Reading Carton Data and Planning a Container

Garden Watering Fills on Volume Not Weight

A carton of 240 blister carded hose connectors weighs under ten kilos and takes about 0.05 to 0.065 CBM. A hose cart carton weighs a similar amount and takes 0.109 CBM for three pieces. In this category the container runs out of space long before it runs out of payload, which makes CBM the number that decides your landed cost.

What Each Published Figure Is For

Carton size gives you the stacking plan. Pieces per carton gives you the minimum practical order step for a SKU. CBM gives you the container fill. Net and gross weight give you the freight check and the difference between them tells you how much of what you are shipping is packaging.

Mixing Flat and Bulky Deliberately

Fittings, guns and timers are dense and flat. Reels, carts and large sprinklers are bulky and light. A container built only from the first group will hit weight limits with space left; one built only from the second wastes payload. Deciding the ratio at range review is far cheaper than discovering it at the port.

Check the Data Before You Commit

Every product page in this catalogue publishes the four figures above for 93 of 96 models. Three spray gun models are listed without confirmed packing data and are marked that way rather than estimated. Send us your intended mix and we will confirm it against the same numbers before production is scheduled.