Steel Pallet Systems
Lightweight, Economical, Extra Strong, Durable, Galvanised Steel Pallets – Alternative to Wood and Plastic. Email: steelpalletsystems@gmail.com.
Average six pallets per tree (THEY SAY). This one is over 100 years old. Regrowth is one thing BUT economically reusable steel material is another. So it has to be galvanized and lightweight.
Posted on 5 October 2022 | 12:11 pm
THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO LOAD TEST
This lightweight design objective was not just to carry the variable and necessary load(s) but to ensure vital lateral stability in transit. There is more than one way to check load capacity. See below a 0.9mm steel pallet test one in Australia and one in China. Both successful. In the first picture the inverted wood pallet’s purpose was intended to spread the load across the entire pallet surface below and obviously not not for transit.
Pocket money spread a long way in 2007.
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Posted on 19 June 2022 | 5:05 pm
CHEP
The picture attached shows a package of five pallets sent to CHEP USA in 2005. Nothing came of it. Being present the instruction to “wreck them” was heard after certain testing, and they did. But external measured and accurate results which were needed at the time were obtained. The early stage pallets passed the tests in 2005 except the corner drop test, understandably, and fork tine impact, again understandably – the test regime was set up for wood pallets. Those people (engineers) after some years are no longer with CHEP.
Posted on 19 June 2022 | 1:08 pm
ONE COST COMPARISON BY OTHERS
THIS IS JUST ONE COMPARISON METHOD WITH A KEY POINT AND PURPOSE.
THERE IS MORE TO IT.
Posted on 8 May 2022 | 8:05 pm
A Different World
Certain plans did not come to fruition. Good. The world today would have messed things up.
BUT THE BASIS HAS NOT CHANGED. JUST SOME DETAILS. IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME.
Posted on 14 April 2022 | 9:21 pm
PLASTIC DOES FRAGMENT
Under sunlight plastic eventually hardens, becomes brittle, and fragments.
Plastic is NOT the durable solution. It may be a temporary solution.
Steel (GALVANIZED) will win today and tomorrow.
Posted on 16 December 2021 | 1:47 pm
SERIOUSLY HEAVY DUTY
Expandable, contractible, variable, reversible, adjustable, hardwood lead edges, you name it, made possible with enduring light gauge galvanized steel. A heavy trial unit. We called it “the Beast”.
Posted on 2 December 2021 | 6:59 pm
CHINA WELDED PALLET 1000 X 800 4 WAY
JUST ANOTHER VERSION. THE SURFACE FINISH MEANS RUST IS INEVITABLE.
Posted on 7 September 2021 | 6:56 pm
THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO DO THINGS
Yes CHEAP at first but MOST EXPENSIVE in the end.
More to come.
Posted on 27 August 2021 | 8:39 pm
A SAD END
A ONE WAY TRIP TO AN INEVITABLE END.
A few of hundreds of millions and paid for in the waste process unlike galvanized steel which is sold.
Posted on 24 August 2021 | 8:55 pm
Email contact: steelpalletsystems@gmail.com
Posted on 17 August 2021 | 9:04 pm
ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN MFG STEEL
An Indicative Energy Perspective – Steel versus Plastic
(With Acknowledgement)
Any HDPE plastic pallet weighing 35kg requires 805 KwH of energy for production.
This is equivalent to 120kg of coal.
It takes about 1.76kg of petroleum to produce one kg of HDPE. This steel pallet, the 25kg repeat use version, requires only 124 KwH of energy to produce by comparison. This is equivalent to 18.6kg of coal and about 15% of that needed for HDPE. Also the energy cost to recycle a badly damaged steel pallet is 15 KwH or about 12% of a new one. This is under 2% of the energy required for a new HDPE pallet. Each steel pallet is infinitely recyclable for the same product without degrading material quality.
Recycling in decades to come will be even more energy efficient using the base stockpile than from new steel production. That is the BIG picture. From a production perspective and an energy consumption basis steel is the clear (and green) winner over plastic by 85%.
Posted on 26 May 2021 | 1:08 pm
Example of Wood Pallet Repair Volumes
IPP expands pallet damage repair coverage in UK October 2020
Credit Rick Le Blanc
IPP has established a new service center to serve as the platform for further growth in the UK south east. The strategically located facility in Grays, Essex which will process more than half a million reusable pallets within the first year. This site is an addition to the company’s existing network which include the £2.5 million fully-automated repair and repatriation center at Bardon Hill, Leicestershire. That operation processes in excess of 700 pallets per hour – a capacity of six million each year.
