The TransPak Hayward facility will soon have extra space to work on their packaging strategies. The packaging management company is planning to expand their Hayward Global Design Center.
A press release said the expansion would have over 5,000 square feet of space for package testing and equipment. The machines used for testing can carry products that are up to 15,000 pounds. Pete Brown, director of TransPak Testing and Innovation, said in an email the expansion space and renovations will be ready by the end of January.
The Hayward facility is Transpak’s headquarters for packaging, global design and logistics.
“We have our own fleet of trucks especially for really high value goods,” Brown said in a phone interview. “When you are talking about things like data server racks, very high value commodities, we have our own trucks that we use to deliver those products to their end locations.”
TransPak is a packaging company that provides services to multiple industries, including tech, automotive and aerospace. They can package gigantic items using crates. Some examples of huge products include CT scanners, auto parts, large satellites and rocket engines. Brown said the data server racks they work with are 60 by 50 inches wide and weigh 6,000 to 7,000 pounds.
Transpak has a team of engineers who design and test the equipment in Hayward so it’s ready for transportation. That testing includes mimicking scenarios that a package goes through, including vibration, compression and shock. Brown said there’s an environmental chamber that can simulate very high temperature, high humidity, very cold and very dry environments.
The expansion would continue to do all these things but with bigger machines. “The AI world is shifting to bigger, heavier products, so our expansion is focusing to serve those types of industries, with very large vibration testing equipment, very large shock test equipment,” said Brown.
The company uses recyclable packaging materials. “One of the big focuses is on sustainability and reuse,” said Brown. “Once we deliver those products to a customer, we can bring those packaging materials back, we recycle them or refurbish them, and the customer can reuse them again and again. A lot of our packaging systems are designed or engineered to be used multiple times.”
Hayward has reaped the economic benefits of TransPak. Brown said companies in San Jose and Santa Clara are coming to their facility with their products for evaluation and package testing. Their services are literally a package deal—manufacturing the materials, designing the package, package testing and transportation.
