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As the price of oil, freight and metal rise worldwide, so will the cost of logistics, transportation and investment. All these translate into an incremental effect made worse if there is a deficiency in a product's design.
Poor product designs are often burdened by the massive weight of the apparatus. In addition, the deficiency in the nesting height between each apparatus will limit the number of apparatus nested when empty. The weight constrains and the nesting deficiency will limit the number of apparatus being transported more cost-efficiently in bulk via land or sea. Ultimately, poor product designs will contribute to higher costs of logistics to users.
Friendlypack's metal pallets are cost-effective by being efficient. They are designed to lower logistical costs, pack extra payload, nest more closely on return journeys and are lightweight, durable, contamination-free and actually cost less to re-position. This efficiency translates into significant cost savings to your operations. No other packaging solutions today come close to Friendlypack's packaging solution. |
Contamination-Free Packaging
Traditional wood-based packaging depletes forests and timber is getting more expensive and difficult to source. The shortage of off-cut timber makes wood-based packaging unfeasible as a realistic long-term packaging solution.
Our pallet is 100% wood-free. The pallet is made of metal tubing and plates with a rigid frame structure that is strong, durable and lightweight.
The weight of our metal pallet is equivalent to the weight of a wooden pallet. It is hot-dip galvanized to ensure long-lasting, clean and contamination-free applications. |
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Disposal and Fumigation Cost
The green packaging concept eliminates environmental issues associated with wood-based packaging. There is an International Standard for Phytosanitary Measure: Guideline for Regulating Wood Packaging Material in International Trade (ISPN 15) issued by the United Nations. This regulation requires heat-treatment or fumigation for wood-based packaging.
Our metal pallet complies with ISPN 15, therefore eliminating the need for heat-treatment or fumigation and the accompanying heat-treatment or fumigation costs that go with it. Moreover, there is no risk of wood related contamination and costs associated with disposal.
ISO 14000 Certification
Our metal pallets are strong, durable and yield a longer life-span compared to traditional wood-based packaging. They can be reused many times over and are able to withstand harsh handling environments.
Using our metal pallets can assist companies to focus on environmental management to achieve ISO 14000 certification for reducing world waste and pollution. |
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Cost Savings on Warehousing
Better factory hygiene and easy housekeeping can be achieved with our metal pallets. There is no wood splinter often associated with traditional wood-based packaging and so ensures there is no unnecessary cleaning cost. The high probability of wood breakage makes it harder to keep a warehouse splinter-free.
Efficient nesting allows more empty pallets to be nested and stacked in sets for easy housekeeping, resulting in huge savings in storage space.
The nesting of empty pallets do not require any form of dismantling, assembling or setup. Friendlypack truly provides easy handling while maximizing warehouse space utilization. |
Nested Pallets
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Easy Mechanical Handling
The pallet is designed for user-friendly operation and easy mechanical handling. It will fit into a typical four-way forklift entry without the need to adjust the position of the forklift blades. Two packed shrink-wrap-on-metal pallets can easily be handled by forklift. |
Forklift Entry
Alternative Forklift Entry
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Extra Bales At No Extra Cost
The most unique feature of the pallet is the pan in the center. It is designed to accommodate two additional bales of block rubber of 35kg each to achieve maximum load efficiency.
There are currently no other packaging systems in the natural rubber industry that offer additional payload efficiency. |
Two Extra Bales
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Load Efficiency at NO Extra Cost
One unit of packed pallet can hold a standard weight of thirty-eight bales of block rubber or 1,330kg compared to the traditional thirty-six bales or 1,260kg for wooden packaging, slip tray, metal tray and metal crate.
The metal pallet is strong and durable and is able to carry extremely heavy loads up to 1,540kg or forty-four bales of block rubber |
38 Bales (1,330kg)
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Savings on Packaging Materials
No additional plastic packaging material is required for packing the thirty-eight bales of block rubber for shrink-wrap-on-metal pallet. This helps conserve the environment as plastic is not easily biodegradable.
In addition, there are additional cost savings on packaging materials as two additional bales are packed on each pallet. |
38 Bales (1,330kg) vs.
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Savings on Freight and Transport Charges
Containerized shipments for natural rubber require two-tier stacking. Thirty-eight bales of block rubber (or 1,330kg) and sixteen of these pallets (or 21,280kg) fit neatly into a 20-foot ISO container.
The conventional wood-based packaging and other reusable packaging systems can only accommodate 20,160kg. Clearly, there is an advantage of 1,120kg extra payload per container not achievable by other packaging systems.
The benefits of extra payload per container is multiplied many times over with repetitive large volume shipping, eliminating extra freight, transportation and packaging charges - making our pallets the ideal cost-saving packaging solution available today.
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Loading Capacity
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Shipping Load Efficiency
Our pallet nesting system achieves high shipping efficiency and effective maximum load by allowing more pallets to be nested into one another and stacked in sets. This is a highly efficient nesting system not achievable by other packaging systems such as metal crate or metal tray. |
Return Load Efficiency
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Transportation Cost Efficiency
The nesting and stacking system of the pallets allow for bulk transportation and distribution. Clearly, it has the lowest per unit cost for transportation charges, achieving maximum transportation cost efficiency. |
Transport Cost Efficiency
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Hexagonal Crate
Our Patented hexagonal crate is specially designed to enhance strength and durability. This unique design has semi-hexagonal corners that provide added strength to each corner.
The structure of a square corner is significantly weaker than a semi-hexagonal corner, thus increasing the risk of deformation or breakage when the weight supported becomes too heavy. Therefore, our hexagonal crate provides the best-added stacking-support strength with non-square corners. The crate is made of mild steel tubing and plates and does not require high tensile steel.
In addition, our hexagonal crate offers nesting and stacking; nests when empty and stacks when filled.
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Hexagonal Crate
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