When considering the use of paper pallets, whether they are manufactured using cardboard, corrugated, or pulp molding materials, recyclability is essential for reducing environmental impact.
However, ensuring the pallet maintains good quality and strength is equally important to reduce the risk of damage to the products and minimize losses during transportation.
Damaged goods trigger a series of events that pose challenges for a sustainable supply chain because once goods are lost or damaged in handling or transportation, there is likely to be a need to produce more goods, replace pallets, and transport the goods back to the manufacturer and, once again, to the customer.
All this disruption in the supply chain causes higher carbon emissions, spoiling your efforts to collaborate with environmental preservation.
To reduce the risk of damage to the goods and maintain a sustainable supply chain, companies need consider the following approaches when choosing the cardboard pallet:
1) Invest in Quality
Choose high-quality cardboard pallets that are designed to withstand the rigors of transportation and handling.
- Eltete’s cardboard pallet provides unbeatable strength and humidity resistance which cannot be found in other paper pallet solutions. The secret of the strength lies in high-quality raw material and the engineering applied to its components.
The base of the pallet, honeycomb board, has a hexagonal inner cellular structure that provides exceptional compression strength and rigidity. The pallet feet, PallRuns®, has been the strongest pallet foot in the market for over 20 years.
2) ISO, Testing and Standards
Check that the pallets have been tested for quality and strength.
Leading independent laboratories have tested Eltete’s cardboard pallets in different conditions and the results show up to 10 000 kgs of static compression strength on a 4-way pallet without failure.
3) Choose versatile solution
Opt for pallet materials that can be adjusted according to needs.
- Depending on the product, handling, or destination, we can recommend different options to optimize the cardboard pallet to meet the needs of strength and other requirements to work efficiently throughout the logistics chain.
💡We can supply you with the carton pallet components, Honeycomb board, and PallRuns® (pallet feet) for local assembly, minimizing the logistical and warehousing costs.
4) Promote Reduce, Replace, Recycle
Encourage the use of materials that can be easily reused and recycled.
- Eltete’s cardboard pallets are a single material made of fiber-based components and are manufactured following the our motto “3R-Reduce, Replace, Recycle".
By reducing the packaging materials, replacing unsustainable materials, and recycling with ease the materials, we are promoting significant reduction of carbon emissions.
5) Prioritize Sustainably Designed Pallets
Approach to pallets designed to balance human needs, environmental stewardship, and economic viability.
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Eltete's cardboard pallets are sustainably designed aiming to reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts throughout a product's lifecycle. This includes reducing resource consumption, eco-friendly manufacturing processes, minimizing pollution, and lowering energy use.
Our team can provide a carbon emissions calculation to our customers, helping them understand their impact on the environment.
6) Suppliers
Work closely with suppliers to assure the quality of what you need.
- At Eltete we understand the importance of good communication with our customers. We delivery what you need and keep transparency during the entire process so our customers are always up-to-date which impact positively their logistics chain.
Why do Eltete's cardboard pallets work?
In short, it works because it balances recyclability with strength. Its high quality allows it to be ideal for transporting light or heavy goods, making it an excellent alternative to heavy pallets such as wood, or light but unsustainable pallets such as plastic, and fragile pallets such as other paper-based pallets that don’t have the same engineering and sustainable design.
Eltete cardboard pallet is the ultimate sustainable alternative to help you reduce your overall costs and carbon emissions.
10 000 kg
of static compression strength
80 %
lighter than traditional pallets
96 %
lower CO2 than traditional pallets
By making informed decisions about pallet materials and focusing on recyclability, durability, and reliability, companies can contribute to a more sustainable supply chain while minimizing waste, resource consumption, and costs.
Contact us! Our team will discuss your needs, introduce you to the sustainable pallet solution and provide you with a CO2 calculation based on your case.
One Response
I totally agree when you said that the pallets have to be checked if they passed the quality and strength tests. It must be important that the day has been tested through those processes in order to ensure the companies that they are going to invest in materials that will withstand heavy loads. And I hope that various options that companies would have can also be recycled once they are done using them so that we do not add more to the waist going into the landfills.