PACKAGING REQUIREMENTS
Load Securing
It's about safeguarding your load from damage
Load securing, also known as cargo securing, ensures that cargo is safely secured for transportation. This practice has a fourfold impact: it improves individual safety by preventing accidents from unsecured loads, protects the environment from hazardous leaks, reduces costs by preventing damage, and saves time during unloading. Additionally, it helps maintain a positive company image by ensuring products arrive intact. Nefab can assist with all your shipping needs, including load securing, using the best practices for sea, land, and air freight.
Benefits of Load Securing
Even with adapted packaging, there's a limit to the shocks and vibrations it can endure during transportation before collapsing, necessitating load securing. Smart load securing not just safeguards your products and those handling them but can also result in cost reductions. Find out how here.
Product protection
If the cargo is secured against rolling, tipping and shifting, it will absorb smaller amounts of shocks and vibrations, minimizing risks of packaging deterioration and giving better protection to the packed goods.
Peoples' protection
Load securing is vital for safeguarding the safety of employees, commuters, and bystanders who might be at risk of accidents resulting from inadequately secured loads during transportation.
Environmental protection
Poorly secured packaging can lead to hazardous leaks, endangering both the environment and public health, while effective load securing prevents accidents such as packages falling onto roads, enhancing overall road safety.
Cost reduction
Load securing leads to cost reductions by preventing product damage, saving on labor hours during unloading, and avoiding expenses related to environmental and health risks.
Branding
Ensuring products arrive undamaged through effective load securing is vital for upholding a positive company image and avoiding negative publicity from transportation accidents.
Nefab offers a loadsecuring solutions on 3 different levels
Nefab offers load securing solutions on 3 different levels
Effective load securing starts with well-designed, optimized, and stable packaging at the packaging level. Moving to the pallet level, we offer solutions that ensure pallet stability in accordance with EUMOS 40509 legislation. At the load level, we provide various options to prevent goods from shifting during transportation, including lashing, anti-slip measures, lashing systems, and load spacers—all certified under EN2195 standards.
Our load securing products
Nefab offers specific product combinations to meet every product requirement. Discover the available solutions below, or get in touch to explore tailored load-securing solutions.
Dunnage bags
Dunnage bags are inflatable cushions designed to secure cargo by filling voids between goods in containers, trucks, and railcars.
Load spacers
Load spacers are collapsible, tailor-made solutions designed to fill gaps between products or between cargo and container walls.
Antislip materials
Antislip materials substantially elevate the dynamic sliding friction coefficient between the loading surface and the load, ensuring safe and efficient load securing.
Strapping
Strapping is a reliable cargo-securing method that uses strong straps or bands to keep goods firmly in place.
Lashing
Lashing belts are commonly employed in export packaging, where polywoven polyester bands facilitate quick and efficient load securing.
Edge protectors
Protect your cargo with Nefab’s edge protectors - designed to prevent damage from lashings and straps while ensuring safe, secure transport.
Slip sheets
Nefab's reusable and recyclable slip sheets are a sustainable, space-saving alternative to pallets.
Benefits of Nefab packaging solutions
Nefab saves environmental and financial resources by optimizing supply chains. We do so by innovating together with our customers to create smarter packaging and logistics solutions while always respecting people and ethical standards.
Complete solutions
We provide complete packaging and logistics solutions that reduce total cost and environmental impact throughout the supply chain.
Engineering expertise
With over 250 engineers in 30 locations globally, we collaborate closely with customers to design, prototype, test, and deliver tailored packaging solutions.
Sustainability focus
Nefab's solutions reduce carbon footprints by 31%, on average, reflecting our commitment to sustainability within our operations and offerings.
Global footprint
With 75 years of experience and a presence in over 38 countries, we deliver global solutions with local support.
Get in touch
Contact your local packaging expert
Are you looking for load securing solutions? Reach out to us today! Our team of experts in more than 39 countries is ready to collaborate, innovate, and deliver solutions tailored to your unique challenges. Contact your local sales representative for more information about Nefab packaging solutions and discover how they can enhance your logistics and sustainability efforts.