UFP Packaging Unveils U-Loc 200: A Safer, Tool-Free Crating System

UFP Packaging introduces U-Loc 200, the first tool-free crate system, improving worker safety and simplifying high-value packaging assembly.

Author: Vidyesh Swar Published Date: 21 July 2025
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UFP Packaging Launches First Tool-Free Crate System

UFP Packaging is a projecting North American worker of industrial packing solutions, has introduced the U-Loc 200, which is an inventory tool-free crate arrangement. This advanced scheme features a patent-pending fastening that permits for meeting and dismantling without the use of nails or staple guns products that are accountable for around 37,000 emergency room calls each year.

The U-Loc 200 fastener is generated from flexible polyamide (nylon), comprises a built-in "finger grip" for relaxed request and exclusion. Its plan not only confirms the truth of the wreck but also improves security by eradicating the necessity for pneumatic and interfering tools. This makes it mainly appropriate for packing high-value and subtle items like glass products, medical equipment, and technology.

UFP Packaging Launches First Tool-Free Crate System

Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, UFP Packaging functions as a subordinate of UFP Industries, Inc., which is an important unit in the timber and wood products sector. With an industry cap of $6.31 billion, UFP Industries places itself as a complete breadwinner, finished its skills in metal construction, corrugated conversion, and labelling services. The U-Loc 200 fastening is finished from flexible polyamide (nylon) and features an in-built "finger grip" for easy hand submission and elimination. Its refillable strategy, armor-plated by anti-slip teeth and two extra hooks that attach to all expressions of the wreck corner, delivers the asset and stability desirable to substitute nails.

UFP Packaging is a top North American provider of engineering packing solutions and the major creator of wooden pallets and crates in the United States. With proficiency in metal fabrication, corrugated adaptation, and labelling, UFP Packaging proposes a full variety of packaging facilities, aligning itself as a complete worker.

UFP Packaging has extended significantly, becoming a leader in generating and transporting total packing solutions and a fast-growing commercial section of UFP Industries. It helps consumers global, from aerospace to agriculture, with total packing resolutions that include custom crates, corrugate, steel packaging, hard cases, pallets, on-site packaging, labels, and much more. It has devoted state-of-the-art, in-house testing services, comprising an ISTA- and ASTM-certified testing lab in Georgia that is one of the nation’s major providers of large package testing for firmness, rise, and influence, rotary motion, and vibration for goods up to 50,000 lbs. Its Michigan I.S.T.A. package testing laboratory is fortified to handle the whole thing from huge wood shipping crates and palettes to corrugated boxes and compound packaging resolutions.

Director of Product Development & Marketing at UFP Packaging, Robert Bilbrough, expressed,

"After decades without meaningful change, the U-Loc 200 marks the next major innovation in open-style crating one that finally puts worker safety first."

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