Applications Of Transport Cushioning Materials

Fragile Items Transportation: Items such as glassware, ceramics, lamps, and precision instruments are easily damaged during handling or transportation due to collisions or drops. Cushioning materials effectively absorb impact energy.

Electronic Product Packaging: Products sensitive to static electricity and vibration, such as semiconductors, LCD panels, mobile phones, and computers, are often protected using materials like anti-static pearl cotton and honeycomb cardboard.

Medical Equipment Transportation: High-value medical instruments such as CT scanners and ultrasound equipment require strict shock absorption. Honeycomb cardboard boxes with customized linings can attenuate vibration to a safe threshold, while avoiding the fumigation and quarantine issues associated with wooden packaging.

Household Appliances and Heavy Machinery: Items weighing 50–200 kg, such as refrigerators, washing machines, and engine parts, are stacked and transported with protection using high-compression-strength honeycomb cardboard boxes (compression strength up to 14 kgf/cm²) or EPE/EPP foam.

E-commerce and Express Logistics: Lightweight materials such as air column bags, EPE pearl cotton, and cushioning paper strips are widely used for package filling to prevent parcels from colliding or being squeezed during sorting.

Industrial Conveyor System Protection: In mines, cement plants, ports, and other scenarios, mining buffer beds/buffer strips (composed of UHMW-PE + rubber) are used in the material drop area of ​​belt conveyors to absorb the impact of falling materials and prevent the conveyor belt from tearing or deviating.

Loading Platform Protection: Buffer pads (platform anti-collision rubber) are installed at docks and warehouse loading and unloading points. Made of rubber or polyurethane, they absorb the impact energy of trucks and protect the platform structure.

Cold Chain Logistics and Refrigeration Equipment: Rigid polyurethane foam (RPUF) combines insulation and cushioning functions and is used for internal fixation and shock absorption in refrigerators and refrigerated trucks.