CGP Coating Innovation
19/02
2019

Attualità 2019

Pallet inter-layers: 5 questions to make the right choice

How to use a Pallet interlayer

1. What is the aim of an inter-layers ?

 

The protection of products, the stabilization of the pallet, a communication mean ...

 

► The nature of the products and their packaging:

As an example, the liquid, powders or pasty loads move during their transport, they are more difficult to stabilize. The weight and the size of the product also have an impact on the load stability. Very light products are more difficult to stabilize than heavy products; in contrast heavy products in small parcel tend to shear the inter-layers. More than all, the sharp of the product impact on the stability: difficult geometric shape can be unstable and sharp shape present a risk of perforation for neighboring lots.

Bags, cardboard, tin, jerry-cans, buckets, big bags... they need all a different inter-layer specification.

 

► The logistics and transport

What is the path covered by the pallet, does it suffer multiple loads and unloads? Are pallets stacked during storage and/or during transport?

Road, rail, sea, air, mail, to what modes of transport should the pallet resist?

 

► The quality and the environment

The inter-layers, must also meet your standard of quality and hygiene: ISO 22000, HACCP. It must comply to a specific regulation: FDA, EC1935/2004, EC 2023/2006 and it should answer to your corporate specific environmental requirements: Eco-design, FSC ...

 

The choice of materials is wide: paper, cardboard, corrugated cardboard, plastic film, plastic plate, wooden plate ... And for each choice, you will need to define the optimum grammage to avoid shearing and ensure the necessary stiffness.

Finally, you have to define the size of the inter-layers : should it be the same size as the surface occupied by the products, smaller or larger ?

 

At the bottom of the pallet, to protect the products against the rising damp of the wood pallet and its minor and major defects. As inter-layers, so as to stabilize the columnar or cross load and provide cohesion between the layers. As a top sheet, to protect against possible stacking, but also to protect against dust.

Or the 3 spots!

 

Check that your palletizer is equipped to deposit the pads.

Do you have a dispenser and a gripping system that can handle pallet spacers?

Is you internal team available to run this kind of project?

Pallet interlayer anti slip

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Author: Karine Morel