Nesting comes from geometry — a taper, a step, or a shape that lets one unit drop into the next. It changes the cost of the empty leg: storage, return freight and yard space all shrink when a stack of empties is a fraction of the height of the same number of full units.
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What is nestable packaging?
Packaging shaped so empties take a fraction of the space fulls do.
LearnHow do empty containers affect freight cost?
Rigid packaging is efficient in one direction. The other direction is where the money leaks.
TermCollapsible
Folds down flat or into a smaller form when empty.
TermConical drum
A tapered steel drum shaped so empty units nest inside each other.
TermPallet utilization
How much of the pallet footprint and legal height a load actually uses.
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