Pallets are consisted of
light duty plastic pallet, medium duty plastic pallet, heavy duty plastic pallet.
Light
duty plastic pallet usually is for export purpose,shipping or cargo
consignment. It also classified as one way plastic pallet, or cargo
pallet. The pallet weight itself only 6kg to 8kg. Material of pallet
usually made by recycled PP, black in colour. The load capacity of this
light duty plastic pallet is 1ton dynamic load, and 2ton or 3ton static
load, but zero racking load, means it is not able to put on rack. It may
cause accidents due to pallet breakdown.
Medium
duty plastic pallets can be used for two functions which are shipping
consignments or internal storage. Pallet weight itself is more heavy
than light duty plastic pallet, which is around 10 to 15kg. Material of
pallet is usually made by HDPE, blue or grey in colour, or recycled PP,
black in colour. The load capacity of this medium duty plastic pallet is
1ton to 1.5ton dynamic load, 4 to 5 ton static load. In what type of
scenario we need to choose medium duty plastic pallet for export
purpose? The answer is when the cargo load is more than 1ton and below
1.5ton per pallet. If below 1ton per pallet, the light duty plastic
pallet is more than enough for shipping purpose. The racking load of
medium duty plastic pallet is around 300kg to 500kg. Therefore, medium
duty plastic pallet also can use for internal storage or internal goods
transferring application. It can be store on floor (can up to 1.5ton to 5
ton) or on racking (not more than 500kg).
Heavy
duty plastic pallet is mainly for internal storage purpose, because of
this highest strength and cost consideration. The pallet weight itself
is around 15 to 25kg depends the different applications and functions.
Heavy duty plastic pallet mainly made by materials of HDPE, in blue,
green or grey in colour. The load capacity of heavy duty plastic pallet
is 1.5ton dynamic load, 4.5 to 8 ton static load, 1 to 1.5 ton racking
load. During the pallet selection for this heavy duty pallet the most
important information must be provided is the racking load, goods
packaging and racking system type. The goods packaging consists of in
carton box, plastic basket box, jumbo bag, woven bag, paper bag, plastic
bag and others. The racking type also very important point to cause the
pallet failure. The racking systems are selective racking, double deep
racking, drive in racking, push back racking, and others.
