Packing format
The 10 kg box, and the weight you trade away
Same base as the standard box, less fruit inside it. The pallet keeps its plan and loses net weight, so each kilo ends up carrying more packaging and a larger slice of the freight. What comes back in exchange is a lighter lift, faster rotation on a shelf and a smaller quantity for any one customer to take.
The figures
| Net weight | 10 kg |
|---|---|
| Base | 40 × 30 cm |
| Footprint | The same as the 15 kg box |
| Layers per pallet | Follows box height, confirmed with the packer |
| Net fruit per pallet | Below the same footprint filled with 15 kg boxes |
| To agree before quoting | Boxes per pallet and the pallet base |
What it changes on an order
You deliver in small drops
Shops, kitchens and market customers that take one or two boxes at a time lose less to slow rotation with a smaller unit. The fruit at the bottom of the box spends fewer days under the fruit above it, and the order arrives in a size the receiver actually sells.
Freight is a real part of your cost
A pallet of this format leaves the same floor area of the vehicle with less fruit on it. On a long road leg that difference is money, and it belongs in the comparison next to whatever the lighter box saves you in handling.
Somebody carries the box up a staircase
Weight per package is the part of a specification that the receiving end feels every single delivery. Ask who unloads and where the fruit ends up before you fix the format, because a cheaper pallet that nobody wants to handle is not cheaper.
What this note does not settle
- Nothing here confirms that we pack this format. Our packing options, minimum quantities and label capability are unconfirmed and need to be agreed with the grower before an order.
- How many of these boxes go on a pallet depends on the height of the box, not on its base, and that dimension is set by the packer. The same footprint does not guarantee the same layer count.
- This note compares formats, not prices. What the difference in packaging and freight adds up to per kilo has to come from a quotation against your own destination.
The same floor, and less fruit on it
With a base identical to the standard box, the pallet keeps its plan area and loses net weight. Freight is bought by space as much as by weight, so the same slot in a vehicle carries less fruit and each kilo picks up a larger share of the ride. Packaging moves the same way: more boxes for the same tonnage means more board, more labels and more handling.
How many fit on a pallet is not settled by the base. It is settled by the height of the box and by the height allowed for the finished load, which is a packhouse answer rather than a catalogue one. Ask for boxes per layer, layers per pallet and the overall height together, because any two of those three tell you nothing on their own.
Where the lighter box earns it back
The gain turns up at the far end of the chain. A shop taking two boxes instead of a pallet sells the fruit before it ages, a kitchen stores something a person can lift onto a shelf, and the oranges at the bottom spend fewer days under the weight of the ones above them. None of that appears on a freight invoice, and all of it is real money.
So the decision comes down to who pays the cost and who takes the benefit. A buyer paying for transport and selling in small quantities is trading one against the other, and the honest way to see it is with both figures side by side. Ask for a price per kilo in each format to the same destination rather than for the cheaper of the two.
Talk to the grower
Tell us the variety, the sizes and the delivery week you need. You get a delivered price and what we can commit to in writing, from the person who picks the fruit.
The grower handles enquiries. Response times are still to be confirmed.