Onsite Packing & Crating Services

 

Onsite Packing & Crating Services Pittsburgh

Need help at your place of business with packing, palletizing, or crating? Our fully-insured onsite team can come to you with a wide range of services:

Contact us for a free in-person or phone consultation, or get a quote now via the web.

See what clients have to say about Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship’s service.

Got something large you are exporting? Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship are your “come to you” folks for all you onsite crating needs. Here’s a sample piece of equipment we wrapped in marine-wrap for ocean transport and custom crated onsite at a client’s location in Maryland. One of five very large crates for equipment going to Siberia.

Custom Crating Services

Custom Crating Greater Pittsburgh, Eastern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia

Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship is the area’s leading crater and specialty crating company. We offer custom crating and container options for all high value, heavy, fragile and unique items, regardless of size or weight.

  • We use sophisticated software to determine the best packing and crating design options based on fragility, item composition, value, and destination.
  • We design and build corrugate and solid wood crates.
  • We offer on-site packing and crating services.

Our crating solutions include:

Commercial Crates, Industrial Crates, Product Specific Crates, ISPM-15 Export Certified Crates, Re-usable Crates, Knock-down Crates, Mass Produced Crates, Tradeshow Crates, Display Crates, Military Crates, Computer Crates, Electronics Crates, IT Equipment Crates, Moving Crates, Furniture Crates, Museum Quality Crates, Art Crates, and Antique Crates.

Contact us for a free in-person or phone consultation, or get a quote now via the web.

See what clients have to say about Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship’s service.

Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship is your “go-to” company for packing, crating, and shipping anything bought at auction. We provide you with our trusted expertise as well as full coverage insurance on all your auction purchases. Whether you buy large items at industrial auctions, fragile merchandise at art & antique auctions, or anything in between, you can count on us to get it to wherever it needs to go domestically or internationally.

Crating Industrial Equipment From Auction

Custom Crates PittsburghGot something heavy, large, fragile, or all three to get from here to there? Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship has all the capabilities to solve your most complex packing and shipping challenges. A recent example is a large (56″ x 56″ x 103″) circuit breaker weighing 3000 lbs and requiring special protection to ship overseas via ocean freight. We started by wrapping  the unit in 6 mil  VCI (Vapor Corrosion Inhibitor) shrink film to protect from the corrosive effects of salty sea air. The next step was to custom crate the unit in a heavy-duty export compliant crate equipped with high-tech Sorbothane vibration isolating pads that lower the natural frequency of a system (like a container ship engine) to below the excitation (or disturbing) frequency (think: less shake delivers a better cake). Finally, the crate was equipped with shock-watch & tilt indicators, and banded for extra crate strength with high-tensile metal banding.

Onsite Packing & Crating Services

Onsite Packing, Palletizing, and Crating In Greater Pittsburgh Area

Need help at your place of business with packing, palletizing, or crating? Our fully-insured onsite team can come to you with a wide range of services:

  • We provide onsite packing services for businesses throughout the Greater Pittsburgh, western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio areas
  • We offer a wide range of packaging and wrapping options including standard-size boxes, custom boxes, custom corrugate shipping containers, custom pallets, and custom solid-wood crates
  • We can provide export compliant (ISPM-15) pallets and crates
  • We can pack and crate at your business after-hours and on weekends
  • We pack a full-range of items including computer and IT equipment, files, office furniture and office decor items like artwork and sculptures, and small to the very largest pieces of industrial equipment

Contact us for a free in-person or phone consultation, or get a quote now via the web.

See what clients have to say about Pak Mail Pittsburgh’s service.

 

IMG_0232The best part of the shipping business is the variety of folks, items, and destinations you deal with. Here’s a quick sample from the past week:

  • Export crated and shipped a 900 lbs mechanical grapple going to Western Australia. As shown in the picture below, this awesome piece looks like the business end of of a tyrannosaurus rex!
  • Shipped ten beautiful works of art by local artist Michael Lotenero to the Morrison Gallery in Kent, CT
  • Picked-up and shipped to domestic and many international destinations lots purchased by 20 plus clients of Concept Art Gallery from the auction held on 10/27. Many of the paintings were from the estate of Jane Haskell, a very renowned Pittsburgh artist who passed away a year ago. We were very proud to have assisted Ms Haskell’s daughters in packing-up many of the remarkable pieces created by their mother.  Concept’s next auction is on December 6th.
  • Provided “last mile” delivery services for a logistics company coordinating the roll-out of a merchandising program to a national retailer. Stores visited ranged as far as Erie, PA and Johnstown, PA.
  • Crated and provided next-day transport services for a local art collector for a painting going to a restoration firm in Eastern PA. We received the call from this collector’s office on Tuesday afternoon, picked-up the piece & crated it that day, and transported on our own truck to deliver the next day.

Here are some pictures of a crating job we completed this week. Six crates of large gas metering equipment being shipped by ocean overseas. Two of the equipment pieces measured 28 feet long by 10 feet wide by 10 feet high and weighed 35,000 lbs each. All equipment needed to be wrapped in soft-foam and marine-grade plastic prior to crating.

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If variety is the spice of life, then this last week was a very savory time for us. Here’s a quick recap of the broad spectrum of projects we worked-on and completed in the past week:

– packed up and air freighted an 18 foot kayak to Singapore

-packed-up and transported to storage 90 pieces of artwork for the estate of a renown Pittsburgh artist

-manufactured and delivered 14 export crates to a local specialty steel manufacturer

-picked-up, packed, and shipped 5 “small moves” for a variety of clients

-packed-up and air freighted to Naples, Italy a 9′ x 6′ multi-media artwork for a local gallery

– picked-up, packed, and shipped a large order of rental religious items (statues, altar pieces, candle holders, tabernacle, and much more) from Church Connection going to a movie production in Bostom, MA plus sale items going to a monastery in Upstate New York

-received and delivered furniture items on behalf of two local interior designers

-worked on a containerizing and shipping project involving 55,000 lbs of fire-damaged recycling equipment going to Shanghai, China for reburbishing

-worked on the planning of a project involving the packing and shipping of the archive of a well-know local academic from Pittsburgh to a university in Germany

A busy week that reinforces our motto: We ship anything, anywhere! Hope your long-weekend is a restful as we plan our’s to be.

iStock_crates2014 has been a great year in terms of presenting us with a number of interesting industrial crating projects. Here’s a quick sampling:

  • The Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship on-site crating team completed a project last week for large machine tool manufacturer involving the shipment of a large metallurgy furnace to Asia. Sensitive electronic control panels and units needed wrapped and protected against the corrosive effects of salty ocean air. This was done using 7-mil marine grade polyethylene shrink film and desiccant as calculated per the MIL-STD-2073 specification.
  • Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship provides “ready-to-assemble” custom export (ISPM-15) crates to a large West Virginia manufacturer of conveyor and material handling equipment. This customer often requires these heavy-duty, custom sized crates on very short notice with 2nd day shipping (and sometimes next day shipping)Pak Mail Crates
    of the units. We have proud to say that we have never missed a deadline ever with this client and despite the dreadful winter  we have experienced this past (and present!) winter. We ship these crates “ready-to-assemble” to reduce the freight classification and minimize the freight cost. You may be surprised to learn how inexpensively we can ship custom crates around the country.

Here’s to more crate big things in 2014!