Good Once, Good Forever

Proprietary Plastic Pallet Pool in the Automotive Industry: Sensitive components for car electronics require pallets that offer cleanliness and efficient protection against electrostatic charges. In order to be able to ensure the quality of the loading equipment over the long term, more and more companies are moving away from wooden pallets from the open pallet-exchange pool and using proprietary plastic pallets in their transportation circuit instead.

The Requirements

Companies that transport their products on loading equipment from the open pallet-exchange pool want a very high number of circuits with unchanging pallet quality. The goal is to not have to worry about issues like repairing, accepting, or exchanging defective wooden pallets but instead to be able to focus on the company's own essential logistics supply chain requirements:

  • Protecting the product against electrostatic charges
  • Ensuring absolute cleanliness in production
  • Products' electronic traceability
  • Automated transportation on roller tracks
  • Completely automated warehousing in high-rack storage
  • Proprietary markings on the pallets

The Solution: Nest E5

Plastic pallets have carved out a solid place in the automotive industry's logistics supply chains for good reasons. To distribute its products worldwide, automotive suppliers rely on our Nest E5 pallet made of recycled anti-static PE materials on account of these arguments:

  • Anti-static characteristics meet every requirement for protecting delicate electronic components. That makes reliance on expensive ESD pallets unnecessary.
  • Three attachable skids make it possible to transport the pallets in automated conveying systems.
  • Low fracture rates with high circulation rates make recycled plastic pallets the most economical solution within the closed transportation circuit.
  • Two bar code labels – optional via RFID transponder – make products electronically traceable.
  • Optional adapter pallets integrate into the pallets' cover structure and make it possible to transport even non-modular container sizes.

The success of the Nest E5 in the automotive industry shows that high-value logistics pallets made of recycled plastic are an economically sensible and an environmentally friendly alternative.

Facts

Facts

Nest E5

Dimensions: 1200 x 800 x 150 mm

Weight: 11,5 kg

Top deck: open (OD)

Bottom support: 3 runners (3R), snap-on
Material: slightly conductive recycled PE material, typical surface resistance of max.  1010 to 1012 ohms

Load capacities:

Static: 6400 kg

Dynamic: 1600 kg

Racking: 500 kg

Safety rim: 6 mm

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