In the transportations of communications equipment, packaging consumes a large amount of natural resources – for example timber, with continued industry use seen as a long-term threat for forests.

In order to reduce the consumption of timber, the industry's leading suppliers are working hard to promote renewable packaging materials and improve the recycling of these resources.

We have reduced the consumption of packaging materials by utilizing lightweight materials and smaller packaging, continually investigating more appropriate packaging, and extending the life cycle of the packaging products through the establishment and improvement of an effective recovery system. These can be summarized by using the 6 R concept, that of: rational design, reducing supplies, recycle, reuse, recovery, and renewable.

The "Transportation cabinet" is typically a reusable unit with associated reusable packaging. This solution is based on recycled wood materials, visualized packaging technology, assembly technology, standardization and appropriate design.

Together with a universal logistics platform, the "Transportation cabinet" solution reduces the consumption of natural resources such as wood from forests in the packaging and logistics stage, and promotes sustainable development of resource-saving and environmentally friendly packaging and logistics within the industry.

Figure: Reuse of Visible Cabinet Package Saves 50% Wood Consumption

By working in partnership with our customers on their network implementation projects we have shown that, compared to the legacy packaging solution, the "Transportation cabinet" solution can save about 50% of timber, reduce about 20% to 30% of the packaging weight, and extend up to 2 to 4 times the service life of the Packaging, while reducing about 5% to 10% the life-cycle cost, and raising operational efficiency about 80% to 90%.

According to Huawei shipment statistics, using this solution and our ongoing continuous improvement program, 12,000 cubic meters of timber consumption, 2,700,000 liters of oil consumption, 750,000 KWH power, and 6,172,000 tons carbon dioxide emissions will be saved every year.