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The Aircrate: A Reusable Bubblewrap Alternative Where You Provide the Air

ArtMor's neater solution for transporting or storing art

By Rain Noe - December 4, 2025

in Packaging | Fine Art

Paintings can be wrapped in bubble wrap to protect them in storage or during transit. And while bubble wrap is technically reusable, few bother to carefully cut it off and re-coil it, so it often becomes waste.

A Spanish company called Artmor has come up with a neater, reusable and more bespoke solution. Their Aircrate product comes in multiple sizes, and arrives to you like this:

You sleeve the piece, then inflate it with an compressor, a balloon pump or a manual pump:

You get a perfect fit—quickly, without using any tape—and the Aircrate can be reused. For art handlers, this saves time. For galleries and museums that rotate pieces in and out of storage, it saves cost and hassle.