Six Steps to Safe Shipment

Helpful Resources

Primary Packing and Mount-making

CCI Technical Bulletin No. 14 — Working with Polyethylene Foam and Fluted Plastic Sheet by Carl Schlichting. ISBN 0-662-61042-3

Mount-making for Museum Objects, Second Edition  by Robert Barclay, André Bergeron, and Carole Dignard.
ISBN 0-662-18843-0 

Cushion Design

Corner Pads for Double Case Packages — Quickly make high-performance corner pads using a simple table. Available on the CCI Web site. 

PadCAD . A 30-day trial version of PadCAD, a computer program, can be downloaded from the CCI Web site. See http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/ for some packaging-related material.

PadCAD User Manual — Contains information on shipping hazards and practical aspects of protective cushion design.

 

Packing and Transport of Paintings

Art in Transit: Studies in the Transport of Paintings edited by M.F. Mecklenburg (Preprints for the International Conference on the Packing and Transportation of Paintings Sept 1991, London UK). Available in electronic format (pdf file) by request.

CCI Notes 10/10 — Backing Boards for Paintings on Canvas.

CCI Notes 10/15 — Paintings: Considerations Prior to Travel.

CCI Notes 10/16 — Wrapping a Painting.

 

Links of Interest

APA, the Engineered Wood Association — an informative materials handling guide that includes practical information and step-by-step instructions for making large wooden shipping containers.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency — regulations for wood products.

CCI Newsletter No. 22 — packaging articles and some early case studies.

Packing, Art handling & Crating Information Network (PACIN) — information on crating and packing, material lists, publications.

Wooden crates and crating standards.