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Smart Retur Plastic pallets reduce transport costs
The low total weight (14.9 kg) of our plastic pallets is a significant factor when it comes to transport costs. Considerably less weight equals less overall shipping cost.
Reduce product damage and increase cleanliness
No nails to damage products. No humidity and fungus to affect goods. A friction even better than wooden pallets. Reduce cleaning cost and increase cleanliness impression at your warehouse/shops
Because of a plastic pallet’s consistent dimensions, top deck coverage, and the absence of nails and splintered wood, there will be far less chance for damage. Our reusable plastic pallets are much more user friendly than their wood counterparts. Less damage to goods, also means less chance of being rejected by your receiving customers
Smart Retur Plastic pallets are more hygienic
Because wood can absorb all sorts of liquids and other substances, it can be quite unhygienic. While wood pallets are almost impossible to wash or sanitize, plastic pallets can easily be cleaned to much higher standards.
With the organic nature of wood itself, traditional pallets are more easily damaged. In fact, they damage easily and frequently, leaving pieces of wood behind. Plastic pallets significantly cut down on wood and dirt across your warehouse floor as the plastic is not going to break, splinter or fall apart the way traditional wood pallets do.
Smart Retur Plastic pallets give greater ease of use
Because our plastic pallets are lighter and have handles on each side, they are much easier for a single person to move around. A wooden pallet could weigh up to 30 kg when soaked by water.
With its constant weight, personnel injuries can easily be reduced over time using Smart Retur plastic pallets.
Improve Automation
With its unique twin sheet construction & consistent dimensions, our pallets help your equipment run better.
Proven by over 13 years at retailers' automated warehouses across Norway and Sweden, this pallet has become the new standard for high scale automation
Track and trace enabled pallets
With 4 RFID-tags, the pallet enables customers to track their movements if their warehouses and systems are prepared for it. In a track&trace solution, wooden pallets have to be labeled with external RFID labels (often one time usage), hence a higher running cost
Why Choose Plastic Pallet Pooling at Smart Retur?
As the leading reverse logistics provider in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, we provide services for all your wooden pallets/pallets products similar to a “bank solution”.
In addition, we now run plastic pallet pooling services across different markets. We take care of plastic pallet procurement, management, repairs and general maintenance to ensure lower operating costs and optimum efficiency for our customers. And most important of all, we will always guarantee deliveries of plastic pallets due to our size in the Nordic market. The combination of pooling, wooden pallet banking and general buying/selling of wooden pallets, all of your choice, makes Smart Retur an ideal total service provider for you as a customer. Our versatile business setups in close interaction with our customers gives us the label “Mr Fix”.
Smart Retur plastic pallet pooling is for customers who:
10x
longer durability than traditional wooden pallets
35%
lower CO2 emissions compared to conventional pallets
Moving toward even better sustainability with Smart Retur plastic pallets
We have learned over the course of the past decade that there is no benefit to doing things in the way that they have always been done. Companies have to constantly change and innovate their operation in order to stay ahead of their competitors and continue to run successful and profitable businesses with an increasing focus on sustainability.
While some may argue that wood pallets can be more recyclable and biodegradable, the overall amount of production is higher than with plastic pallets. A substantial part of all the timber (approx. 20%) in Europe is being used to produce new wooden pallets. This huge volume of timber leads to cutting down large areas of forests every year. Forests is by far this planets largest CO2 absorber.
Given the fact that several countries struggle to meet the agreed EU CO2 forest absorption goals, the use of long life Smart Retur plastic pallets is a massive and real contribution to obtain a smaller overall carbon footprint. This real carbon footprint reduction will be reported to all of our customers based in their own data at Smart Retur.
The benefit of Smart Retur plastic pallets is that they can be used over and over again over several decades (reuse & recycling). And when you couple plastic pallets with a plastic pallet pooling company like Smart Retur, that will also take care of your wooden pallets, you’ll truly maximize use.
Even though pallets are a tool that we rely on heavily, they are often a source of frustration for users. The markets constantly deal with sorting and organizing, moving and stacking, getting rid of damaged or broken pallets and disputing of different pallet qualities throughout the supply chain.
The next step is to find a way to get them back to the start of the supply chain. How to store them, how to recycle them, or how to dispose of them. Some businesses even feel it is less hassle to dispose of these pallets after every single use. This is not a sustainable or eco-friendly approach and costs more money, in the long run, to continue operating in such a way as you are constantly needing to replace pallets and cut down forest.
Reduce carbon emissions
Smart Retur's unique lightweight and 100% recyclable pallets have over 30% less impact on global warming due to a documented long life span (15-20 years).
One possible and easy fix?
Plastic pallet pooling at Smart Retur
What Is Pallet Pooling?
Because of the many experienced issues with wooden Euro pallets and general sustainability within most marked places, an increasing number of companies are turning to pallet pooling providers. They are doing this as a means for managing their own pallet use, becoming more sustainable, and cutting costs with managing and handling their pallets.
A pallet pooling company is one that owns, organizes, and transports pallets so that individual businesses don’t have to. If you’re working with a pallet pooling company, you’re essentially renting the materials you need for transporting goods.
Your business would pay a fee and the pallet pooling company would be responsible for everything else. This means making sure that there is a sufficient supply, that all pallets are in good working condition, and that they are ready for use when needed.
Once these pallets have been used, the pallet pooling company takes care of all the reverse logistics. The pallets are moved backward through the supply chain, in order to recover and reuse them. An added benefit is that this cuts down on waste, and over time, also on the total cost of business.
Working with a pallet pooling company is definitely a step in the right direction when it comes to better sustainability practices. But what if we could take this quest for sustainability a step further?