In cross-border trade within the sanitary ware industry, there’s one statistic that frightens buyers even more than the unit price: breakage rate. Ceramic sinks, as typical fragile and bulky items, undergo multiple impacts during the process from factory loading to final installation, including hoisting, sea transport turbulence, forklift operations, and last-mile delivery.
The industry average breakage rate is typically between 3% and 5%, but HanYu Sanitary Ware has successfully reduced this figure to below 0.5%. This is not due to luck, but rather a packaging science based on physical experiments.
1. ISTA 1A Standard: Simulating the “Worst-Case Scenario” in Reality
All our ceramic sink packaging development follows the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) ISTA 1A drop test standard. In HanYu’s laboratory, every new sink model undergoes a “hellish” challenge before mass production:
- 1 corner, 3 edges, 6 faces drop test: Simulating accidental collisions that occur during unloading.
- Height setting: Based on the ceramic sink weight (usually 15kg-30kg), the test height is set accordingly.
- Test purpose: To ensure that when the ceramic sink body is subjected to instantaneous impact force, the packaging structure can absorb more than [percentage] of the kinetic energy, protecting weak points such as the basin rim and overflow holes from stress cracking.
2. Three-Dimensional Protective Structure: More Than Just “Cardboard Box + Foam”
To achieve the 0.5% breakage rate standard, HanYu abandoned traditional thin-layer packaging and developed a multi-layer energy absorption system:
- Five-layer double-corrugated reinforced cardboard box: Using high-grammage cardboard with a burst strength of up to 12.5kgf/cm², ensuring that the box does not collapse in humid sea transport stacking environments. * Fully Enclosed EPE Foam Packaging: Compared to fragile polystyrene (EPS), the EPE foam we use offers excellent resilience and can absorb multiple impacts.
- Core Suspension Design: A buffer distance of at least 30mm is maintained between the key stress points of the basin (such as the bottom and edges) and the carton wall, creating a physically “suspended state.”
3. Customized Solutions for Different Transportation Channels
We understand that B2B customers have diverse logistics paths, so we provide differentiated packaging solutions:
- Full Container Load (FCL): Focusing on pallet reinforcement and container loading optimization.
- E-commerce Parcel: Reinforced packaging for express delivery processes such as UPS/FedEx, supporting Mail Order Packaging testing to ensure the safety of individual packages on automated sorting lines.
Why do global buyers trust HanYu?
HanYu Sanitary Ware, établie en 2002, is a seasoned ceramic sink manufacturer, specializing in washbasins. Over the past 20 years, we have not only refined our exquisite ceramic craftsmanship but also led the industry in supply chain risk management.
- Global Market Validation: Our ceramic sink products have gained significant market share in high-standard markets such as Corée du Sud, Brésil, Pays-Bas et Singapour, and we have been a long-term stable supplier to top local sanitary ware brands.
- In-depth OEM/ODM Capabilities: Whether you need engineering basins that meet North American CUPC certification or minimalist European countertop basins, we can provide a full range of services from 3D modeling and rapid mold development to rigorous packaging testing.
- Flexible Customization Solutions: We understand that every sanitary ware project and retail brand has unique needs. HanYu is committed to helping customers gain a dual advantage in price and quality through flexible customized solutions in the fierce market competition.
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If you are tired of dealing with expensive shipping damage and are looking for a supplier that can provide “delivery certainty,” HanYu is your best choice.
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