in their composition, a high ratio of hydrogen to carbon atoms. Not surprisingly, the energy supply has always been divided between oil, natural gas and coal, that is fossil sources that require combustion to produce energy, releasing significant quantities of pollutants into the environment, especially CO2. Decarbonisation aims at a progressive reduction of fossil sources as energy sources, replacing them with renewable ones, so as to gradually reduce the release of CO2 into the environment, up to zero emissions. The objectives of the European Union for decarbonisation Due to global warming, today it is very important to push industries towards the use of clean and renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, abandoning the fossil sources responsible for the release of enormous quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere and consequently for climate change that it could destroy our planet. Already since the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and the Paris Agreement of 2015, institutions have begun to worry about the environment, so much so that they have recognized that decarbonisation is an essential tool for minimizing carbon dioxide emissions in atmosphere. The European Union has set itself the goal, by 2030, of reducing emissions by 40%, so as to reach zero by 2050. In this way, we will be able to release emissions so low that the planet will be able to absorb them naturally. Decarbonisation strategy: what is the European paper industry doing? The European paper industry immediately expressed its interest in supporting a decarbonisation strategy, which, accompanied by a circular economy, can be the key to making our planet a better planet. The European paper industries have already outlined their plans for some time to achieve the environmental objectives that the European Union has set for 2050, guaranteeing the sustainability of the raw materials used and improving production processes. Among the sustainable raw materials used is wood pulp, renewable and ecological, coming from forest sources managed correctly. Forests, in fact, are natural carbon sinks that play a fundamental role in rebalancing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. For this reason, in addition to renewability, the circularity of the economy and decarbonisation, a correct and sustainable management of forests must be accompanied, supported by the paper industry, which ensures growing tree coverage in Europe, thanks to a series of certified programs such as PEFC (Program for the approval of forest certification) and FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council). Furthermore, since 2005, the European paper industry has already implemented a decarbonisation strategy with a reduction of 27% and spends around 5 billion euros per year to improve production processes.

In a previous article, we introduced the UNI EN ISO 14001 certification, which defines the standard and requirements for an “Environmental Management System”. We continue our deep dive into the ethical and environmental recognitions acquired over the years by the Cart One Group, introducing specifically the following certifications: The SA 8000 ethical certification Workplace Condition Assessment (WCA) SEDEX Ecovadis In detail, Cart-One Salerno achieved the SA8000 certification and Cart-One Parma achieved the WCA. Sedex and Ecovadis are shared by both companies. The purpose of ethical certifications is to create a virtuous chain involving suppliers, employees, collaborators, and final customers in order to increase their satisfaction and loyalty through socially responsible behavior. What is the SA 8000 Ethical Certification? The SA8000 Ethical Certification is an internationally recognized reference standard created with the aim of guaranteeing optimal working conditions, encouraging and helping organizations to develop and apply socially acceptable practices in the workplace. A management system that holds this certification proves effective for the proper management and constant monitoring of all related activities and processes affecting workers' conditions (human rights, development, empowerment, professional training and growth, health and safety, non-discrimination). These requirements also extend to suppliers and sub-suppliers. WORKPLACE CONDITION ASSESSMENT (WCA) Following an Ethical Audit commissioned by a partner company, the Cart One Group satisfied all the necessary requirements to obtain the WCA certification: Workplace Condition Assessment (WCA) Achievement Award. A valuable award in the Human Resources field, which evaluates the overall Quality of work through a series of indicators. These include: Quality of work, wages, and hours: verifying working hours, employee salaries, and benefits; Health and safety at work: inspecting machinery safety, emergency management, accident prevention, and any related health risks in the workplace; Management systems and Environmental impact: assessing environmental management systems, emissions, waste, and all related activities carried out to develop environmental sustainability. An important recognition aimed at certifying how much our Group cares about the well-being of its employees and the environment. SEDEX Certification Sedex is a non-profit organization committed to the development and dissemination of ethical principles across global supply chains, representing the largest platform in Europe that collects and processes data on the ethical behavior of supply chains. The Sedex methodology proposed and developed the SMETA procedure, namely: “Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit”, to provide a best-practice framework for conducting audits and compiling related ethical and social reports. The beneficiaries are all stakeholders involved in the process: retailers, manufacturers, and (generally) suppliers. EcoVadis Certification EcoVadis aims to improve and enhance the environmental and social practices of companies by leveraging the influence of global logistics chains. EcoVadis operates the first collaborative platform enabling businesses to monitor the Sustainability performance of their suppliers across 150 sectors and 110 countries. Take a look at our CERTIFICATIONS.