Plastic Pallets

What are Plastic Pallets?

Plastic Pallets are rigid structures that provide mechanical stability to a bulk quantity of goods during handling to preserve their quality. Handling includes all activities related to lifting, moving from one point to another, stacking, product storage, and long-distance transportation by land or sea. To facilitate the mobility of goods, plastic pallets are designed to be moveable by equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, and front loaders.

Generally, pallets can be made from materials such as metal, plastics, wood, and paper. Plastic pallets have many advantages over other materials, such as being lightweight, hygienic, and cost-effective. There are several plastic pallet designs a company may choose from depending on their needs. Plastic pallets can be seen in warehouses, factories, stores, and shipping companies. Nevertheless, all types of pallets remain an important tool in the logistics and supply chain industry.

Rackable Plastic Pallets have standardized sizes in compliance with the regulations imposed by governing organizations in a certain region. Standardized pallet sizes were made to eliminate wasted time and inconveniences in transferring goods to a particular region. Pallets constructed from other material types are also covered by such regulations.

Advantages of Plastic Pallets

There are several advantages plastic pallets offer to the supply chain:

Plastic pallets are resistant to microbial growth and pest infestation.

This is one of the most important features of Stackable Plastic Pallets in the handling of food, beverage, and pharmaceutical products. Because of its non-porous structure and moisture resistance, plastic pallets reduce the severity of microbial and pathogen growth that can degrade the quality of goods and cause harm to human health.

Plastic pallets are inhospitable to pests and other harmful organisms.

Plastic pallets are exempted from ISPM No. 15.

Plastic pallets are exempted from the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures No. 15, or the "Regulation of wood packaging material in international trade (ISPM-15)." It is a set of measures created by the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) aimed to mitigate the introduction and spread of invasive species (e.g., bugs, beetles, and pathogens) through the shipment of insufficiently processed and contaminated wood.

Wooden pallets, as well as other packaging materials like crates and dunnage, are affected by ISPM-15 and are required to undergo the approved treatment process stated in the regulation. Treatment of wooden pallets is supervised by the National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO) of the importing and exporting countries. An IPPC marking (as shown below) is issued to the individual wooden pallets as an identification of their compliance.

Being exempt from this regulation, Nestable Plastic Pallets are not required to undergo such treatments and inspections when entering international ports.

Plastic pallets have excellent contamination, odor, and corrosion resistance

The integrity of plastic pallets remains unaffected when they are exposed to spills, contamination, and moisture. They do not erode easily. Once dirty or contaminated, plastic pallets are easy to clean and sanitize; this prolongs their service life. Hence, plastic pallets are suitable for handling drums and containers containing acids, fuels, solvents, raw meat, dairy products, etc.

Plastic pallets are lightweight

Compared to wooden and metal pallets, Hygiene Plastic Pallet is easy to handle and move from one point to another because it weighs less. Weight is a major concern during shipping, especially for airfreight shipments. Plastic pallets incur fewer transportation costs in all modes of transportation. They also induce less wear to the shipping vehicles‘ engines in the long run.

Plastic pallets are durable

Plastic Pallet Boxes are usually constructed in one solid piece. They have seamless connections between their components because they are produced through the molding process. Their seamless connections eliminate the weak spots present in pallets with mechanical fasteners (e.g., screws, nails) to assemble the pallet. This makes the pallet durable, and it consequently has a long service life.

Plastic pallets are reusable and have a long service life

Plastic pallets last longer than wooden pallets. They can be reused multiple times in the supply chain. They can endure many shipping cycles or long service times in stores, factories, and warehouses before they wear out.

Plastic pallets are recyclable

The raw, virgin plastic resins used to manufacture a plastic pallet are mixed with portions of recycled plastics. This is feasible with thermoplastics through another re-molding process. This lowers the production cost and reduces the carbon footprint of the plastic pallet. However, Collapsible Plastic Boxes made from 100% virgin plastics have superior characteristics and performance.

With the development of logistics in the 1970s, there were more and more improvements, also in terms of making the work of warehouse workers easier and faster for picking of goods. The emergence of mesh carts on wheels significantly simplified the movement of goods in the warehouse. Currently, mesh roll containers are an indispensable carrier of loads in many industries, from facilities such as hospitals, laundries or supermarkets, to retail chains that need to transport goods from warehouses or distribution centers to stores

Today, robust Roll Containers are true masters of transport: they are so flexible that they adapt to the transported assortment and transport the products safely and smoothly to their destination. Interestingly, these trolleys are an unusual logistic tool because on one trolley the goods are transported from the distribution point to the store shelf. It is worth getting to know the advantages of various models of roll containers, so that you can configure them to suit your needs.

Roll containers designed to suit their role

When choosing the right roll container, it is important that it fits the existing supply chain. Perhaps you most often choose mesh carts, which are a continuation of the previous choice of an appropriate logistics tool. However, if they do not fully fulfill their function or you see the possibility of improving transport, consider choosing the right design for your application area.

Plastic Dustbin is a product used in many industries of cleaning and sanitation, which brings cleanliness, sanitation and environmental protection to cities, community health and all kinds of public places. It is a ubiquitous environmental protection product in real life. There are about 500 million garbage cans in use in China, of which 66% are iron and wooden garbage cans, and only 30% are Kete recycled plastic garbage cans. There is still a lot of space for plastic garbage cans.

The plastic trash can also has a good display for more cleaning. We habitually throw garbage into the trash can, which will also have better educational significance for many children, and promote the use of different materials. Easy cleaning is also the advantage of plastic trash cans, which shows the more humanized design concept of trash cans in use.