This is the shape of a plastic tray.
Now pallets tend to be standardized, 1200mm* 1000mm.
Advantages of plastic pallets over wooden pallets:
1, the reliability of plastic pallet structure is much higher than that of wooden pallet, which reduces the damage consumption of pallet. Usually, the service life is more than 2 years, and there is no repair rate, which is incomparable with the wooden pallet that is easily damaged and needs special tools for maintenance. According to statistics, the wooden pallet with the best quality needs at least maintenance 1 time after being used for three times on average, and the cost of each maintenance is not less than USD 3, equivalent to RMB 19.29.
2. Wooden pallets are difficult to track during transportation, resulting in great loss. In the United States alone, 3 million wooden pallets are lost every year, and the global container transportation industry loses 600 million wooden pallets every year. In particular, wooden pallets used for consigning meat, fish and other perishable foods or toxic chemical dangerous goods must usually be destroyed according to regulations. Plastic trays can be reused as long as they are washed with water or disinfected again.
3. Wooden pallets often break during transportation, while plastic pallets are very durable and not easy to break, and there is no repair rate. Even if it is completely damaged after being used for dozens of times, the plastic tray can be re-made into a new type of plastic tray and reused repeatedly. Abandoned wooden pallet can only be treated as garbage, which costs a lot of money.
4. Plastic pallets are more suitable for special commodity markets, such as food, beverage, pharmacy and salt industry. According to the requirements of different factories, plastic trays can be made into various colors, with corresponding company logos and signs.
5. When the weight of the plastic pallet and the wooden pallet are equal, the load capacity is five times that of the wooden pallet, thus greatly improving the load capacity of the pallet, reducing the usage of the pallet, greatly improving the efficiency and reducing the cost.
6. The advantages of plastic trays are moisture-proof, mildew-proof, moth-proof, nail-free, thorn-free, easy to clean, hygienic for export, durable and recyclable; However, wooden pallets are prone to moisture, mildew, moths, difficulty in cleaning, insufficient sanitary requirements, waste and destruction of forest resources, easy pollution after use, and inconvenient export.
In recent years, the average annual growth rate of logistics industry in China has exceeded 15%. With the introduction of the regulations prohibiting the use of wooden pallets in railway transportation, the market share of wooden pallets began to decline obviously, and the average annual growth rate of plastic pallets was close to 20%. At present, plastic pallets are widely used in food, medicine, machinery, automobile, tobacco, chemical industry, commercial logistics distribution, book audio-visual distribution, tobacco distribution, warehousing logistics and other industries. They have the advantages of light weight, beautiful appearance, high strength, long service life, corrosion resistance and recycling. They are important tools for modern transportation, storage and packaging. They can be stacked on the ground, and the four-way fork is the most widely used.