Semiconductor Packaging for High-Value Equipment
Semiconductor equipment is expensive, complex, and often sensitive to shock, vibration, moisture, and rough handling. A standard shipping box may protect the outside of the equipment – but it may not provide the protection your equipment needs inside.
FCA Packaging designs custom semiconductor packaging around your equipment, transportation requirements, and supply chain.
From custom boxes and skids to protective foam, blocking, bracing, and export packaging, we help semiconductor manufacturers protect valuable equipment from the factory floor to its final destination.
When Standard Packaging Isn’t Enough
Semiconductor equipment can be difficult to ship because of its:
Semiconductor Packaging That Solves Real Shipping Problems
- Concerned About Shock and Impact?
Forklift handling, loading, unloading, and transportation can expose equipment to sudden impacts.
Our approach:
Custom blocking, bracing, cushioning, and structural packaging help secure equipment and manage movement during transportation.
- Worried About Vibration?
Truck, air, and ocean transportation can expose sensitive equipment to continuous vibration.
Our approach:
FCA can incorporate engineered cushioning and internal supports designed around the equipment and its transportation environment.
- Need Protection From Moisture?
International shipments and long transit times can expose equipment to changing environmental conditions.
Our approach:
Depending on the application, packaging can incorporate moisture barriers, protective covers, and other environmental protection.
- Difficult to Move or Handle?
Large semiconductor equipment may require forklifts, cranes, or other heavy-lift equipment.
Our approach:
Custom boxes and skids can be designed around lifting points, forklift access, equipment weight, and handling requirements.
Custom Packaging for Semiconductor Equipment
FCA provides packaging solutions for a wide range of semiconductor-related equipment and components.
A Semiconductor Packaging Process Built Around Your Equipment
The right packaging starts with understanding the product and how it will move through the supply chain.
01
Understand
We review equipment dimensions, weight, sensitive areas, handling requirements, and shipping conditions.
02
Design
Our engineers develop the box, skid, foam, blocking, and bracing around the application.
03
Build
The approved packaging design is manufactured to the required specifications.
04
Test
Where appropriate, packaging can be tested to evaluate its performance under transportation conditions.
05
Ship
The completed packaging is ready for your equipment and your shipping process.
FCA’s engineering capabilities include customized design, finite element analysis, standardized testing, purpose-built fixtures, and an ISTA-certified testing laboratory.
Semiconductor Packaging Technology for Safer Shipping
Packaging technology should be matched to the risks your equipment faces during transportation.
Depending on the application, FCA may combine:FCA’s engineering team evaluates the equipment and shipping environment to determine which materials and packaging methods make sense for the application.
The goal is simple: protect the equipment without adding unnecessary packaging, cost, or complexity.
Packaging for Domestic & International Shipping
Your packaging needs can change depending on how and where the equipment is shipped.
Domestic Shipping
Packaging designed to withstand truck transportation, forklift handling, loading, unloading, and repeated transfers.
Air Freight
Solutions designed with weight, dimensions, handling, and transfer points in mind.
Ocean Freight
Packaging designed to account for longer transit times, handling, and environmental exposure.
International Shipping
FCA provides export-compliant packaging solutions and supports international supply chain requirements, including ISPM-15 considerations.
Test Before You Ship
Packaging performance matters when the equipment inside is worth significantly more than the box around it.
FCA operates an ISTA-certified laboratory and provides testing capabilities including:
Testing allows packaging designs to be evaluated against expected transportation and handling conditions before they become part of a larger shipping program.
FAQs
For FCA, semiconductor packaging refers to custom industrial packaging used to protect semiconductor manufacturing equipment, components, and related systems during transportation, handling, and storage.
Semiconductor equipment can be large, heavy, sensitive, and difficult to handle. Custom packaging can address specific risks such as shock, vibration, movement, moisture, and lifting.
Yes. FCA designs custom boxes, skids, and protective packaging for large and heavy industrial equipment based on its dimensions, weight, handling, and shipping requirements.
Depending on the application, FCA can use engineered cushioning, foam, blocking, bracing, and other internal packaging methods to help control equipment movement and transportation vibration.
Yes. FCA supports export packaging and international supply chain requirements, including applicable ISPM-15 considerations.
Yes. FCA operates an ISTA-certified laboratory with vibration, incline, and compression testing capabilities.
