Ensuring the safe transit of products is a critical concern for businesses across all industries. From perishable goods to fragile electronics, through to lifesaving drugs and medical equipment, maintaining optimal conditions during shipping is vital to preserve quality and prevent damage.
For businesses dealing with pharmaceutical and medical products daily, packaging is a huge factor in the success of your operation. In fact, the packaging responsible for protecting and transporting these products is just as important as the manufacturing of the treatment or pharmaceutical device itself.
When it comes to shipping and logistics, ensuring that goods reach their destination as expected, is crucial. As a business, any damage incurred to products during transit can lead to financial losses, a damaged reputation, and dissatisfied customers.
The original ShockWatch (which we will call ShockWatch 1) and ShockWatch 2 are both examples of impact indicators that can be used to monitor and detect mishandling or damage to products during storage and shipment.
A recent survey revealed that 34% of packaging related returns are due to product damage, and this can have a real impact on a business’s reputation. To help protect shipments from damage wholesale packaging supplier, Swiftpak, have recently launched a brand new range of Impact Indicators.
The delivery of temperature sensitive products – particularly vaccines – can be extremely challenging, as it’s essential that they are stored and transported within a specific temperature range.
A ShockWatch impact indicator will alert the viewer to potential danger, show any concealed damage, and clarify responsibility. That’s why it is such an asset to have when shipping sensitive or breakable products, particularly for industries such as manufacturing, distribution, and shipping.
Product damage is a serious problem for many businesses, it reduces revenue, creates irritation for customers and impacts operations.
The importance of labels can sometimes be underestimated. They serve a crucial purpose as they can help to identify the product whilst providing important information to keep customers and team members aware of any dangerous situations.
