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Since 1969, PDQ Plastics has been a quality manufacturer of plastic pallets, export pallets, stackable pallets and rackable pallets. Since the beginning, PDQ has never wavered on the quality of our plastic pallets. We make durable pallets as well as provide superior customer service.
We offer a vast selection of plastic pallets to provide the best material handling solution. Neatable, Stackable, Rackable & Drum pallets. Our Export Pallets meet the European, Australian, Chinese emergency packaging measures, and are a low-cost, hassle-free alternative to chemical-treated wood pallets.
TranPak is a Western USA based independent wholesaler of plastic and corrugated pallets and bins. We offer a wide selection of reusable plastic and corrugated pallets and bins to be used in variety of sectors, including agriculture, textile industry, food and beverage industry and others.
TMF Corporation manufactures the Protech 4048 heavy duty plastic pallet. With inventory on hand, we quickly deliver both the standard and the FM Approved Protech 4048. Features include: one-piece structural foam construction, thick legs for impact protection and cleanable, flow through design.
Robinson Industries manufactures a large variety of tough, long-lasting, recyclable plastic pallets including single and twin sheet thermoformed, and structural foam. From light weight export pallets to heavy duty reusable pallets, Robinson is your single source for standard size or custom pallets.
Our plastic pallets are likely to suit most of your shipping and storage needs, and if not, we can help you out with custom plastic pallets. Some of our durable, quality and dependable products include rackable pallets, nestable pallets, shipping pallets, can pallets and export pallets.
Plastic pallets are platforms which are used for the storing
and transporting of products. They are designed to be long-lasting, requiring
little maintenance or repair. Plastic pallet manufacturers mold their products
to be rackable, nested or stacked. They are water resistance, and therefore,
are perfect for outdoor storage, for use in automated warehouses and to store
or transport products that must remain dry. Plastic pallets can also withstand
below-freezing temperatures. They are also very hygienic because they are easy
to clean, can be sterilized at temperatures reaching 120 degrees centigrade
and can be high-pressure washed.
Plastic pallet manufacturers typically offer sizes from 20” x 28” to
48” x 72” but can easily meet uncommon specifications. Plastic
pallet configurations allow pallet jacks to pick them up from all four sides.
The top deck of a pallet can be either open or closed. A closed deck is basically
solid with a continuous surface; an open deck has slots, holes or a grid. The
bottom deck configurations are as follows: full, full perimeter, three-stringer
or legs only. A full deck is fully covered or has grid-work. The perimeter
of a full perimeter deck is completely covered. Three-stringer decks have three
stringers, or boards, running parallel from front to back, either length- or
width-wise. Some plastic pallet manufacturers have overcome the problem of
slippery surfaces by adding sand to the mix of plastic or placing a non-skid
strip on the top deck.
Plastic pallets hold a distinct advantage over wooden pallets. Although the
initial cost of plastic pallets is a great deal more than wooden pallets, plastic
pallets have a much longer lifespan. While wooden pallets last just a few trips,
plastic pallets may be used for years. Plastic pallets are also lighter than
wooden pallets by about 30 to 40% and can hold just as much weight. They are
safer than wooden pallets, as there are no splinters, nails or sharp corners
to consider. Plastic pallets are made of recycled feedstock and are 100% recyclable.
Plastic pallets, unlike wooden pallets, are non-absorbent and impervious to
odors, acids, fats or solvents. Thus, plastic export
pallets are unlikely to
be delayed or quarantined due to issues of infestation that plague wooden pallets.
Many international industries—such as food, pharmaceuticals, rubber,
electronics, building and construction, automotive, freight forwarding, agriculture
and nurseries—have embraced the use of plastic pallets. Companies that
have closed-loop distribution systems benefit greatly from the reusable plastic
pallets, as the trucks drop off and pick up supplies on a frequent basis. Non-closed
loop companies, which were hesitant to make such a huge initial investment,
have saved a large amount by using a bar-coding system to track hundreds of
thousands of plastic pallets. Smaller companies have used a deposit system
or imprinted the company name on the plastic pallet itself.
Custom plastic pallets are designed to accommodate
special requirements of size, handling and storage.
Export
pallets are used to ship products overseas and are usually
made of wood.
Pallets are usually wooden platforms on which products are placed and wrapped for transportation and storage.
Plastic crate pallets have walls or a basket to better stabilize
and contain products.
Plastic racking pallets can be held on pallet racks for storage.
Plastic shipping pallets are used to stack and transport products
or materials.
Plastic
skids are pallets with wheels for easier movement.
Rackable pallets can be edge supported for indefinite periods of
time on either the width or the length side.
Shipping pallets are platforms used in packaging on which goods are placed for transportation.
Used
plastic pallets have been used to ship or store a product but
are still in working condition.
Plastic Pallets Terms
Automatic Palletizers – Assemble
products on pallets by themselves or with little assistance; often part
of a larger shipping system.
Bag Palletizers – Devices with gripping
modifications specifically designed to arrange bags on pallets for shipping and/or
movement; may be in-line or robotic.
Blue Palletizers – A pallet
with its sides painted blue, indicating it is owned by the rental company
CHEP.
Captive Pallet – A pallet which stays within a facility and is not
exchanged, traded or delivered off-site.
Corrugated Plastic – A product typically
extruded from polypropylene that has been fluted in a way that is similar to
corrugated board and is waterproof, durable, resistant to chemicals, available
in a variety of transparent and translucent colors and has a good strength to
weight ratio.
Deck – The side of the pallet that
faces upward or downward.
Eight-way Pallet – A pallet that permits
forklift entry on all four sides, as well as diagonally at each corner.
Fork Entry – The entry place for forks
to move the pallet, usually between decks or under the top deck.
Four-way Pallet – A pallet
that permits forklift entry into all four sides.
Hygienic – Promoting health; sanitary.
Manual Palletizers – Speed the stacking
goods onto a pallet and aid with layer organization.
Nesting – The capability of containers
of different sizes to be placed one inside another.
Non-reversible Pallet – A
pallet that cannot be used when turned upside down, either because it
has no boards or have a limited number of bottom boards.
One-way Pallet – An expendable pallet
made of low-quality materials intended to be shipped once and then disposed of.
Orange Pallet – A pallet with
its sides painted orange, indicating it is part of the Canadian Pallet
Council pallet pool.
Racked Across Deckboards – The
maximum load carrying capacity and deflection of a pallet where, at the
ends of the deckboards, the rack frame sustains the pallet.
Racked Across Stringers - The maximum carrying
capacity of a pallet where, only at the ends of the stringers or stringer boards,
the rack frame sustains the pallet.
Reversible Pallet - A pallet that
has deck boards spaced identically on top and bottom, permitting the
pallet to be reversed.
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) – A
device that ranges in size from small enough to be inserted into a label on a
package to a paperback book that is attached to an object and transmits data
to a receiver; able to hold more data than barcodes, does not require line-of-sight
to transfer data and is highly effective in harsh environments.
Rotationally molded plastic (http://www.iqsdirectory.com/rotational-molding/)
- Common form of production for plastic pallets because of the resulting strength,
seamlessness and availability of custom designs.
Skid – A pallet that has not bottom
boards (also known as a “single-deck pallet).
Slave Pallet – A panel used
to support the base of a palletized load in rack-storage facilities.
Stringers – Boards located between
the bottom and top deck boards of a pallet.
Two-way Pallet – A pallet
that permits forklift entry in the two opposite pallet ends only.
Unit Load – The collecting of goods
to be moved or shipped onto a pallet.
White Pallet – Pallets not painted
or marked to indicate their ownership.
