Every pallet of packaging paper in your building was ordered against a forecast someone made weeks ago. By the time it lands, the order profile has moved. Peak came early. A client changed a spec. A promotion pulled demand forward.
High-volume operations pay for that gap with their dock doors, receiving trucks full of consumable material instead of sellable goods. The WaveKraft® On-Demand Production System closes it by producing packaging on your floor, as you need it.
Produce what you need. When you need it.
The system runs on paper rolls and produces finished packaging in your facility, on site or near site. Depending on configuration, WaveKraft On-Demand turns out 2,000 insulation panels per hour or 1,200 protective mailers per hour. A roll change takes about three minutes.
More floor. Less material.
Paper rolls are dense. Finished packaging is mostly air. One truckload of paper rolls produces 10 trucks worth of finished WaveKraft insulation products. You can reclaim your floorspace, skip the middle mile, and reduce finished packaging SKUs.
WebstaurantStore, one of the largest online suppliers of foodservice equipment, deployed the system on site to replace thick denim insulation that was consuming dock time with daily deliveries and storage space. The move reduced insulation storage needs by 80%.
Switching to WaveKraft transformed our operations. In addition to the immediate transformation the equipment provided, it has matched our ROI expectations in the first quarter of operations.
Distribution Center General Manager, Cold Chain, WebstaurantStore
More flexibility. Less inventory.
With WaveKraft, you can change packaging configurations at the machine, rather than through procurement. A single button controls product thickness and dimensions, delivering instant customization without added complexity. No tooling changes, no new purchase orders.
WebstaurantStore qualified three seasonal SKUs and now switches between summer and winter panel configurations on demand.
Fewer steps. More throughput.
Nothing has to be unpacked, counted, staged, or assembled before it can be used. Packaging is produced at the point of pack-out. Right-sized output reduces void fill and dimensional weight on every parcel.
Paper on the outside. Paper on the inside.
WaveKraft On-Demand now produces TemperPack's latest innovation, the WaveKraft Padded Mailer. It's built for exactly the products that break most often and cost the most to re-ship: cosmetics, vitamins and supplements, small electronics, and personal care items. It passes testing against ISTA® 6 Amazon Overbox protocols and delivers up to 45% better shock absorption than a plastic bubble mailer.
These products often ship in boxes that are too large for them, with air pillows or kraft paper filling the empty space. That's another material to buy, store, and stage at the pack station. The WaveKraft Padded Mailer builds protection into the wall instead.
One material. One grab. No void-fill step.
For 3PLs and large brands running high volume, that efficiency adds up. At a facility shipping 5,000 orders a day, eliminating box assembly alone returns roughly 125 labor hours daily. Pack stations move faster. Warehouses can also replace a dozen box sizes with two or three mailer sizes that cover a broad range of products.
Best yet, the WaveKraft Padded Mailer is paper-based, with no plastic bubbles, glue dots, or films. It carries the Widely Recyclable label from How2Recycle® and uses paper sourced from SFI-certified mills, including 25% recycled content. No separate recycling stream or complicated instructions for your customer to follow.
Make it. Don’t store it.
Protective packaging has always been treated as inventory: forecast it, buy it, store it, and hope you guessed right. At scale, it does not have to be. It can be capacity you turn on when the orders arrive.
See what the WaveKraft On-Demand Production System would look like on your floor.
