Warehouse safety programs tend to focus on the obvious risks: lifting heavy cartons, forklift traffic, slips on the floor. The packing station rarely gets the same attention. Yet it is where the same motions are repeated hundreds of times a day, every day. Reach, pull, cut, press, repeat. Done badly, that sequence wears people down quietly. Done well, it is fast and, mostly, unremarkable — w...
Take a recycled cardboard box, seal it up, and then peel off the tape an hour later. Some tapes will tear the paper fibers, leaving behind visible damage, while others come off cleanly—as if they had never been applied at all. Given the same batch of cardboard boxes, which type of tape avoids this issue of failing to adhere properly? Short version: Test the adhesion of various tapes when use...
Water-activated kraft tape only does its job once it is activated with water and cut to length, so the dispenser is the part that decides how well your seal holds. We make two types of dispensers: the KN-266 manual dispenser and the KN-366Hi electric dispenser. They work on the same water-activation principle, but they are built for very different packing stations. This guide compares them on the ...