Custom Everything:
At Custom Crating and Logistics, we offer pickup and delivery service, as well as unbeatable customer service from start to finish—we pick up your item, crate it and ship it—or deliver it ourselves. Now, just what else do you need from your crating and packing company?

We offer the following:

• Custom crating, platforms, pallets and corrugated cartons to meet all needs.
• Careful hand packing of delicate breakable items like china, laboratory glassware, etc.
• Steel banding, shock mounting, foam packing, shrink wrapping, vapor barriors, desiccants -  On site rigging and removal of machines and equipment.
• General freight forwarding:  domestic and international, long haul, ocean and airfreight.
• Local trucking pickup and delivery service. Hot shot pickup and deliveries through the upper Midwestern United States.
• Comprehensive optional insurance coverage for domestic and international shippers through a major Inland Marine Insurance Co.
• Certification of Heat Treatment of wooden crates and packing materials according to the new IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) standards now including 134 countries. All industrial nations are members.

All wooden packing material must be heat treated at the core of each piece of wood to 56 deg Celsius or 140 deg Fahrenheit for a minimum of 30 minutes to stop the infection of exotic wood pests from other countries.

We are certified by the MFPA, one of 11  US agencies to affix the "bug stamp"  on our products.  Our IPPC approved no. is US-0037 (HT MFPA)

Alternative non-wood packing materials, boxes and crates are also available that are fully compliant with the new international APHIS standards. These can also be "Certified as being in compliance with IPPC regulations"

Thinscreen Television Export Crating

JUST THINK OF US AS AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE "MAILBOXES ETC."

• Serving the Air & Ocean Export Community of Northern Illinois around O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and the Port of Chicago. (Member CBFFFAC)
• Serving Chicago land manufacturing, distribution, transportation  and commercial industries of all kinds.
• Serving individuals with shipments of furniture, antiques, heirlooms, etc. including packing, crating, insuring and shipping.

Assist auction purchasers get new purchased assets picked up from the  auction site, rigged, packed, crated and shipped to the purchaser in a timely manner including Chicagoland and regional direct trucking service.

We are positioned to service the international freight forwarding community of the greater O'Hare area. We are located within the warehouse of a substantial international freight forwarder and have the ability to receive, crate and ship to our other freight forwarding customers within a 24 to 48 hour turnaround time and service these customers with our own dock high truck. If you need something crated for a customer, we are ready, willing and able -- and fast.

APHIS heat treatment of wooden packing materials in accordance with the new international regulations.

We are familiar with the new international APHIS standards requiring heat treating of crates and wooden packing materials as an international effort to control wood pests and insects.  Over the  next few  years many of the world's trading countries will require compliance with APHIS. We can provide heat treatment of crates and packing materials and provide certifications of heat treatment and USDA certification as part of our service to our customers. Certain countries, notably Australia and the People's Republic of China have very strict regulations.  We inventory heat treated pallets and platforms and compliant HT/KD wood.

We can also supply composite crates, pallets and packaging materials made out of NON-wood products for smaller to medium size export crates. This allows us to not have to lose several days getting full USDA certification in order to be APHIS compliant. In some situations, using "non-wood" packaging materials actually results in lighter crates that could significantly lower airfreight cost.

Serving individuals by picking up, packing, crating and shipping valuable family items of all kinds including furniture, antiques and heirlooms, equipment, etc.

Assist auction purchasers get new purchased assets promptly picked up from the  auction site, rigged, packed, crated and shipped to the purchaser

We serve select auction houses and other re-sellers by picking up and removing assets, packing, crating and shipping auction goods or remarket equipment of all kinds to the new owners.If you have goods to be moved,  packed, crated and shipped from an auction or purchase of used equipment, please contact us to take care of this for you. We can pickup anywhere in the Chicago area or even in the region, depending on the economics of the job. We can also pack and store for short to intermediate periods if necessary at slight additional cost.

Short and medium run Picking, Sorting and Packing Projects of all kinds. Please contact us for quotes in providing special picking, sorting, packing and repacking services of any kind.

Contact us  today for a quote on getting your valuable freight picked up, packed, crated and shipped. You won't get a better price or faster service anywhere else!

Please call  630.787.6120 and if the lines are busy, please leave a detailed message and we will get right back to you to discuss your shipping requirements. You can also contact us by fax at 630.595.7664 and by email at cratingchicago@aol.com