A blank for making a tub support that fits inside the top opening of a washing machine to prevent the wash tub from moving relative to the cabinet during shipping and handling. The tub support may comprise a rear folded portion having a plurality of rear tub contact points that contact the wash tub, and a sidewall configured to contact the top edge of the wash tub along a plurality of tub contact points and to contact the rim of the washing machine cabinet along a plurality of cabinet contact points.

A method of forming a packaging brace for a washing machine appliance includes providing a flat blank. The method also includes folding a left side panel and a right side panel of the flat blank inwards towards each other. The method further includes positioning a bottom panel of the blank above an opening in a cabinet of the washing machine and inserting the bottom panel into a basket of the washing machine through the opening whereby a contoured profile of the opening urges the blank to fold and form a packaging brace for the washing machine appliance.

A package of a sheet stack and a corrugated board all overwrapped with plastic film that is heat sealed. The sheet stack and the corrugated board are adjacent each other. The corrugated board is thicker and larger than each of the posterboard sheets to protect corner regions of the sheet stack from damage otherwise arising from bending and curling forces imposed from heat sealing the overwrapped plastic film. The sheet stack may have arranged one after the other either posterboard sheets or foam core board sheets or both.

A cushioning, which is used for packaging an embedded air blower, forms a three-dimensional shape which partially coincides with a shape of the embedded air blower in a packaged state. The cushioning is capable of forming a planar plate shape in an unpackaged state. The cushioning includes a slit which coincides with an outer periphery of an embedding hole for embedding the embedded air blower, in the planar plate shape.

A package includes a storage portion that stores an object to be stored, and a buffer portion that reduces a gap generated between the object to be stored and the storage portion. The storage portion includes a bottom and a lid facing the bottom, and the buffer portion includes a base facing the object to be stored in a stacking direction from the bottom toward the lid, a first fold, and a space adjusting portion connected to the base at the first fold. The space adjusting portion includes an adjusting region extending in the stacking direction, a plurality of second folds distributed in a first direction intersecting the first fold, and a contact region connected to the adjusting region at one of the plurality of second folds.

A corrugated alternate displacement cushion may be formed from a corrugated cardboard sheet having cutout rows of cutout sections that are spaced in the transverse direction across the corrugated cardboard sheet and separated by corresponding lands. The cutout sections of adjacent cutout rows do not overlap in the transverse direction. When the corrugated cardboard sheet is folded up around transverse creases, inner and outer sides of the cutout sections may be covered by lands of other cutout rows such that air pockets defined by the cutout sections are formed within the corrugated alternate displacement cushion.

Packaging may include cushioning components. Cardboard corrugate cushioning elements may be configured with a folded cardboard spring, lateral stability wrap, and stiffening element. The cushioning components may include mechanical bends formed as creases, that provide resistance to deformation, thereby allowing the cushioning component to absorb impact and vibration, and replacing the need for less environmentally friendly cushioning, such as expanded polystyrene or foam cushioning.

Provided herein is a recyclable and biodegradable packaging insert for holding consumer goods in place within the packaging. In an embodiment, the recyclable packaging insert holds consumer goods which are cosmetics. A GFP Envirotray is designed to protect objects within an outer container (box) from impact or abrasion. Packaging is made from paper or fiber board, corrugated or solid paper board.

A sack for mailing at least one item or for dunnage is provided. The sack is formed by two facing panels sealed along a perimeter. Each panel is at least one-ply and the ply has a layer of paper having a grammage from 35 to 450 g/m.sup.2 and a film of an extruded or laminated polymer covering one face of the layer of paper.

A retention packaging assembly (100, 200, 300) includes an end retention frame (200) that retains one lateral side of an object (150) and another retention frame (300) that retains another lateral side of the object. Each of the retention frames includes a retention panel, an end panel (104, 106) foldably coupled to the retention panel, a set of wing panels configured to be folded into a folded configuration, and a sheet (208, 308) fixedly coupled to each of the wing panels. Each end retention frame retains a lateral side of the object between the sheet and the retention panel when the wing panels are in the folded configuration. In some cases, the end retention frames are laterally spaced away from each other such that they do not contact each other when they retain the lateral sides of the object.