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April 23, 2025
Wood shipping crates are an essential part of shipping for large products, equipment, and bulk loose items to reduce damage and ensure your items arrive together. They are rigorously built to keep even the most sensitive products secure and intact during their journey to the end user. In this post, we'll share the benefits of wood shipping crates, explore their essential features, and explain why so many industries insist on using them.
Wood shipping crates are large, forklift ready boxes typically made of plywood, opening features and loading features, and custom interiors to protect and provide stability during the shipment and storage of what they contain.
Strength and Durability – Often made of heavy-duty plywood with re-enforced corners and supports to provide protection against possible damage during shipping
Customizable Sizes – Built to protect specific products, materials, or shipments. Can be quite large or smaller, they are custom built to the specific use case
Customizable Interiors – Whether its shelving, soft sewn, foam, or cradles, the interior can be built to stabilize the shipment and prevent damaging movement.
Easy to Handle – Often designed forklift ready with other features like hinges, handles, ramps, and connectors to make loading, unloading, and transport easier.
Eco-Friendly – Constructed from renewable and recyclable materials,
Wood shipping crates offer an extraordinary level of structural strength and integrity, making them better for the kinds of demanding environments and tough transport conditions that trucks and trains face.
There are many advantages to using wooden crates for shipping:
Secure Transportation — Very reliable protection for nearly all kinds of fragile, heavy, or oversized cargo.
Versatile Applications — Suitable across several industries, like the military and automotives, in which traditional wooden crates see a lot of use.
Cost-Effectiveness — An economically friendly option for shipping in bulk, as well as for high-volume, high-value, and international shipments.
Minimal Environment Impact — Crates made from lumber that is sourced sustainably are eco-friendly, reusable, and biodegradable.
Carpentry brings to bear many centuries of experience in crafting secure, durable, and versatile wooden crates.
Shipping crates made of wood serve many industries very well. These include:
Industrial Equipment - Ensuring that heavy machinery, tools, and equipment arrive safely and intact.
Logistics & Freight - Ensuring the secure transportation of goods across the global supply chain and providing robust protection during transit.
Automotive - Ensuring that vehicle parts and components arrive safely and intact and significantly reducing potential damage and losses.
Military & Aerospace - Ensuring that defense equipment and aerospace components arrive safely and intact and meeting the rigorous standards that these industries require.
Shipping wooden crates are essential for safe, efficient, and sustainable shipping solutions. At the Royal Case Company, we provide customized shipping wooden crates designed specifically for your needs. Get in touch with us today to talk about your shipping crate requirements!
Author: Kelvin Gentry
Kelvin Gentry is the Marketing Director for Royal Case Company Inc. based out of Sherman, TX.
