The palletless shipping unit is Product of the Year 2017
“Prozesstechnik“ praises the 2- and 4-Way pack from the Möllers Packaging Technology
“Tests prove: Exposed to inertial forces, the palletless pack is more stable than the variant with pallet. 4-Way is a prerequisite for being able to use the palletless pack universally. The advantages are by no means limited to export: Handling on the home market and truck logistics benefit considerably from the loading flexibility. It is a must to apply this future-oriented technology to a wide range of applications“, says Norbert Frenzel, Sales Manager of the Möllers Packaging Technology, referring to a special award for a special application: the readers of the specialist magazine “cav chemie anlagen verfahren“ and “Prozesstechnik online“ have selected the palletless shipping unit as the Top-Product of the Year 2017!
In December the Möllers team was able to congratulate its Lübeck-based subsidiary Greif-Velox which was also honored with the Velovac vacuum packer as Product of the Month. Now the surprise: The palletless shipping unit was voted Product of the Year among twelve competing products.
The 4-Way palletless pack, the further development of the 2-Way shipping unit, impressed already at the world premiere in the context of the latest Dusseldorf K – the world’s most important trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry. There, the stack rests on a specially-stabilized, reduced in weight four-layer configuration. The remaining central area under the recess is filled 100 per cent with bagged material. The base films, apart from their carrying function, with their high puncture-resistance, also fulfil all-round protection of the pack base.
Advantages at a glance:
- The 4-Way palletless pack weighs 1450kg
- With palletless technology merely 40 per cent of the usual wrapping costs apply. Moreover it has an up to 5.5 per cent higher utilization rate in 40' containers.
- Thanks to greatest transport stability and water resistance, the palletless pack can be stored in any location – and is thus the perfect transport unit even for long export routes.
- Palletless technology convinces with greatest energy efficiency.
- Pick-up from four sides also saves valuable time when handling in the warehouse and outside areas.
- Time- and cost-intensive logistics for empty pallets are eliminated.
- Pallet costs are eliminated, the film load-unit is completely recyclable and thanks to reduced CO2 emissions results in a positive “carbon footprint“.
- Of course the 4-Way palletless technology is retrofittable for 2-Way systems at any time.
