Customers who choose die cut boxes for shipping and packaging their products can ensure that their items will almost always make it to their destination safely and securely. These boxes are custom designed in order to accurately precisely fit your product and meet its shipping needs. Each die cut box design is unique and is custom created in order to fit the specific shape of what you want to pack, package, or ship. Custom designs of die cut boxes allow for a variety of styling possibilities to include unusual scores, slots, and cuts that will ensure the box provides a perfect fit for your product.
Die Cut Box Uses
Die cut boxes are useful in providing for a clean, precise and professional look to product packaging, and they can be fully customized to meet your product needs. Die Cut boxes may be used for gift boxes on special occasions, and they can be used to ship items to your customers in a safe and secure carton that has the added benefit of looking great. This can even eliminates the need for additional wrapping or display materials as your item can often look very impressive when packaged using a die cut box with an innovative and creative
With die cutting, you are offered a variety of possibilities with added box features. Irregularly shaped boxes and cut away display panels call out particular parts of your product and enhance the overall perceived quality of the item inside. Vent holes can be created so that your produce lasts longer and to provide for greater ventilation. Some boxes can also come with pre-glued corners in order to speed up the packaging process. Other features include:
o Integral interior packing
o Perforated panels and interlocking pieces
o Boxes to fit irregularly shaped items
o Self-locking boxes to eliminate gluing, stitching, and taping
The Die Cutting Process
At Express Packaging, our experienced Die cutting staff use our machinery to create irregular scores, perforations, and curved cuts on a broad range of boxes and materials. This is done through the use of a steel rule die in order to stamp features in a similar fashion to a cookie cutter. The two main types of dies that are used are the rotary die and flat bed die and they are inserted to create the desired cut into cardboard, corrugated fibreboard all within our factory in Sydney.
Common Die Cut Styles
Some of the most common features found in large or small shipping boxes in the die cut style include the following:
o Easy open features
o Carrying handles
o Perforated scores
o Irregularly shaped packages
o Irregularly shaped contours or cut outs
o Integral product separation
o Cut away display panels
o Self-locking packages (without need for glue, tape, or other adhesive)
o Fold in lids with interlocking flaps or tabs
o Corner closures
o Self-locking bottom or top flaps