This sounds like a minor thing but I promise it has become a surprisingly significant issue for us and I would genuinely like to hear if other people have noticed the same problem in their operations. We manage a small food packaging facility in Dubai where the team is constantly moving product between different stations throughout the day and for a long time we were using older style crates that were honestly heavier than they needed to be for what we were actually putting inside them. The weight of the empty crate itself sounds trivial until you realise your team members are lifting and carrying them dozens of times a shift and by the afternoon the fatigue is genuinely visible and starting to affect how carefully people handle things which creates its own set of problems around breakage and quality control. One of our supervisors raised this in a team review and suggested looking into lightweight closed crates as a potential solution because she had used them at a previous job and said the difference in how much energy the team conserved over a full shift was actually noticeable in their output during the later part of the day. I came across crateco while researching crate options available locally in the UAE and their closed crate section had more variety than I expected in terms of size and construction which helped me understand that choosing the right weight to strength ratio for your specific application is actually a more nuanced decision than just picking the lightest option available. What I want to know before making a purchase is whether there are any meaningful trade offs in durability or load capacity when you move to lighter construction and how that plays out in real daily use over months rather than just in initial testing. Any practical experience from people running similar setups would be really appreciated.