Wooden Crates & Custom Wood Packaging: Solutions for Ontario's Industrial Freight

Some freight is simply too valuable, fragile, or oversized for a standard pallet. Custom wooden crates and engineered wood packaging from Serv-U-Pallets Inc. provide the protection your most demanding shipments require.

When Standard Pallets Are Not Enough

Certain products and freight categories demand far more protection than a flat wooden platform can provide. Aerospace components, precision machinery, automotive tooling, glass panels, and high-value electronics all require enclosure, cushioning, and structural support that a standard pallet cannot offer. Custom wooden crating provides four-sided or six-sided protection against impact, moisture, and shifting during transport.

Types of Custom Wood Packaging We Build

Serv-U-Pallets Inc. designs and builds a wide range of custom wood packaging solutions: open-top crates for crane-loaded heavy equipment, fully enclosed export crates with internal bracing, cleated plywood paneling for fragile machinery, skid-mounted frames for large industrial components, and collared pallet assemblies for controlled goods. Each design is engineered to your load weight, dimensions, and transport mode.

ISPM-15 Compliance for Export Crates

All wooden packaging in international shipments must comply with ISPM-15. We build export-compliant crates using heat-treated lumber stamped with the IPPC certification mark. Whether your shipment is heading to the United States, Europe, or Asia-Pacific, we ensure your wood packaging meets every destination country's phytosanitary requirements.

Engineering Your Crate: What We Need to Know

To quote a custom wood crate, we need: the dimensions of the product to be enclosed, its weight and center of gravity, the transport mode (truck, ship, air), handling requirements (crane points, forklift pockets), and destination (domestic or international). With this information, we engineer a crate that is strong enough to protect the product without being unnecessarily heavy — which keeps freight costs down.

Fast Turnaround for Ontario Manufacturers

We know that production schedules don't wait. Our custom wood packaging fabrication team serves Ontario manufacturers and exporters with fast turnaround, typically 3–7 business days for standard custom crate designs. For repeat orders of the same design, we maintain templates and cutting lists to turn around reorders faster. Contact us from anywhere in the GTA for a fast quote.