The new pallet inspection and repair service center, which began operations in the summer, is operated by S&R Smith and Son Logistics, a long-standing south east distribution specialist and transport partner for IPP who has also gained much experience in operating circular economy models.
Located next to the Thames, the service center will support IPP’s growth having the capacity to inspect and repair more than 1.3 million pallets per year.
Etc. credit Rick LeBlanc
Posted on 22 May 2021 | 8:59 pm
Pallet Supply Shortages USA
Supply weakness applies in other distribution channels as well. Will this worsen? It seems so.
Posted on 21 May 2021 | 3:07 pm
A Pallet Material Comparison
This by others is from 20 years ago so increase the unit costs accordingly. Steel is not mentioned and aluminum (U.S. spelling) is being pushed. These days things are different. The average two year lifespan for a wooden pallet seems similar today including repairs. Available coated thin gauge steel is no longer “heavy” repairable if necessary and certainly durable. Today in bulk and mass produced the steel cost is a winner.
Posted on 31 January 2021 | 2:59 pm
ONE PALLET PER HEAD OF POPULATION
Generally speaking, as a rule of thumb, there is ONE PALLET PER HEAD OF POPULATION IN AN INDUSTRIAL “DEVELOPED” COUNTRY, with some more and some less.
Posted on 4 December 2020 | 7:19 pm
ANOTHER FAIL
THIS TIME IN ASIA. ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO.
ANOTHER OF THE ‘GO IT ALONE’ ATTEMPT. FOUR WAY ENTRY TOO.
THE INDUSTRY MUST BE FILLED WITH EGOS.
DON’T GET ADDED TO THE LIST. WHAT A WASTE.
Posted on 25 November 2020 | 4:04 pm
EARTHQUAKE FLOORING
The customer used an assembly of our steel pallets as anti earthquake flooring on which to install highly sensitive and valuable electronic equipment. This was installed in an Asian earthquake prone area.
Posted on 21 November 2020 | 8:14 pm
35 YEAR HISTORY
The history of the lightweight steel pallet development in writings, publishing and photos goes back a mere 35 years, before you were born. The main thrust began early 2003 and is not finished. The data is saved for a book.
Posted on 7 November 2020 | 10:10 am
SIDE SLEEVES NEW
In future a “side sleeve” will be provided over those metal corrugations.
At 0.9mm thick they are not ‘sharp” edges but this removes the impression they are and provides for increased safety. Wood can have sharp splinters. Most pallets today are moved mechanically. Latest pallets have flat stronger lead edges plus bearer end plates.
Posted on 2 October 2020 | 9:47 am
Global Wood Pallet Demand to reach 5.8 billion units by 2024
Headline from RICK LEBLANC and Fredonia Group.
That on a annual basis signifies A LOT of scrap and wastage.
What is a solution OR the solutions, plural.
Plastic has had years to address the the challenge and succeed, but has not.
An essential part of a solution below
Early days but on the way.
And plenty of it.
Posted on 29 June 2020 | 11:41 am
Lightweight Steel Pallet on Forks
A lightweight steel pallet, Australian standard style, early days (IP granted and in process for the system worldwide).
Posted on 20 June 2020 | 7:47 pm
Worthington Steelpac Pallet (USA)
Another one. What happened? You do the check.
It used welds as component fixing so affecting the design.
Posted on 5 June 2020 | 10:10 pm
Wasted Wood Pallets
What happens next? Wood chips? Is it the product or the system, or just supply and demand or….?
Posted on 5 June 2020 | 7:53 am
Boise, Idaho, two steel pallets sent.
Two Bailey Pallet 48×40 samples air freighted to Boise Idaho USA.
Posted on 23 May 2020 | 8:17 pm
The Day Will Come
SPS skid pallet variant
The day of the economical lightweight steel pallet as an alternative to wood and plastic and expensive composites will come.
Rightly set up that day will come with virus like impact.
The Day Will Come.
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Posted on 29 February 2020 | 1:17 pm
TORO Metal Pallet – Gone
They came, they tried, they believed, they thought they knew, but they did not.
