pallets made of plastic.Plastic pallets are more widely used in Europe than in the rest of the world.Plastic pallets are often chosen over traditional wood pallets because they offer benefits which wood can not.Some benefits over wood include the ability to easily sanitize plastic pallets,resistance to odor,longer service life span,and lighter weight,thus saving transportation and labor costs.
Lately Schoeller Arca Systems (World Largest Manufacter of edge-rackable plastic pallets) created a plastic pallet with built-in track and trace system by using an RFID tracking system
There are 6 main types of plastic processes that are used to make pallets.
* High Pressure Injection Molding
* Structural Foam Molding
* Thermoforming
* Compression Molding
* Rotational Molding
* Profile Extrusion