This packaging suspends the contents in the centre of the bag and surrounds them with a protective barrier of air to provide protection during shipping and storage. The contents are placed inside the bag and it is inflated with a pump or your own breath. It is specifically used to ship fragile machine parts but has been appropriated, in recent years, for presentation purposes, providing an alternative to the box.
BeeCore
BeeCore is the trade name for the honeycomb core of BeeBoard. For many years it has been used as the core material within car doors. The hexagonal cell construction of the core material is one of the strongest cell structures that exsit in nature. Coupled with the board laminated to both sides of the material it creates an incredibly strong and lightweight substance that can withstand high levels of pressure. The thickness of the material is determined by the depth the honeycomb core is cut to. Interestingly there is an aluminium version that aircraft fuselages are made from.
There are an infinite variety of cotton-canvas materials available in different grades depending where it is sourced. It can be stitched to form pouches or used to line or cover packaging giving an environmental or quasi-industrial finish. Try stencilling the print instead of printing.
Cork
As a material it can be used to cover and line boxes (some suppliers of book-binding cloth supply a binding grade). As a solid block it would be difficult to cut and carve to creat high volumes of packaging but it is certainly worth experimenting with. Caution needs to be exercised when screen printing.
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