⑴ The material of the existing pallet
A preliminary investigation by the Pallet Professional Committee of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing shows that China now has about 50 to 70 million pallets of various types, and the annual output increases by about 20 million. Among them, wooden flat pallets accounted for about 90%, plastic flat pallets accounted for 8%, steel pallets, composite pallets and paper pallets together accounted for 2%. The proportion of composite flat pallets and plastic pallets rising is relatively large.
⑵ Standards and main specifications
Currently, China's pallet specifications are quite confusing. In addition to the 800mm×1000mm and 500mm~800mm pallets specified by JB3003-81 in the mechanical industry system, in 1996, the Research Institute of the Ministry of Communications of China also proposed to make ISO6780:1988 "Main Dimensions and Tolerances of Universal Flat Pallets for Intermodal Transport" equivalent Adopted as the national standard for Chinese pallets. Later, the former National Bureau of Technical Supervision approved and issued this equivalent standard with the GB/T2934-1996 standard series document number, which included 4 pallet specifications of 1200mm×1000mm, 1200mm×800mm, 1140mm×1140mm and 1219mm×1016mm.
⑶ Turnover method
Statistics from the Pallet Professional Committee show that, at this stage, the use of Chinese pallets is basically the internal turnover of the enterprise. For production enterprises, the pallets owned by them are not out of the enterprise, and the use of pallets is limited to the handling from the enterprise's warehouse to the transportation link. For logistics companies, pallets are also limited to their internal deployment and use, and a mechanism for the smooth circulation of pallets has not yet been formed.
⑷ Pallet work situation
The development of pallets can be said to be synchronized with forklifts. The joint use of forklifts and pallets forms an effective loading and unloading system, which greatly improves the loading and unloading efficiency. From a statistical point of view, pallets are basically used with forklifts. On average, each forklift is equipped with 800~1000 pallets.
