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Steel, aluminum, wood, plastic and corrugated packaging each offer different advantages. Learn how product weight, reuse, freight, protection and lifecycle cost should influence your industrial packaging material selection.
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Basin Industries will exhibit at Booth #3 at the 2026 Automotive Packaging Summit in Greenville, SC. Meet our team and learn about our steel, aluminum and wood capabilities for automotive packaging and material handling.
Basin Industries is accelerating its national growth strategy under EVP of Corporate Development James Fox, with a focus on acquiring strong industrial packaging, material handling and manufacturing businesses across the United States.
If you work in shipping, manufacturing, or procurement, you've probably heard "skid" and "pallet" used interchangeably — sometimes even by the same person in the same sentence. In everyday conversation, that's usually fine. But when you're specifying packaging for a heavy, oversized or irregularly shaped load, the difference matters.

