RECENT AND Past Projects
   
Industrial Crating and Packing, Inc. was contracted to export pack 126'
lengths of standing seam aluminum roofing panels for transportation to a remote
job site in Alaska. Engineered pre-stressed unitized containers were
required to insure that the critical elements of protection and portability were
provided. The containers arrived at their destination intact, their
contents ready for immediate installation.
 In March 1991, the Boeing Company contacted Industrial Crating & Packing,
Inc. about a special packing job - crating an airplane. But not just any
airplane - a rare, perfectly restored 1936 Junkers JU 52. "Aunty Ju", as
she is affectionately known, is the sentimental "Pride of the Fleet" of
Lufthansa Airlines, the German national flag carrier and one of the Boeing
Company's most important customers. She had just completed her first
promotional tour of North America and needed to be crated for the long journey
home.
 A wood box was needed - and needed fast. A wood box the size of a
small
two story house, strong enough to have a four ton airplane parked in its living
room, able to be hoisted a hundred feet in the air and withstand the rigors of
being shipped halfway around the world. Two weeks later, Aunty Ju was
safely packed in her "Portable Hanger" aboard a container ship bound for
Hamburg, Germany.
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