What Is The Current Status Of Plastic Pallets?

There are large plastic pallets in the process of commodity circulation and transportation, and small ones for cleaning vegetables in supermarkets. Whether they are large or small, this industry is developing very fast. It is understood that plastic pallets are in a period of rapid growth in China. About 80 million pallets are needed for domestic circulation every year, of which 20 million are used by ports (for export), and the total demand will increase further. Although plastic pallets are late on the market and relatively high in cost, they are still growing at a rate of more than 10% every year.

Plastic pallets are new products that were promoted and used abroad in the 1970s and 1980s. Compared with traditional wooden pallets, it has the characteristics of light weight, water resistance, moisture resistance, cleanliness, high hardness, and strong recyclability. However, the promotion and application in the domestic market has been affected by various factors such as price and has been struggling.

In recent years, the plastic pallet market has quietly changed, especially the market demand has greatly increased. The main influencing factors are: the country has increased its control of deforestation, and the cost of wood has risen sharply; foreign transportation has become more and more demanding on wooden pallets, which has stimulated the use of plastic pallets; people’s awareness of environmental protection has increased and the national environmental protection regulations have improved. The advantages of recyclability of plastic pallets appear; the rapid development of my country's ethylene production scale has reduced the cost of raw materials for the production of plastic pallets, and the price is no longer a disadvantage of plastic pallets. The national railway department officially stated that the use of wooden pallets in railway transportation will be prohibited in the future, coupled with rumors that the food, medicine and other industries may also ban wooden pallets in two years, causing the number of orders for plastic pallets from these industries to rise linearly. trend.