Macro-perforated film: over €1 saved per pallet
Macro-perforated film stabilises a pallet of fruit and vegetables in a single pass of the wrapper and lets the produce breathe. In many fruit and vegetable warehouses the pallet still leaves with four corner boards, several straps and, often, a net: three consumables, three operations and three waste streams.
Aerix Packaging · Technical team
The perforations let cold air through during pre-cooling and storage and stop condensation building up inside the pallet. That moisture is what softens the cardboard boxes and ends up making the load give way.
At Aerix Packaging we see it in the warehouses we work with: replacing strapping and corner boards with our macro-perforated film saves more than €1 per pallet. For a warehouse shipping 100,000 pallets, that is over €100,000 a year. And it comes not only from the price of the consumables but also from operator time and a simpler process on the dock.
- +€1
- saved per pallet by replacing strapping and corner boards with macro-perforated film
- +€100,000
- a year for a warehouse shipping 100,000 pallets
The exact figures depend on each product, box and pallet height. That is why the study starts on the customer's line: we review how pallets are wrapped today, which wrapper fits best, the pre-stretch and the perforation pattern, and compare the cost per pallet before and after. That way the saving is measured with real data, not estimates.
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