BASIC BOX PACKING INSTRUCTIONS
Step 1
Place
a properly sized and hard frozen Cold-Stuff Ice Pack in the bottom of your box.
Step 2
Place your frozen product on the
Cold Stuff Ice Pack
Step 3
Place another Cold-Stuff Ice
Pack on top of your product. The weather and foam thickness in your box will
dictate how many pads will be required for your ship time.
Step
4
Place
the top foam panel into the box. Make sure the product and ice packs are not
sticking up above the height of the side panels. That would prevent the foam top
panel from making a tight seal on all sides which will let warm air into the box
through the crack.
Step
5
Seal
the liner bag and tape the box lid shut.
NOTE:
Don't pack the boxes in the morning and let them sit around your office for
hours until you get ready to take them to FedEx or UPS, etc., PUT THE ENTIRE
PACKED BOX IN YOUR FREEZER IF YOU CAN'T DELIVER IT RIGHT AWAY!
Cold-Stuff
Ice Packs will
replace gel-packs, crushed ice, and block ice (and dry ice in most
applications). Companies shipping products that must remain frozen or
refrigerated will reduce their
packaging and shipping costs when using
Cold-Stuff Ice Packs.
As you can see in
the pictures below, Cold-Stuff Ice Packs are like 4 inch square
gel packs connected together on a sheet (or blanket) so when you cut them to fit
your box you will get full coverage and therefore full protection for you
product!
Cold-Stuff Ice Packs
will not shift around and "settle" in a corner where they can do no
good when the box gets tossed around.
During
shipping your box WILL get tossed around and gel packs WILL shift around and
"settle" leaving areas of your product unprotected and other areas
over protected. Cold-Stuff Ice Packs
cut to fit will stay put!
Click
here for complete
information on how to use Cold-Stuff Ice Packs
Let us SHOW
you why Cold-Stuff Ice Packs protect your products better than gel packs...
Place 2-1/3
pounds of gel packs in the bottom of one box and see how much coverage you
get (Below)
In another box place
2-1/3 pounds of Cold-Stuff Ice Packs. You get FULL coverage and it fits
the box! (Below)
Now back to
the gel pack box...after putting your product on top of the first gel packs,
place 2-1/3 more pounds of gel packs on top of your product and see how much
coverage you get (Below), hmmm, again there seems to be a considerable amount of
unprotected product.
Now place
2-1/3 more pounds of Cold-Stuff Ice Packs on top of your product and see how
much coverage you get (Below). How about that, full coverage!
NOW, TAPE BOTH
BOXES SHUT AND SHAKE THEM AROUND!
WE DID...
The gel packs
"settled" and left much of the product unprotected. Gel Packs don't
fit the box and they can't hold themselves in place (Below).
Cold-Stuff Ice Packs
can be cut to fit any box and even after shaking the box around your product is
still completely covered with ice packs (Below), because they stay in place!
Which product do YOU
think will better protect your perishable products during shipping.
Lets not forget
that a
pound of Cold-Stuff
Ice Packs costs
50% to 75% less than a pound of gel packs! Cold-Stuff
Ice Packs
cost between 11* cents and
18* cents per pound. Gel packs can range from 28* cents to 70* cents per pound! *Prices
vary with purchase quantity and supplier.
The
end result is that using Cold-Stuff
Ice Packs will
save you money on every pound of refrigerant you use AND offer better protection
for your perishable products than gel packs!
Cold-Stuff Ice Pack Price List
Click
here for complete information on how to use Cold-Stuff Ice Packs
Perishables
Packaging TIP:
Using a (three cent)
thin cheap plastic bag liner in ANY type of insulated box will add protection by
trapping the cold air around your product in case the lid does not fit
perfectly.
Molded foam shipping
chests will also benefit from the addition of a plastic bag in the box because
their lids do not make an air tight seal without help.
If there are any
cracks in the foam around the lid or corners, your precious frozen ice packs
will have to cool the warm air that will seep in the crack. Air in the inside of
the outer box cardboard (between the insulation and the outer box) will get as
hot as the outer cardboard box because it is not INSIDE the foam. The air inside
the back of a delivery truck can get as hot as 130 degrees in the summer and the
outer cardboard of your box will be 130 degrees also. Your product can use every
little trick you have on days like those, and there WILL be days like those!
NOTICE:
Cold-Stuff
Ice Packs / Ice Pads are designed to be used as an inexpensive replacement for
wet ice, dry ice, gel ice, gel ice blanket, gel packs or any other ice pack in
normal every day shipping of perishable products.
Cold-Stuff
Ice Packs / Ice Pads are made of non-toxic and disposable materials that will
not harm the environment. For more information see the Material
Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) on our website or call 251-602-4893 to request a
copy to be faxed to you.
Any
application other than as a shipping refrigerant as described in this website,
must be evaluated by the user for acceptability and compliance with all
regulations that apply to the intended alternate application. We accept NO responsibility for damages whether real or imagined
arising from any misuse of Cold-Stuff Ice Packs.
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