Packaging Information
This page answers one question: how your order is packed, and why the packing is built around the border rather than around the truck.
The part most people worry about
Corner protection, film, foam, edge board, a crate where a crate is needed. That is the ordinary half and every exporter does it. Cabinets ship assembled unless the drawings say otherwise, doors and drawer fronts fitted, hardware installed, so the packing has to hold a finished face and not just a box.
The part that actually stops containers
Furniture from China gets inspected on arrival in most of the markets we ship to, and the inspection is not about whether the carton is strong. It is about biosecurity. Three requirements decide whether a container is released or held.
No live quarantine pests in or on the goods. This is why the goods are cleaned before they are wrapped, not after.
Packaging that prevents re-infestation after treatment. Plastic film, a six-sided timber case, or a sealed container all satisfy this. An open pallet with a tarpaulin does not.
No contamination. Soil, bark, leaves, seeds, insect nests. The tolerance is very small, in the order of a hundredth of a percent by weight, so in practice it means the goods and the container floor are clean, not nearly clean.
Timber packaging has its own rule
Any wooden pallet, case or dunnage has to be heat treated or fumigated under ISPM 15 and carry the stamp. This is separate from the goods themselves and it is where a lot of otherwise clean shipments come unstuck, because the crate was made up at the last minute from whatever timber was on hand.
The twenty-one day clock nobody mentions
Where treatment is required, the goods have to be packed, loaded and shipped within 21 days of that treatment. Past that window the treatment counts as not done, and it has to be redone. That is why we do not treat early and hold stock waiting for a sailing, and it is one of the reasons the packing date and the sailing date get planned together rather than separately.
If your order is going to sit somewhere between the factory and the vessel, tell us before we pack. It changes the sequence. The shipping page covers how the sailing side is planned.
What we are not going to over-claim
Seasonal measures exist in some markets for particular pests. In New Zealand, for example, the brown marmorated stink bug measures cover vehicles, machinery and parts from listed countries, and sea containers out of Italy. Cabinetry from China is not in either category. We mention it because buyers hear about these measures and reasonably ask, and the answer is that they do not apply here, not that we have some special exemption.
What you get with the shipment
A packing list showing each carton or crate, what is in it, and the dimensions and weight, so your installer can find the right box without opening six of them. Where treatment applies, the treatment evidence travels with the documents.
Cartons are marked with the item and the room or run they belong to. On a whole-house order this matters more than the packing itself, because everything arrives at once and gets stacked in a garage. The installation page picks up from there.
If your port or your customs broker has a requirement we should build into the packing, send it before production finishes rather than after. Write to thomas@moyisihome.com.