DHL Express Upgrades Packaging

DHL Express, the world’s largest international express delivery company, will deploy a range of environmentally friendly boxes made from 100 percent recyclable material.

The DHL branded packaging range will extend from an envelope to a pallet box, and include a set of seven boxes of different sizes, two triangular tubes and four wine boxes, the company said Tuesday. The new range will be available to customers in most countries around the world by late 2009, as a phased deployment plan progressively replaces current branded packaging items.

The boxes minimize the amount of raw materials and increase strength and compression resistance, thus reducing the total surface area of the larger items. Styrofoam filler has been eliminated from the wine boxes.

“This versatile packaging range really does satisfy the majority of our customers’ shipping needs,” said Roland Thomas, vice president global products at DHL Express. “We can manage any parcel from 500g to 25kg, cater to a variety of shapes and with our patented pallet box, we can increase the weight range to 100kg.”

Contact Thomas L. Gallagher at tgallagher@joc.com.