We use pallet to place raw material, finished goods, chemicals, packing materials and so on in factory. it is important to using the right pallet so to ease house keeping and to avoid pest infestation. Let's check it out ...
There are 2 type of pallets - wooden type and plastic type. Wooden pallet is not allowed to be used in Food factory. it is because wood absorb moisture and easily being a carrier of pest. As we can notice, there are sometimes cockroaches eggs at the bottom part of wooden pallet.
Plastic pallet could be used in Food Industries. We should choose hygienic pallet as the smooth surface ease cleaning and sanitation. Besides, this kind of pallet also could withstand weight until 3000kg.
For pallet that is used once (for the purpose of delivering goods to customers) - One Way Pallet. It is lighter as it had cavity and so it is suitable for delivery. Because of the design, it is not easy to be cleaned and so it is not advisable to be used for long time. To avoid contamination, the goods and the One Way pallet can be wrapped with Shrink Wrap palstic using Auto Palettizing machine.
If there are pallet to be used at Cold Room, we should choose special pallet that can withstand low temperature - Virgin HDDPE/HDPP. Otherwise, the normal plastic can be fragile after long time keeping in very low temperate.
Credit: Sir Mohd Khairul Azli Sahrom
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