UPS and Sealed Air team up
UPS and Sealed Air are teaming up to provide e-commerce packaging and shipping solutions. “Our partnership with Sealed Air provides a powerful suite of products and services to businesses operating in the booming e-commerce arena, which is expected to grow at three times the rate of GDP,” said Alan Gershenhorn, Chief Commercial Officer, UPS.
In a statement issued yesterday (17 November), UPS said: “Previous years of collaboration between both companies have led to this next logical step of expansion with the introduction of several new offerings.”
As part of the partnership, UPS customers gain access to additional package engineering expertise and services through Sealed Air’s Packaging Application Centers, which provide design, testing, and packaging performance analysis for customers from 27 global locations.
Additionally, Sealed Air will participate in the UPS Customer Technology Program (CTP), providing packaging systems and materials. CTP is a customer loyalty program that connects small to medium-sized businesses with vendors of hardware, software, peripherals – and now packaging.
“E-commerce is perhaps the most important consumer goods revolution of the last 15 years and companies like UPS and Sealed Air have transformed themselves to serve it,” said Jerome A. Peribere, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sealed Air.
Starting in early 2017, customers will be able to experience the new packaging solutions and tour a special Sealed Air showroom at the UPS Supply Chain Solutions facility in Louisville, Kentucky.
On Monday last week, Sealed Air launched its StealthWrap “ultra durable” cartoning solution, which it claims will allow primary package cartons to be protected for transit without the need for outer boxes or additional packaging materials.
