Packsize & Göpfert Are Missing One Thing: The Whole Package

Let's Be Clear: Packsize and Göpfert Are Both Good Companies

Packsize has eliminated the need to stock dozens of different-sized pre-made boxes in warehouses. Orders come in, the system calculates dimensions, the machine cuts a sheet of continuous corrugated board, and现场 folding, gluing, sealing, and labeling happen on the spot. A perfectly fitted box emerges in seconds. With 7,000+ installations globally — DHL, Walmart, Staples all use it — Packsize has taken "on-demand box making" to its极致.

Göpfert has been building Boxmakers since 1975. Feeding, slotting, creasing, slitting, die-cutting, printing — all in one pass. Electric servo plus CNC control, touchscreen order storage, fast changeovers. It's the efficiency benchmark for corrugated post-processing in small-to-medium batches. With 400+ installations worldwide, Germany's Speidel has been using one since 1988. Göpfert has taken "corrugated post-processing mass production" to its极致.

But if you sit down and lay out the problem you actually need to solve, you'll discover one thing:

They each only do half.

Packsize's Half

Packsize makes outer boxes. Standard corrugated outer boxes, produced in real-time to order dimensions, eliminating inventory and reducing shipping costs.

But it doesn't make color boxes. Doesn't make inserts. Doesn't make display stands. Doesn't make EVA cushioning. Doesn't make acrylic dividers.

Not because it doesn't want to — because its design objective isn't there. It's a warehouse fulfillment device, not a packaging production machine.

So Packsize customers often encounter an awkward scenario:

The outer box problem in the warehouse is solved, but over in the packaging engineering department — new product prototyping, structure validation, color box confirmation, insert selection — it's business as usual. Open a die, wait three days, spend thousands, revise and do another round.

Packsize solved "how the box ships out." It didn't solve "what goes inside the box, how it's packed, whether it looks good."