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on rotating forks and tipped to remove the recycled matter. This tipping process, together with the weight and consistency of the wet-lap pulp, applies considerable stress on the pallets. As a solution, during the manufacturing process we incorporated a specially moulded section inside the pallets, to strengthen the design and offer further reinforcement to withstand manual handling. In early 2008, M-real ordered
4,500 pallets, which we delivered during a two-week period. The operation was so successful that the customer placed two further orders totalling 1,400 pallets.
Delivering newspapers to meet tight deadlines At the other end of the paper industry production line, we have been supplying plastics pallets to Associated Newspapers, one of the UK’s largest publishers of national newsprint. Associated Newspapers prints 24 million newspapers per week including the Daily Mail, the Metro, The Mail on Sunday and supplements You, Weekend, Travel Mail and Live. Tight deadlines mean that packaging solutions have to fit a very demanding schedule. The company’s print centres
print the newspapers ready for distribution to start at 10.30pm and distribute throughout the night to 90 different wholesale points who supply some 55,000 retailers. Distribution must be finished by 8am the next morning to ensure the newspapers are ready to go on sale.
The decision to switch to
plastics from wooden pallets 12 years ago significantly benefited Associated Newspapers’ loading logistics. As they use fully
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automated palletisers to load their pallets, using plastics pallets reduced the number of potential equipment jams; if a pallet gets stuck in the system, every minute spent fixing it means that hundreds of papers are not printed and targets are missed.
In 2011, Associated
Newspapers placed its first order with us for 4,000 IPS 1210 Medium M5R plastics pallets, which it continues to reuse and top up with additional orders, as and when required. Using robust plastics pallets
that are lighter than their wooden equivalent, helped Associated Newspapers reduce costs in transportation and fuel spending. Its also made a further saving by following our advice and switching from heavy duty plastic pallets to
medium duty ones. To ensure that newspapers
reach their readers on time, the supply chain has to be flawless at every stage. Associated Newspapers uses a specialist logistics management company for the hugely time critical task of distributing its newspapers. Each night an average of 88
vehicles arrive at 12 locations throughout the UK. Associated Newspapers uses double deck trailers that can carry up to 27.25 tonnes per vehicle. Using plastics pallets ensures that as much of this load as possible is taken up by newspapers and not heavy pallets, offering the best value for money on each trip. This can be 50,000 to 150,000 magazines or newspapers depending on the size and weight of each copy. We recommended
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customising the plastics pallets to make them both easy to identify and help avoid loss – a costly factor in the UK’s daily transportation of 12 million newspapers. Associated Newspapers chose a light grey colour pallet with a moulded-in insert with the message ‘This pallet remains the property of Associated Newspapers’. Once the newspapers have
been offloaded, the plastic pallets are collected by the logistics company’s drivers and returned to Associated Newspapers’ print centres ready for the entire process to start again the next day. * Jim Hardisty is managing
director at
Goplasticpallets.com More information from
Goplasticpallets.com on 44 1323 744 057 or email sales@
goplasticpallets.com
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