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Packaging & Crating Marble Columns

The Romans did it with manpower. We do it with forklifts and foam.  Either way, moving marble is a challenge.  It is inherently fragile and is highly susceptible to cracking.  As with other stone materials, it can withstand tremendous compressive forces, but can break...

Fire Breathing Dragon

Craters & Freighters of New York ships oversized Fire Breathing Dragon at FAO Schwartz in New York City. OK, maybe it didn't breath fire, but this wasn't your average stuffed animal. This dragon from FAO -Schwartz had a 12' wingspan! She stood proudly over the...

Exporting Bugs?

Do crates and pallets need to be certified "Bug Free" before shipping internationally? Yes, and the most common time shippers first find out about this is just before their shipment is ready to go out. Here's how it goes. They have their item crated and ready to go. A...

Rutgers University Race Car Sponsorship

A couple of months ago, we were contacted by an engineering student of Rutgers University in need of shipping a race car they built to California for an upcoming competition.  At first glance, I didn't know what the project would entail, so we decided to meet a couple...

How do You Crate and Ship a 600 lb. Baseball Player?

The statue titled "Mighty Casey" has been on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York since 1987.  The bronze statue, inspired by the 1888 Ernest Thayer poem "Casey at the Bat", stands nearly 7 feet tall and weighs 600 pounds.  The statue...

Custom Packing Neon Trees for Belvedere Vodka

Neon signs are made with an array of vacuum tubes with designs limited only by the signmakers' imagination. The physical properties of the glass, along with the intricate twists and turns of the design, make neon signs one of the more challenging items we are...

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