Ovoko cuts eCommerce packaging costs for car bumpers by up to 42% with Mondi

Large, fragile automotive parts pose a unique challenge for eCommerce businesses. When Ovoko, a leading online marketplace for car parts, needed a smarter, safer and more cost efficient way to ship its products, Mondi’s team partnered with them to design a tailored heavy duty packaging solution. The result: significant cost savings, simpler operations and improved product protection across a demanding logistics chain. 

The challenge: ensuring safe, cost efficient shipment of oversized automotive parts 

Ovoko needed a packaging solution capable of protecting oversized, delicate automotive parts throughout a demanding eCommerce logistics chain. Their previous packaging was expensive and failed to provide sufficient protection, resulting in product damage and additional operational workload.  

As a fast-growing online marketplace shipping a wide variety of spare parts, Ovoko required packaging that was robust, simple to assemble, and optimised for both material use and unit cost, while ensuring reliable product protection during transit. 

The solution: adapting a proven heavy duty concept for eCommerce 

To address Ovoko’s challenge, Mondi leveraged its automotive packaging expertise and re-engineered a proven heavy duty packaging concept to meet the specific demands of eCommerce logistics. Mondi’s specialists precisely shaped the solution to match the exact geometry of the car bumper, eliminating empty space and reducing material use.  

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The team delivered a robust packaging format that protects fragile components throughout transit while optimising efficiency for Ovoko’s operations. After successful testing under real life shipping conditions, the solution was approved and the first trial order was delivered within two weeks. 

 

We needed packaging that was simple to assemble, cost-effective and tough enough to deliver a high level of protection. As an eCommerce business with a wide variety of product sizes, we needed a packaging partner capable of packing everything – from small components to large automotive parts. Mondi listened carefully to our needs and proposed a solution that allowed us to reduce packaging costs and improve product protection.” 

• - Agnius Skudutis, Packaging Project Manager at Ovoko

The outcome: measurable impact for Ovoko 

The results speak for themselves: 

• Up to 42% reduction in unit packaging costs, achieved by eliminating empty space and optimising material use. 
• Improved product protection, reducing damage and returns.
• Greater operational efficiency across the logistics chain.
• Simpler, faster packing operations thanks to a robust, easy-to-assemble design tailored to the bumper’s geometry. 
• Quicker implementation, with successful real-life testing and a first trial order delivered within two weeks.  

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Sometimes the best solution is the simplest one. By adapting a proven packaging concept, we were able to quickly deliver a reliable and cost-efficient solution that met Ovoko’s needs.

Dmitrijus Curkinas Regional Sales Manager, Mondi Corrugated Poland

Ovoko’s car bumper project shows how combining automotive packaging expertise with eCommerce knowhow can unlock measurable benefits for complex product categories. Mondi continues to support customers with solutions that are rigorously tested, tailored to real world logistics conditions and designed to balance protection, efficiency and responsible material use.  

A key part of this process is Mondi’s ISTA-certified testing laboratory, located in Mondi’s eCommerce innovation hub ThinkBOX in Budweis, where packaging solutions are validated against recognised international transport standards. By simulating the stresses that packages experience throughout the eCommerce logistics chain – from handling and stacking to vibration and drops – Mondi ensures that packaging delivers the necessary protection while remaining efficient in terms of material use and cost.

In eCommerce, it is not only the speed of delivery that matters, but the safety of the product throughout the logistics chain. For large and demanding items such as car bumpers, well-designed packaging ensures the product reaches the customer in perfect condition and helps build lasting customer trust.”

• - Dawid Galusiński, eCommerce Sales Manager, Mondi Group

As eCommerce businesses expand their assortments and face increasingly complex shipping requirements, Mondi’s innovationdriven approach and advanced testing capabilities ensure that future packaging performs reliably – no matter the size, shape or challenge.