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When you organize your shipment from China, it is essential to know each package’s weight and size. You want to maximize the space of the container and put as many goods as possible.
However, the same and weight of the goods can only be known before the shipment. But it is essential to get this information because your shipping forwarder needs the weight and volume of your goods to give the shipping cost.
So, how can you know the data?
At Inovatec Machinery, we have three types of goods: mass finishing machine, tumbling media, and polishing compound. Machine and compound we packed in a wooden box, and tumbling media we packed in the pallets.
Below we explain how to calculate the size and weight of each packing.
1. Mass Finishing Machine Size and Weight:
When you look at our product catalog (you can download it from the homepage), you find each model’s size and weight. However, this data does not include the wooden box.
VB(B) Technical information
For example, VBS(B)400 machine, A=1410mm, H=1040mm, so the size is 1410x1410x1040 (LxWxH). Weight is 850kg without wooden box.
So the size of the wooden box is 1510x1510x1240 (LxWxH). The weight of the wooden box we can add 40-160kg depending on the machine size. This VBS(B)400 machine is a medium-sized machine to add the 80kg weight of the wooden box.
- Gross Weight: 930kg
- Net Weight: 850kg
- Size: 1510x1510x1240mm3
- Volume: 2.83 CBM, usually shipping forwarder charge cost based on 3.0 CBM
2. Tumbling Media Size and Weight
Tumbling media is packed into a wooden pallet. Usually, 1000kg or 2000lbs packed into one pallet. Our standard wooden pallet size 1100mm x 1100mm x 200mm and weight 20kg.
Because of the specific gravity of ceramic media, plastic media, and steel media are different; they have a different volume with the same weight. Therefore, we make a table below for easy understanding.
| Type of media | Weight | Size | Volume |
| (kg) | (mm) | (CBM) | |
| Ceramic Media | 1020 | 1100x1100x800 | 1.0 |
| Plastic Media | 1020 | 1100x1100x1200 | 1.50 |
| Steel Media | 1020 | 1100x1100x500 | 0.60 |
Please remember the above table is for general information. The exact data also affected by media size and shape.
3. Polishing Compound Size and Weight
The polishing compound we packed in 25kg or 50kg small barrels. This size user can easily handle. We also have a 200kg big barrel and 1000kg IBC box for significant users.
Our standard packaging is 500kg per wooden box for the polishing compound with the size 1200x1200x700 mm. The weight of the wooden box is 60kg.
4. Size of the container
The most used container types are 20 feet standard container and 40 feet standard container. Sometimes, we will use a 40 feet high cube container for some unique production line system.
| Container type | Width | Inner Length | Height | Max Payload | Volume |
| 20 feet standard | 5935 mm | 7′ 9.75″ = 2383 mm | 48325 lbs = 21920 kg | ||
| 40 feet standard | 7′ 5.625″ = 2352 mm | 39′ 5.25″= 12022 mm | 7′ 10.25″ = 2395 mm | 58600 lbs = 26580 kg | 2392 cu. ft. = 67.7 m3 |
| 40 feet high cube | 7′ 8.5″ = 2352 mm | 39′ 3.25″= 12022 mm | 8′ 10.25″ = 2700 mm | 58050 lbs = 26330 kg | 2697 cu. ft. = 76.4 m3 |
The table shows the standard container size and load
5. The important thing to know when you organize the product loading
- First, organize machine space; if you don’t have enough media space, you can put them in bulk bags (loose bags).
- If you still need more space, you can put as many media bag into the vibratory finishing machine bowl.
- The compound is not recommended to put in bulk. You can set the compound on top of the media pallet. But never put anything on top of the compound box.
- Machine box can put on top of the media pallets. But media pallets cannot put on top of the machine box.
- You can put media pallets on top of each other. Usually, we put two layers of tumbling media pallets.
- An FCL (full container loading) can save you a lot cost than an LCL shipment. If you don’t have enough product to import from one supplier, you can combine the shipment from several suppliers and ship in one container.
- If the machine is too big to put into the container, we can also disassemble it into several pieces
6. Conclusion
In this article, we discussed how to calculate each packaging’s size and weight when you organize your shipment.
You can estimate the data before talking with the shipping agent.
Moreover, you can add some urgent items or remove some other items to the next shipment.
In short, shipment organization is a challenging task that needs to consider cost, weight, volume, and timing, then make an optimal choice.
If you have any difficulty in organizing the shipment, please feel free to contact us.
