Crate Pros Introduction
This video is an overview of Crate Pros, a logistics solution provider focused on crating and shipping services for difficult-to-ship items. Serving multiple industries including industrial manufacturing, medical, automotive, and aerospace/defense. Crate Pros supports customers throughout the Southeast US from their current facilities in Nashville, TN and Huntsville, AL.
Automotive Packaging Learning
The PackagingSchool.com visits Crate Pros in Chattanooga, Tennessee to learn about automotive crating and packaging design from the Crate Pros’ Team (Tim Slicker & Joshua Shaw) as well as EPE Foam manufacturer, ARPlank Direct (Chris Harrod). In this episode, you will learn how Crate Pros develops protective packaging solutions based on customer needs and how custom-fabricated foam cushioning is used to pad and protect Class A parts from OEM and Tier 1 Automotive Manufacturers like VW and others.
Oversized Crates for Defense and Space
Our nation’s space and defense manufacturers have a crucial need to protect their most sensitive equipment and components to ensure they work properly when lives are at risk. Check out some our recent work on this 20′ x 20′ x 10′ Tall crate and how we safely shipped this oversizeload to our customer. Whether your freight is heavy, fragile, oversized, high-value, or export, Crate Pros has you covered!
High Volume Mil-Spec Missile Crate Factory Overview
This video showcases Crate Pros’ Huntsville, AL-area crate manufacturing facility that produces over 2,000 missile crates per month in support of the US Department of Defense and our allies. From manufacturing product line validation (PLV) to first article inspection (FAI) to UN product testing, Crate Pros demonstrates its capability to directly support the US Government as a prime contractor in support of critical packaging components for our nation and allies’ warfighters.
Welcome to Crate Pros
A brief introduction to Crate Pros, their capabilities, and how they are connecting individuals and companies with their freight all across the world!
Crate Pros Company Overview
Crate Pros General Manager, Tim Slicker provides a company overview to a live audience as a part of a conference for military entrepreneurs called the Bunker Labs Muster. Slicker’s overview is focused on the types of freight on which Crate Pros targets called “difficult to ship,” including items that are heavy, oversized, fragile, high-value, and export. For each of these categories, an example project is provided to help the audience understand how Crate Pros has enabled its customers in solving their most challenging logistics issues.
Project Thunder Mil-Spec Crating
Project Thunder Mil-Spec Crating In October 2019 Crate Pros completed a collaborative project in support of a federal government prime contractor. Our mission was to construct crates and protective packaging for sensitive equipment used on aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms in support of our nation’s armed services. This video highlights some of the finished custom crates and subcomponents we produced in support of our customer.
Project Geronimo - Tier 1 Auto Parts Manufacturer
In September 2019 Crate Pros completed a large-scale production crating project in support of an international auto parts manufacturer. From design to construction to JIT delivery of the crates on a schedule coordinated with the manufacturer’s production, the Crate Pros team successfully completed this project with 100% on-time delivery.
Project Canvas All Pro Crating for All Pro Athletes
Crate Pros, Nashville’s premier crating and shipping company, showcases “Project Canvas,” where they were chosen to crate portraits of several elite athletes to include, Patrick Mahomes, Connor McDavid, and Von Miller. This short video illustrates the amazing portraits of each athlete as well as the professional packaging used to protect these fine art pieces for shipment all over the U.S. and Canada.