Automotive Packaging
The parts business is a margin game. A scratched housing, a rusted machined face or a bin of mixed parts that arrives rattling is money straight off the invoice, and it happens one cheap packaging decision at a time.
CMTP packs Australia’s automotive trade: parts manufacturers shipping to distributors, remanufacturers sending engines and gearboxes back into the market, and exporters getting parts offshore in condition to sell. Bins, crates, cartons and corrosion protection, designed for the part and made at the nearest of eleven sites.
Fifty years of automotive packaging, made in Australia
CMTP started in a workshop in Colac, Victoria in 1976. It is still family owned and still run by the family that started it. Around 250 people across eleven manufacturing sites in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania now make car parts packaging for the automotive supply chain: parts manufacturers, remanufacturers and exporters.
Most of the automotive supply chain runs on packaging somebody bought in and marked up, so the lead time you are quoted belongs to a third party. We make what you order on our own equipment, at the site nearest your dock. Short freight leg, a delivery date that holds, and one specification across every plant you run rather than a slightly different parts bin at each one.
Auto parts packaging comes from the one place: flat-pack parts bins, automotive crates, cartons, dunnage and corrosion protection for machined faces. Returnable packaging is designed to survive the loop rather than one trip, and export car parts get ISPM 15 stamped timber with VCI protection sized to the voyage. Design and engineering sits in house, so we measure the part, design around it and prototype off tool before a production run. ISO 9001 at Colac and Dandenong plus a 95 per cent DIFOT target is what keeps automotive logistics predictable.
what goes wrong with automotive packaging
Bare metal and machined surfaces start corroding the moment they meet humid air, and a sea freight container is a month of humid air. A part that arrives with surface rust on a machined face isn’t a part anymore, it’s a warranty conversation.
Parts shipped loose in oversized bins spend the whole trip working on each other. Scratches, chips and bent tabs don’t show up on the packing list, they show up at the customer’s goods-in bench, one rejected line at a time.
On high-volume, low-value parts, packaging is a line item that competes directly with margin. Overbuilt packaging wastes money on every unit. Underbuilt packaging wastes more when the claims come in. Most operations are guessing at where the line sits.
How CMTP solves them
VCI bags, foil barriers and corrosion inhibitor systems sized to the part and the journey, so machined surfaces come out of the box the way they went in. Standard practice for our export automotive work, available on every domestic run too.
Our bulk bins were built with automotive parts in mind: composite cardboard and timber construction, three standard models that stack neatly in containers, supplied flat-pack. Corflute and cardboard dunnage systems keep parts separated so they stop working on each other in transit.
Our design and engineering team sizes packaging to the part and the freight lane, then prototypes it before production. Flat-pack bins cut the cost of storing and freighting your own packaging, and bins that double as storage take a handling step out entirely. The goal is simple: the cheapest packaging that never generates a claim.
Products built for wine and beverage
Each links to its product page:
Bulk bins
composite parts bins in three standard models, flat-pack, container-efficient stacking
Corrosion protection packaging
VCI bags, foil barriers and inhibitors for machined and bare metal parts
Wooden cases and crates
engineered crates for engines, gearboxes and heavy single units
Cardboard cartons and boxes
transit cartons sized to the part
ISPM 15 certified export pallets
stamped and compliant for parts heading offshore
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ISO 9001 Certified - Colac -
ISO 9001 Certified - Dandenong
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ISPM 15 Certified -
HACCP Certified
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Related Services
Design & Engineering
parts packaging designed and prototyped before production, we’ve done auto parts for years
Logistics & Delivery
scheduled bin and packaging supply against a 95 per cent DIFOT target
Contract Packaging
our teams pack at your facility when volume spikes
Machinery Packing
engineered crating when workshop or production equipment has to move
Australia-wide Service
With teams across 11 manufacturing facilities across Australia, we’re able to reach your location quickly and provide the service you need on time.
Victoria
Victoria
Colac – Head Office
Derrimut
Dandenong South
Mildura
New South Wales
New South Wales
Albury
Glendenning
Queensland
Queensland
Clontarf
Brendale
South Australia
South Australia
Adelaide
Tasmania
Tasmania
Branxholm
Scottsdale
Frequently Asked Questions
What bins do you make for automotive parts?
Composite bulk bins built with parts in mind, in three standard models that stack neatly in shipping containers, supplied flat-pack so empty bins don’t eat your floor space. Custom sizes are part of the design service.
How do I stop parts rusting in transit?
Vapour corrosion inhibitor (VCI) bags are the workhorse: the part is sealed with a vapour that stops oxidation without coating the surface. For longer trips and sea freight, foil barriers and inhibitor systems go around that. Matched properly to the journey, machined parts arrive the way they left.
Can you create engines and gearboxes?
Yes. Heavy single units travel in engineered crates built for the weight and secured so the unit can’t move inside. Remanufacturers use them for the trip out and the core coming back.
Can automotive packaging be export compliant?
Yes. All export timber is ISPM 15 compliant and individually stamped, with corrosion protection matched to the sea leg. Parts arrive cleared and sellable.
How do we keep packaging cost per part down?
Stop guessing. A measure-up and a prototype tell you exactly how much packaging the part needs and no more. Add flat-pack bins that cost less to store and freight, and bins that double as storage at the far end, and the per-part cost usually lands under what off-the-shelf was costing.
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