Efficient transport of beverage cartons
Beverage carton producers have designed cartons to be cuboid and lightweight in nature so that they are space- and transport efficient, thereby minimising fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
As cartons are only formed and filled on customer sites, most cartons are delivered in giant rolls of packaging material or boxes of flattened packages. Two trucks can carry around 1.2m empty one-litre cartons.
A truck loaded with filled cartons transports about 95% product and only 5% packaging (including secondary packaging and palettes). Fuel consumption, and consequently CO2 emissions, are therefore much reduced compared with the transportation of more space-consuming or heavier packages.