ASTA Company Spotlight: Seedbox Solution

Seedbox Solution, based in Gurnee, IL, addresses the high freight and plastic cost with innovative rental solutions.

Seedbox Solution, innovators in hard box design, service, and management, has moved the marker again during these times when freight cost and commodities are at record highs.

No longer do seed producers have to decide whether to reserve capital for business expansion or buy more hard boxes. “The choice is easy,” says Jon Bertolino, Vice President of Sales. “Simply expense the number of seed boxes you need for your season by renting.” Bertolino says it is as easy as a phone call. Just call Seedbox Solution, sign a simple contract and the boxes are delivered to your door in a clean, untreated condition, ready for use. Bertolino also states that the renter doesn’t even need to repair or wash boxes after they have used them. Just return the boxes to a designated return center and Seedbox Solution does the rest. For example: for a simple flat rate of $124.50, you get a ready to use, untreated, clean seed box delivered to your door. After the season, or use, return it to a Seedbox Solution return center where it is cleaned, repaired, and warehoused in the off-season.

Operators who already own boxes understand that ownership has many costs above and beyond the first capital purchase. Washing, repair, and warehousing of seed boxes create costs that take the focus away from seed production and moves it to seed box management. The rental seed box platform is fast becoming a preferred way to manage the needs of the end user who wants seed delivered in a box, while addressing the seed producers desire to provide seed at the lowest cost per unit, with the least amount of expense in packaging.

Seedbox Solution has built this rental model over the past three seasons to address the ever-increasing difficulty in finding labor and time to manage boxes.  The rental seed box is thebest alternative to ensure the seed buyer gets the packaging they prefer at the lowest cost to the provider.

Seedbox Solution also recognizes that not every company wants to rent. Bertolino stated that some companies are very vertically integrated and just want the ownership model. Understanding this, Seedbox Solution created the GEN250 seed box in 2018, which allows an operator to load 66 empty seed boxes in a semi-trailer versus the old style that maxed out at only 44 boxes in a trailer. The GEN250’s intuitive design, which mirrors the old-style boxes in equipment fit, seed count, and features, provides 50% freight savings every time you move a load of empty boxes. This savings starts the day you buy your first load and ship from the factory. With today’s fuel prices and freight cost at record highs, the GEN250 seed box has proven to create savings the first day you move it and every time thereafter. “Freight cost becomes the highest cost of ownership after initial purchase,” Bertolino states. “Why would anyone want to ship 44 boxes when you can ship 66? For 18 years, the industry has not had alternatives to ownership or options to rent…now it does.”

Seedbox Solution would like to invite you to view an informative video on their rental program which can be viewed here, along with their products and offerings.

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