Lonely Crates Offers Used Shipping Crates

DALLAS - May 20, 2015 - PRLog -- Lonely Crates, the leading provider of sustainable crating solutions, has announced its first warehouse in Dallas, Texas, offering hundreds of quality wooden shipping crates. Lonely Crates rescues quality crates headed to landfill from museums and galleries and offers them back to the art community for a fraction of the cost of new. The company provides visibility of crate inventory on their website and matches buyers to the right size used crate. These crates can also be used to ship other high value items such as antiques, furniture, etc.

Marty Walker founded Lonely Crates after her own frustrating experience dealing with art crates as a gallery owner.

"New custom built crates are very expensive with small ones running $500 and larger up to $10,000 or more, " Walker said.  "Many galleries and museums try to store some of the empties to prevent the expense of buying new ones, but also because the thought of sending a quality crate to landfill is no longer a responsible option.  Currently only 14.1% of wood waste is recycled, sending 13.6 million tons of wood waste to landfill every year.  Lonely Crates aims to significantly reduce the amount of shipping waste by offering crate reuse. As long as the object being shipped is smaller than the crate, interior foam can be refitted to match the artwork and the crate."

Beta partnerships with the Dallas Museum of Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Displays FAS and Unified Fine Arts provided valuable insight while the team was in the early stages of development.

In addition, Lonely Crates has partnered with SparkTen, a hands-on investment group that assists early-stage companies with the necessary capital and talent to create successful and scalable businesses.

How Lonely Crates works:

·      - Lonely Crates picks up crates from museums and galleries on Fridays.

·      - Buyers contact Lonely Crates with the exact dimensions of their artwork

·      - Lonely Crates finds a crate that will fit the artwork and allow room for foam padding.

·      - DIYers can pick up the crate at our warehouse, or our art handling affiliate partners can provide quotes for pickup the crate, artwork, pack and ship providing a total seamless solution.

Lonely Crates plans to expand its service to other major markets in the coming months.

"Our beta phase will help us understand our markets and user needs while we evolve our website, processes and offerings, " says Walker. Learn more at http://LonelyCrates.com.