Faced with the challenge of bringing to market a safe, sustainable wood pallet alternative that collectively offers both cost efficiency and sustainability, Crownhill has partnered and entered into a patent licence agreement with Lifdek to launch corrugated pallet technology in the marketplace.
Lifdek’s patented pallet designs offer a safe alternative to wood and plastic pallets and easily handle most pallet shipments in North America, which consist primarily of fast-moving consumables of less than 900 pounds per pallet. Lifdek’s pallets weigh less than eight pounds on average, compared to as much as 60 pounds for some block style pallets, which equates to useful savings for air freight applications billed by the pound.
“It’s time customers optimise their pallets to their pallet loads, rather than forcing their load configuration to accommodate today’s standard pallet dimensions. Eliminating just two inches of empty space on a pallet dimension would add enough room for four additional pallets of product in a fully cubed 53 foot trailer; that’s an 8% reduction in freight costs and emissions,” declares Joseph Danko, President of Lifdek Corporation.
Lifdek’s patented pallets can be designed specifically for the optimal load configuration of a customer’s products because they consist simply of two die-cut blanks that can be assembled on site in less than 30 seconds without glue.