The most important part of a dunnage project is a design solution that works. Our design engineers are creative, innovative, and draw upon many years of experience in the custom returnable packaging industry. Our name is Dunnage Engineering, and we feel that our ability to develop and engineer successful dunnage solutions has been the key to our company’s success.

Our design department employs the latest CAD solid modeling software and equipment and we are able to accept many types of CAD data from our customers. We can design dunnage components either by using CAD data of the part to be packaged or by designing the dunnage around a physical part.

Prototypes for injection molded parts can be produced in a number of methods depending on the design complexity, part size and intended production material choice. These days, injection molded parts are usually prototyped using 3D printing processes and those materials can be either rigid plastic or softer elastomer type depending on the application. Some larger prototypes are better suited to be made by CNC machining of solid plastic or modeling board.

Prototypes for our Vinyl Coated Steel and Formed Steel Dunnage Bar product lines are produced in our prototype building department using production materials and methods.