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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Ask a Mustachian => Topic started by: Bearblastbeats on February 02, 2017, 07:50:51 AM
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A client of mine is looking to steer away from a pallet wrapper and wants to move forward with a system that will put a sleeve or a bag over the pallet.
I ran a few google searches but can;t seem to find something useful.
Any engineers or salesmen familiar with material handling and could point me in a direction?
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Interesting. All our suppliers have the spinny-wrappy automated pallet wrapper. I am sure you can tell from my description that this is an area of expertise for me ;)
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I worked for a company that had both. IIRC, the sleeve style wrapper was much more temperamental. It required a machine to blow the bag open and it would fail regularly, which in turn required an employee to babysit the machine.
I also found the wrapped pallets were more stable with the extra compression, but this might not matter depending on your product.
I'm afraid it was long enough ago that I can't remember who the supplier was. If a search doesn't turn anything up though, there might be a good reason for it.
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Interesting. All our suppliers have the spinny-wrappy automated pallet wrapper. I am sure you can tell from my description that this is an area of expertise for me ;)
I worked with one of those before! They're fun.
The only thing I can think of when I hear 'bagged' pallets is loose material filled into a single giant bag, which is then palleted.
Depending on material (Bags? Boxes?) and shipping method (Rail cars? - often loose items are unpaleted and used to fill in the dead space in rail cars, so bagging might pose problematic), there are probably pros and cons to each system.
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From a technical perspective, you may have better luck on an automation forum instead of a financial forum.
Idk if your application would fall under robotic (robotforums) or if there is a special forum for packaging.
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I implemented Pallet wrappers (reuseable blankets instead of shrinkwrap), but those were manually applied.
Usually people just go with adding cardboard boxes for the product (or plastic trays), and banding / tieing, when they want to avoid the pallet wrapper.