Project Background: Packaging for an Electronics Manufacturing Site
For two years, ORIENS has worked with a U.S. packaging company that provides professional wooden shipping crates to an electronics manufacturing facility in Mexico. The end user is part of a U.S.-listed manufacturing group and needs wooden transport crates in substantial quantities for its electronics products.
The packaging company develops and supplies the complete packaging solution for that facility. ORIENS supports the program as the packaging company's hardware supplier, providing standard C057 zinc-plated crate clips and latches. This arrangement allows the packaging specialist to focus on the crate design and end-use requirements while sourcing defined metal components for recurring production.
What Matters in an Electronics Shipping Crate
A transport crate is a complete packaging system. Its panels, joints, closures and any internal support must work together for the intended packed product and handling conditions. For electronics manufacturing, the packaging process also needs an assembly method that operators can follow consistently as crate demand continues.
At the hardware interface, the clip must engage the intended wooden joint, and the latch must match the designated closure. Panel thickness alone does not establish clip fit: the edge profile, engagement points, clip position and the overall crate layout all matter. The packaging company is responsible for specifying and validating the complete crate for its end customer's application; ORIENS supplies the selected metal parts.
Two Complementary Hardware Components
C057 zinc-plated crate clips connect the compatible wooden crate joints in this program. The standard C057 product is a stamped steel clip with a published width of 50 mm and a material thickness of 1.5 mm. Its zinc-plated finish is the specified surface option supplied for this project. Using a standard model gives the packaging company a consistent component specification for repeat purchasing.
Latches serve a different role: they secure the crate's planned closure points. Clip engagement and latch closure are therefore considered separately in the packaging design. The number and placement of each component depend on the crate drawing and the intended packed load; the supplied hardware does not by itself define the strength or protective performance of the complete crate.
Two Years of Supply: Over 140,000 Components
Over two years of cooperation, ORIENS has supplied more than 100,000 C057 zinc-plated crate clips and 40,000 latches to the U.S. packaging company for this program. No product quality issues have been reported with the clips or latches supplied by ORIENS during this period.
These quantities reflect a continuing packaging program rather than a one-time prototype order. By supplying the two hardware categories against defined product specifications, ORIENS has supported the packaging company in carrying out its wooden crate solution for the electronics manufacturing facility.
Planning a Similar Wooden Crate Project?
To review hardware suitability, share the crate and joint drawings, panel material and thickness, clip engagement profile, latch positions, packed load, expected order quantity and delivery destination. We can help identify a suitable standard clip and discuss any component requirements that need to be confirmed before volume production.
Explore our Crate Clip product range, or contact sales@oriensmetal.com.
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