The TORO metal pallet did not survive. One wonders why….
Nor did some plastics.
Posted on 8 February 2020 | 10:11 pm
RM2 International A.I.M. (L.S.E.) De-Listing 20th January 2020
RM2 International de listed (or traded until) from the A.I.M. Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange on 20th January 2020.
Look at the company website for more information and a newer auction based alternative for investors.
RM2 listed six years ago with a 4 way entry plastic pallet. Shatter (a holder) said on the LSE share chat it was UKP300-400 million down the the toilet.
Is a recovery likely? So you want to start anew???
DO YOU GET THE POINT, OR NOT?
OR….
Posted on 4 February 2020 | 5:36 pm
SCRAPPED PALLETS
What to do? Single trip. Delivered under load, emptied and left. No recycling. Hardwood. Industry source said six pallets equals one tree…….there are more, not just here but around the planet.
It is not the tip of an iceberg, more like the tip of Mt. Everest.
North America does have specialized re-cyclers, who collect, repair if necessary and resell. But elsewhere???
Posted on 3 February 2020 | 11:33 am
Fires
There is a slight post holdup and diversion with fires at the moment. Too close for comfort. Evacuated once so far. Steel lightweight pallets do not combust in bush fires.
Posted on 9 January 2020 | 10:29 pm
Hundreds of Photographs
There are hundreds of photographs and images on the lightweight steel pallet that you have not seen including for example the use of a welded assembly method.
Posted on 16 December 2019 | 9:55 am
RM2 International & IGPS
It has been over five years since RM2 International listed on the LSE with a new trackable plastic pallet. Five years and MILLIONS expended. Today it is tottering on a brink, not necessarily the end, just a brink. The history is public and available. They had a chance years ago to run with the lightweight steel pallet as an alternative but declined. Maybe it is just as well.
Is it going the same way as IGPS U.S.A. (Intelligent Global Pooling Systems)?
Those who know, know. Those who don’t, won’t, and likely never will.
What is next after plastic that economically will fulfil the role of the pallet?
Posted on 9 August 2019 | 3:37 pm
Wonderful
Official. Ethiopia plants 350,000,000 tree seedlings within one day. Setting the example. Good.
Posted on 31 July 2019 | 7:03 pm
BEAUTIFUL WOOD
A public photo on the net. Some of these trees from Africa took 500 years to grow. I have seen this quality used for pallets. Not so good. Hardwood forests should be protected and the wildlife inhabitants. What is left for pallets? Fast growing pine!
Or something else.
Photo deleted.
Posted on 14 June 2019 | 10:13 am
A WASTED PALLET
The picture shows a deserted pallet (Australian style) after the load had been removed. No one wanted it back. What did it cost someone? That is buried in the logistics figures. It is leaning against an electricity post, originally a tree trunk, so you can get a feel for how much tree went into that unwanted pallet. Look closely, the wood is thick, hard and heavy. Greenies – where are you?
Posted on 31 May 2019 | 11:41 am
TROPICAL FOREST TREE LOSS 2018
Around 12 million hectares of forest in the world’s tropical regions were lost in 2018, equivalent to 30 football fields per minute.
While this represents a decline on 2016 and 2017, it is still the fourth highest rate of loss since records began in 2001.
Of particular concern is the continued destruction of what are termed primary forests.
An area of these older, untouched trees the size of Belgium was lost in 2018.
Global Forest Watch and BBC 25th April 2-2019 https://www.globalforestwatch.org/
Posted on 25 April 2019 | 9:13 pm
1 BILLION PALLETS PER YEAR
At least 1,000,000,000 pallets are produced NEW every year. This is conservative. It is likely 50% more than that. According to industry estimates the smaller figure equates to 166,000,000 tress cut down for processing softwood and hardwood. They have to be regrown. Do you see an as yet unrecognized problem looming?
What about the greenhouse gas effect? Wait till the “greenies” wake up to this and then government.
Plastic pallets are not a long lasting solution. They originate from oil.
Lightweight steel? This is another thing currently overlooked, but not for long.
Posted on 23 April 2019 | 9:42 am
Mexico Patent Granted
Some details deleted (hidden) but accessible.
A bit of history, just a little bit. There is a lot more.
Posted on 30 March 2019 | 5:24 pm
