Advantages of Aluminum Pallets
Facility managers and supply chain executives often want to know why aluminum pallets are a superior pallet solution for captive warehouses and closed loop supply chains. This article outlines how aluminum pallets decrease companies’ costs and improve their supply chains.
To summarize, aluminum pallets offer ROI that far exceeds competing materials such as wood and plastic pallets particularly for environments where sanitation, light weight handling, recyclability, and longevity are key to the operation.
Aluminum pallets are fantastic for achieving corporate sustainability goals. Aluminum pallets are made from almost all recycled content, and of course at the end of their life, they are 100% recyclable, resulting in a cash value even when broken beyond repair.
Aluminum pallets featuring all sealed welds replace pallets that may shed pallet nails, wood screws and splinters, making aluminum pallets safer around sensitive production lines. Since aluminum pallets are fireproof, a cost savings is realized though reduced insurance rates compared to plastic and wood pallets.
Since there are few niche harbors on sealed- weld aluminum pallets, cleaning is easy to improve hygiene. Unlike wood pallets, with aluminum pallets there is no risk of contamination from wood-borne pests; the pallets are inherently ISPM 15 complaint.
Complete customization for almost any material handling situation is possible with aluminum pallets. They can also be custom made in either standard inches or metric centimeters to most any size and are either 2-way or 4-way forklift accessible. Custom aluminum pallets can be made to sit in open racks or nests for easy storage. Aluminum pallets can also be made for automated retrieval systems where precision is important.
Aluminum pallets are ideal for challenging environmental conditions such as extreme heat and cold. Cold food handling operators often turn to aluminum for a superior pallet solution.
Aluminum pallets’ heavy-duty extruded aluminum construction can extend their lifespan and reduce the cost per trip compared to other materials. Additionally, since there are all robotic and manual welds to eliminate rivets, clamps or fasteners that commonly break, the aluminum pallets are more durable than other competing materials.
Many industries take advantage of the benefits of aluminum pallets. Industries such as meat processing, pharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical, hospital, automotive and technology are some of the most common.
Contact author Ron Paul Jones, an expert of aluminum pallets for additional benefits that may apply to your company’s requirements. To determine the lifetime cost per trip of our aluminum pallets is to thoroughly test them. If you need custom metal pallets for a specialty application, please contact us and we’ll help you create a custom solution that works for your company.
