Thursday 22 August 2013

What To Consider When Buying Pallet Covers

By Celina Heath


To ensure that your merchandise is protected against the elements and other dangers that might arise in both freight and storage, it is important to find just the right type of pallet covers to use. There are a range of factors to consider as the guidelines given below will illustrate. However, this being a beginner's guide to the topic, it is necessary to cover the basics first.

Many people outside the wholesale business have ever heard of pallets as containers for shipping merchandise and freight. Inside the familiar metal shipping containers, you will find compact wooden packages which contain the actual merchandise being shipped, they are the items referred to as pallets in shipping and warehousing jargon.

Once the shipping containers have reached their destination, the merchandise is taken off and distributed in the applets. Being wooden in nature, such pallets are often prone to damage and wearing caused by the elements. The covers are therefore important to ensure the goods inside remain in mint condition until they reach the consumer.

The most highly recommended pallet cover material has to be polyethylene, a durable tough affordable form of plastic sheeting material. As a savvy consumer, it is important to go beyond the enticing sales pitch and ascertain on your own that indeed the material on offer is the genuine item with the right thickness for durability. If the thickness can be certified to be 2 millimeters at the very least, you can be certain that the covering sheet will live up to the billing.

For users with multiple pallets to cover, there is little choice but to buy the covering sheets in bulk, sometimes for pallets that are yet to be shipped from overseas. The best providers in the business understand that convenience is just as important as the right shape when it comes to such items as covering sheets. They will therefore provide the covers in easy to use dispensing devices that include some handy perforations on the side so that the covering sheets can be laid out meticulously on the factory floor before the sheets are used to cover the pallets.

While it is true that in recent years there has been a set of standards accepted in the shipping industry in the design of pallets, there are some exceptions. Indeed, you will find that while some pallets are short in height, some are uniformly taller than they are wide. This distinction is an important consideration to have in mind as you order cover designs for your pallets.

The best designs available should be robust enough to ensure that they can be used over again without being less effective. This versatility is a keenly sough feature by businesses keen to cut on costs. Moreover, such recyclable covers are good for the environment as they help you cut on plastic wastes your business generates each year.

Businesses are largely built on the concept of providing goods in the same mint condition they left the factory floor in. While in storage, your business merchandise can undergo damage if not properly covered. The best pallet covers will however come in handy as has been shown above.




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