Export packing
A flat-packed structure is only as good as the list that travels with it. What goes in the crates, how the cartons are marked, and what you receive before the container leaves.
01 Packing
The packing is designed so a crew that has never built one of these can work from the bundle tags and the drawing, instead of sorting through a mixed pile of parts.
Frame members are bundled by the group they belong to on the drawing, strapped, and wrapped in protective film so the coating arrives unmarked. Each bundle carries a tag with its group code, so the crew opens the bundle that matches the step it is on rather than whatever sits on top of the stack.
Roof sheets travel on edge with edge protection. Membrane is folded to a marked sequence so it is laid in the same order as the frame goes up — a creased sheet, or a membrane folded against its grain, is a roof that never sits flat.
Anchors, bolts, screws, sealant and touch-up paint are divided into bags labelled with the step that uses them. One mixed box of hardware is how a crew ends up short of a single bolt size and improvising the rest.
The packing list ties carton numbers to drawing references and to the assembly sequence, with the gross weight of each carton. It is the document the forwarder, the installer and the site store all work from.
02 Finishing
A frame is hung on the line, sprayed and left to cure before a single metre of film goes around it. Wrap a frame that is still wet, or pack it before it has cured, and the film bonds to the paint: the customer opens the bundle to a marked surface and a finish that cannot be touched up cleanly.
03 Photographs
Coated sections wrapped and palletised in the workshop, a completed unit photographed at the container terminal. Photographs like these are issued against the packing list before dispatch.
04 The documents
The quotation states the delivery terms and what is included. The packing list states the volume, the weight and what is in each carton — together they are what a customs broker and an installer both need.
Tell us the structure, the quantity and the destination port. We will send the reference packing list and loading plan for a comparable order, so the freight can be costed before the structure is.
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