Hosting an online auction can be a huge challenge. Sure, there is the fun and anticipation about who will win the auction and how much money will be brought in to support your cause, but the auction—and stress—isn’t over until the last item has been shipped out.
Shipping can be challenging due to many factors—the weight of the item, size, shape, value, if it’s fragile, or even a combination of those. The average person usually doesn’t have the products needed to protect and ship items like those.
Imagine going to the store and tossing dozens of items in your cart—bubble wrap, foam, tape, paper rolls, boxes of every size and shape. You get back and try to figure out how to keep that figurine from breaking or how to protect an odd piece of machinery with a lot of pieces that look like a puzzle. Then there is that huge item that will not fit in any box you can find, and that is the final straw. You need help.
At Pinnacle Packaging, we have shipped every awkward or challenging item you can imagine and provided stress relief for shippers and purchasers alike.
Here are some of the items we pack, crate, and ship:
- Computers and telecom electronics, including IT equipment, server racks, office equipment, and tech equipment.
- Commercial and industrial machinery, including heavy, awkward, and time-sensitive items (includes rigging and machine moving, if necessary).
- Lab equipment, including lab glassware and delicate lab equipment.
- Industry standard-style crates, military specification-style crates, and ASTM-style crates.
- Medical equipment, including lab equipment, test machines, and measuring devices.
- Aviation and aircraft spares, including airframes, rotables, engines, propellers, nacelles, cowls, landing gear, avionics, and control surfaces, etc.
- Fine art and antiques, including paintings, sculptures, museum-quality pieces, one-of-a-kind originals, framed photography, lithography, glass, metal, stone, and wax ceramics.
- Antique collectibles, including furniture, mirrors, chandeliers, statues, and grandfather clocks.
- Industrial auction items, including machinery, electronics, and equipment.
- Motorcycles.
How Does it Work?
The process begins with our team picking up your item to be shipped and transporting it to our facility. We can coordinate with our fleet of trucks to pick up your items from anywhere in the upper Midwest. Workers will pad, protect, and strap down all of your belongings and take them to our shop for high-quality packing and crating. If you live outside our service area, we are happy to arrange for one of our reputable logistics partners to pick up your items.
Once we have your item(s), we assess each item for size, weight, and unique challenges and determine what type of protective packaging would be best. This could include vacuum sealing, custom corrugated packaging, interior packing and padding, specialized custom cushioning, engineered product-specific packaging, or engineered packaging.
Next, we decide what box or crate would be best suited for the item. To protect your shipment, we use only the highest quality construction lumber and panels for our crates. Our standard industrial packing product consists of a substantial forklift-able platform and plywood or OSB panels with external frames measuring 1×4 or 2×4.
Crates come—or are made—in nearly every imaginable size out of the best materials for the job. Pinnacle Packaging offers standard crates, custom-engineered crates, skids and pallets, mil-spec crates, Carolina Inspection Services (heat treated for export), museum and trade show crates, and knock-down and reusable crates.
The most important part of the shipping experience is our team of experts who you can rely on to ensure that your items get safely to their destination in the same condition they left your hands.
To find out more about how we can protect and ship your auction items, please call us at (773) 235-6060.
About Us
Pinnacle Packaging, Inc. offers our customers the best product selection and fast delivery, all at great prices. We are proud to offer over 20,000 quality products from well-known and trusted brands like 3M, Sealed Air, Tape Logic, Rubbermaid, Ivex, and many more. Our mission is to be the single source answer to all our customers’ packaging needs.
Through the years, we have established a reputation with our customers for providing fast, reliable, and professional service. Our high level of responsiveness to our customers’ needs keeps them coming back.