Can you save money for your business by manufacturing boxes in house?

Can you save money for your business by manufacturing boxes in house?

If you are a business, then it is likely that you use boxes. Cardboard boxes for packing are used for many important reasons in a business; to send parcels in the post, to store things in a warehouse, or simply to protect your products or raw materials.

Most business in the UK use boxes at some time or another, and if your business uses a lot of boxes on a regular basis then you may be looking to reduce costs.

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If you buy boxes in large quantities, then the box suppliers will often give you discounts for larger quantities. This is usually the first port of call for most businesses. However if the prices you are quoted are not low enough, and you feel you need better prices, then manufacturing the cardboard boxes for removals in house might be a solution you are looking into. So how does it work, and can you actually save money by manufacturing boxes in house?

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You can buy machinery which cuts, staples and glues boxes to specific sizes that you require. Modern machinery that can perform this task will typically cost around £30,000 on average for a brand new machine; however you can pick up second hand machinery for £10,000 if you shop around. The machines will do all of the work for you, and all you have to do is feed in sheets of cardboard at one end, and out the other end will appear the flat packed boxes in the sizes you require.

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You still need to purchase cardboard sheets to use the machinery however, assuming you do not want to start a recycling plant to produce the actual cardboard sheets themselves. (Which would be a lot of work and hassle).

Cardboard sheets are still very expensive, and you still need labour to manage the box machine too.

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Typically you can save up to thirty percent by using a box machine and buying in cardboard sheets, but that is all. You can only save thirty percent if the box machine is at full capacity all the time, so your labour is used up to the full.

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For many businesses this isn’t worth the time and hassle, because the effort of manufacturing cardboard packing boxes for moving house may not be worth the small saving made. The time that you take out of your day to day job to manage that, may hold you back in other areas of your growth.

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The reason that you cannot save more, is ultimately because of the cost of the cardboard sheeting. Large box manufacturers buy in huge quantities of cardboard at a time, or recycle themselves, so they are able to make much larger savings that you could.

Address: 26 Chilkwell street Glastonbury Somerset UK Contact: +44 1458837602 Website: http://www.packingsolution.co.uk/