Inflatable Wine Packaging Supplies and Why It's Better
There are only two places I ever want to see a wine bottle. (1) Uncorked, in front of me, ready to be poured into a glass in my hand or (2) protected by an Inflatable Packaging AirBag™ Wine Shipper. And while I am no expert on wine, I do know that after spending months harvesting and fermenting, the last thing any winemaker wants is to have a bottle shatter in transit because of poor packaging.
Traditional shipping methods for wine bottles is usually molded pulp clam shells, polystyrene containers, or worse, plain corrugate partitions. Which is all fine and good if you don't believe in progress. But there's a reason why we aren't all driving around in black Model Ts.
Ever seen a wine bottle bounce?
Now you have.
If molded pulp could do that, I'd be impressed.
In early testing of inflatable wine shippers, some very mature people here at IPI (we won't name names) thought it'd be a good idea to see what happens when we packed up three wine bottles in a triple pack and drop it from 3 stories up. Turns out the good idea would have been to record the drop since all 3 bottles survived. (Next time we play that game, I promise there'll be video proof!)
But there are more benefits to AirBag™ Wine Shipper than just extraordinary product protection.
3 reasons you should inflate your wine packaging
- The obvious space saver - 1 cubic foot box containing 300 inflatable bags is mindblowing when you take into consideration that molded pulp or polysytrene would take up 50 to 500 times that amount of space.
- The "greener" choice - not only are inflatable bags completely recyclable, they also offer immense reductions in carbon footprints. Less mass in landfills means more land for, oh I don't know, things like vineyards.
- The shipping saver - because inflatable wine packaging protects with air, typically shippers see a reduction not only in parcel weight but also in required corrugate. With potentionally thousands of shipments a year, that adds up.