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Plastic Pallet Terms

Automatic Palletizers – Assemble products on pallets by themselves or with little assistance; often part of a larger shipping system.
 
Bag Palletizers – Devices with gripping modifications specifically designed to arrange bags on pallets for shipping and/or movement; may be in-line or robotic.

Blue Palletizers – A pallet with its sides painted blue, indicating it is owned by the rental company CHEP.
 
Captive Pallet – A pallet which stays within a facility and is not exchanged, traded or delivered off-site.
 
Corrugated Plastic – A product typically extruded from polypropylene that has been fluted in a way that is similar to corrugated board and is waterproof, durable, resistant to chemicals, available in a variety of transparent and translucent colors and has a good strength to weight ratio.
 
Deck – The side of the pallet that faces upward or downward.
 
Eight-way Pallet – A pallet that permits forklift entry on all four sides, as well as diagonally at each corner.
 
Fork Entry – The entry place for forks to move the pallet, usually between decks or under the top deck.

Four-way Pallet – A pallet that permits forklift entry into all four sides.
 
Hygienic – Promoting health; sanitary.
 
Manual Palletizers – Speed the stacking goods onto a pallet and aid with layer organization.
 
Nesting – The capability of containers of different sizes to be placed one inside another.

Non-reversible Pallet – A pallet that cannot be used when turned upside down, either because it has no boards or have a limited number of bottom boards.
 
One-way Pallet – An expendable pallet made of low-quality materials intended to be shipped once and then disposed of.

Orange Pallet – A pallet with its sides painted orange, indicating it is part of the Canadian Pallet Council pallet pool.

Racked Across Deckboards – The maximum load carrying capacity and deflection of a pallet where, at the ends of the deckboards, the rack frame sustains the pallet.
 
Racked Across Stringers - The maximum carrying capacity of a pallet where, only at the ends of the stringers or stringer boards, the rack frame sustains the pallet.

Reversible Pallet - A pallet that has deck boards spaced identically on top and bottom, permitting the pallet to be reversed.
 
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) – A device that ranges in size from small enough to be inserted into a label on a package to a paperback book that is attached to an object and transmits data to a receiver; able to hold more data than barcodes, does not require line-of-sight to transfer data and is highly effective in harsh environments.
 
Rotationally molded plastic ( rotationallymoldedplastics.com )- Common form of production for plastic pallets because of the resulting strength, seamlessness and availability of custom designs.
 
Skid – A pallet that has not bottom boards (also known as a “single-deck pallet).

Slave Pallet – A panel used to support the base of a palletized load in rack-storage facilities.
 
Stringers – Boards located between the bottom and top deck boards of a pallet.

Two-way Pallet – A pallet that permits forklift entry in the two opposite pallet ends only.
 
Unit Load – The collecting of goods to be moved or shipped onto a pallet.

White Pallet – Pallets not painted or marked to indicate their ownership.