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 lowering costs, corporations in many major industries are realizing the hygienic, environmental and safety advantages of the metal pallet type compared to plastic pallets.

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.

Plastic pallets also can be a dangerous fire hazard in warehouses particularly when stored in large quantities. Metal pallets are not flammable even in the worst fires.

Plastic pallets are not as strong as metal pallets, crush under heavy loads quicker and are more dangerous when stacked with unstable loads. As a result, replacing plastic pallets with metal pallets in a warehouse often lowers workplace injures.

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.

When placed in an open racking system our 48 x 40 metal slave pallets are rated to 3500 pounds in comparison to the 2200 pounds or less that most plastic pallets can handle.

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