Exporta already supplies a comprehensive range of rigid and collapsible plastic pallet boxes, but by talking to its customers, it identified a gap in the market for a very lightweight but robust and reusable crate.
These cardboard crates are pallet boxes made from very strong 15 millimetre or 25 millimetre reinforced cardboard. Designed for air freight usage in mind, when combined with a lightweight nestable plastic pallet these crates can significantly reduce the volumetric cost of shipping by air. They have been designed to fit three standard pallet sizes, namely Standard, Half Euro and Euro.
These crates are much lighter than any wooden or plastic crate and far stronger than any normal cardboard box. The toughest can take 500 kiloggammes stacked on top and because they are collapsible, they can be shipped back to the source in a stack, thus saving on return costs. They can be used again and again and so last longer and are more environmentally friendly when compared to single use cardboard boxes.
Reusable and returnable box and crate solutions are growing for environmental and longer-term cost savings. Single use plastics and cardboard products are initially cheaper to purchase but over an extended period of time, multi-use solutions result in savings and reduce the environmental impact as long as there is a return loop and reuse programme in place.