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| Plastic pallets are more widely used in Europe than in the rest of the world |
| Wednesday, 03 February 2010 12:53 | |
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Plastic pallets are pallets made of plastic. Plastic pallets are more widely used in Europe than in the rest of the world. Plastic pallets are often chosen over traditional wood pallets because they offer benefits which wood can not. Some benefits over wood include the ability to easily sanitize plastic pallets, resistance to odor, longer service life span, and lighter weight, thus saving transportation and labor costsThere are 6 main types of plastic processes that are used to make pallets: High Pressure Injection Molding Structural Foam Molding Thermoforming Compression Molding Rotational Molding Profile Extrusion Plastic sheets are available in a wide variety. You need to know how much weight you are putting on a pallet and how it will be used to select the proper type of pallet for your application. Rackable – These are the strongest plastic pallets available. They are built to withstand their weight capacities on an open rack system that does not have decking. in other words, the rack has just a front and back beam with nothing between. Stackable – These pallets are designed with a bottom deck that allows you to stack pallets on top of other loaded pallets without damaging the load. Stackable pallets have a variety of bottoms. Export Pallet – Available in both Stackable and Nestable versions. Inexpensive plastic pallets designed for one-way shipments or general light warehouse and storage use. The most cost effective pallets are manufactured in a 40 x 48 size to “cube out” shipping containers. Solid Deck Pallets – They are just that, the deck or top of the pallet is solid plastic. History There is no clear documented time at which plastic pallets first appeared, but the consensus in the pallet industry is that they most likely appeared in the United States after World War II. Credit is given to retired B-29 captain Leo Nathans (PDQ PLASTICS INC) for creating plastic pallets for the auto industry to ship car parts when metals were a precious commodity due to war effort.
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