Custom protective packaging solutions built around your product, shipping requirements, and operational needs.

Custom Packaging Solutions

Packaging Tailored to Your Requirements

Protecting valuable products begins with understanding how they will be handled, stored, and transported. Every shipment presents unique challenges, and selecting the right packaging solution is essential to ensuring products arrive safely and efficiently.

Arrow works closely with customers to develop custom protective packaging solutions based on product specifications, shipping requirements, handling methods, environmental conditions, and operational objectives. Drawing on decades of manufacturing experience and a broad range of packaging materials, we help customers identify the most effective solution for each application.

Our capabilities include custom wood crates, precision foam fabrication, ATA shipping cases, corrugated packaging, engineered pallets, export packaging, and Vendor Managed Inventory programs. Every project is manufactured to customer requirements using proven materials, skilled craftsmanship, and a commitment to quality.

Whether supporting aerospace, defense, electronics, medical devices, industrial equipment, robotics, or other high-value products, Arrow provides dependable packaging solutions designed to protect products throughout the supply chain.

Custom Capabilities

Packaging Designed Around Your Product

Arrow manufacturers packaging systems that combine structural design, protective materials, and manufacturing expertise to deliver dependable transportation performance.

Manufactured Packaging Built to Spec

Custom packaging layouts manufactured specifically around your product dimensions, weight, handling requirements, and transportation environment.

Precision Foam Fabrication

Precision-designed cushioning systems developed to immobilize products while absorbing shock, vibration, and handling impacts.

Material Selection

Expert selection of wood, foam, corrugated, plastics, hardware, and protective materials based on product requirements and shipping conditions.

Prototype Evaluation

Prototype packaging solutions built and evaluated before full production to verify fit, protection, and manufacturing efficiency.

Shipping Environment Review

Packaging built to withstand domestic freight, export shipping, parcel networks, warehousing, and field handling environments.

Cost Optimization

Packaging solutions configured to reduce material costs, improve manufacturability, simplify assembly, and minimize freight damage.

Technical Expertise

Every Great Packaging Solution Starts with Understanding Your Product

Arrow believes the most effective packaging solutions start with understanding our customer’s requirements—not improvised. Our process evaluates every aspect of transportation, handling, storage, and product protection before manufacturing begins, resulting in packaging systems that perform reliably in real-world shipping environments.

Manufacturing Expertise

Built for Performance

Our custom packaging balances product protection, manufacturability, logistics efficiency, and cost to deliver dependable packaging solutions for virtually any application.

CAD Production Drawings

Foam Fabrication

Prototype Development

Material Selection

Shock Protection

Vibration Control

Export Ready

Cost Optimization

From Packaging Design to Final Shipment

The Arrow Process

Arrow follows a proven process to evaluate packaging requirements, engineer protective solutions, manufacture custom packaging, and prepare products for safe transportation. Our approach helps manufacturers reduce shipping risk while improving efficiency throughout the supply chain.

01

Consultation & Product Review

Review product dimensions, weight, fragility, transportation methods, and shipping requirements.

02

Packaging Expertise

Develop a packaging strategy based on transportation risks, handling conditions, and protection requirements.

03

Custom Design Development

Partner with Arrow to design custom crates, foam systems, pallets, corrugated packaging, and protective packaging components.

04

Manufacturing & Fabrication

Manufacture custom packaging using quality materials and proven production processes.

05

Packaging & Preparation

Pack, secure, block, brace, and prepare products for transportation and storage.

06

Shipment & Delivery Support

With our own fleet of trucks, we deliver within a 60 mile radius to our customers. We also will help coordinate shipments via dedicated truck or LTL to further destinations, including working with our customer’s preferred carriers.

Engineering Partnership

Working as an Extension of Your Engineering Team

Arrow collaborates with product designers, manufacturing engineers, logistics professionals, purchasing teams, and OEMs to develop custom packaging systems that integrate seamlessly into production while delivering dependable transportation performance.

Whether supporting a new product launch or improving an existing packaging program, our engineering team develops practical solutions built around your operational goals.

Frequently Asked Questions

Custom Packaging Solutions FAQ

Our team typically evaluates product dimensions, weight, fragility, center of gravity, transportation method, environmental conditions, handling requirements, and any customer-specific shipping or storage requirements before developing a packaging solution.

Yes. We regularly work from CAD models, engineering drawings, prototypes, and early product designs to develop packaging solutions before production begins.

Absolutely. Arrow frequently evaluates existing packaging systems to reduce freight damage, improve manufacturability, lower costs, simplify assembly, and enhance transportation performance.

Yes. Our sales engineering team develops export packaging solutions that incorporate ISPM-15 compliant wood packaging, vapor barrier protection, corrosion prevention, and international transportation requirements.

Yes. Arrow provides complete in-house manufacturing of engineered wood crates, foam fabrication, ATA shipping cases, corrugated packaging, custom pallets, and protective packaging systems designed by our engineering team.

Ready to Get Started?

Let's Produce Your Next Packaging Solution

Whether you’re launching a new product, improving an existing packaging program, or solving a complex transportation challenge, Arrow’s sales engineering team is ready to develop a custom solution designed for dependable performance.

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