Hi, so I've been tasked with sourcing storage crates for our company's new warehouse space and honestly I underestimated how complicated this decision would be when I first volunteered for it. We're a medium sized trading company that's expanding into a larger facility in Sharjah and the operations manager wants a proper uniform crate system in place before we move stock in rather than the chaotic mix of random containers we've been using at our current location for the past three years. I started by doing what I thought was straightforward research online but quickly realized that almost every supplier makes similar claims about quality and durability without giving you anything concrete to actually compare them on. A colleague who handles procurement for a manufacturing company told me the only real way to evaluate suppliers is to request physical samples before committing to any volume order because photographs and spec sheets don't tell you anything about how a crate actually feels in your hands or how the handles hold up under real weight. That advice pushed me to start narrowing down who I'd actually request samples from and while going through my shortlist I came across crateco.ae which kept appearing when I searched specifically for plastic crates suppliers in UAE rather than just general storage solutions. What I'm trying to figure out is what questions I should be asking when I contact suppliers directly because I don't want to come across as inexperienced and end up getting sold something that sounds good but doesn't actually fit our specific needs. We're storing items of varying weights and the crates need to handle being moved by hand as well as by forklift on pallets which I understand not all crates are designed to accommodate at the same time. Has anyone here gone through a proper supplier evaluation process for industrial crates in the UAE and can share what made the difference between a supplier worth committing to versus one that looked good on paper but didn't hold up?