In the last few months, Ohio based company Compliance Packaging International Ltd. published a new website highlighting heavy duty 48 x 40 metal pallets that out perform plastic pallets in several key ways.

Our metal pallets offer better long term savings than other metal pallets and plastic pallets because of their affordability and durability. Companies in a wide variety of industries that desire the lowest cost per trip over time have tested and discovered our metal pallets are less expensive than plastic pallets.

In addition to lower costs, warehouse managers prefer metal pallets to plastic pallets because of their environmental, safety and hygienic features.

Companies which must operate with strict sanitary conditions find metal pallets are better than plastic pallets because users can wash, disinfect and treat metal pallets to be more bacteria resistant than plastic pallets.

While the metal pallet is not flammable and cannot be ignited in a fire, the plastic pallet creates a serious fire danger in warehouses especially when concentrated in large numbers.

Plastic pallets are less durable than metal pallets, collapse under weight quicker and are less sturdy when stacked. A related benefit of metal pallets is fewer injuries in the workplace from broken pallets.

Metal pallets also can extend their lifespan and return on investment by being repaired. Plastic pallets cannot be fixed when cracked or broken.

Plastic pallets also afford less protection during shipping compared with metal pallets. Our metal pallets are rated to carry static loads of up to 40000 pounds and dynamic load up to 10000 pounds greatly exceeding the capacity of most plastic pallets on the world market place.

In open edge racking systems our 48 x 40 metal slave pallets hold up to 3500 pounds compared to the 2200 pounds or less that plastic pallets typically carry.

Metal is also the most recycled material in the world saving more energy and material than plastic when recovered.