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Hi guys, I am working for a company who is having major problems with rolls of product, which are stacked side on, on pallets, collapsing during transit. These offer health and safety concerns for offloading at customer end. Stillages or major step changes are not practical, but we are investigating alternative ways of securing the rolls to make them more stable during handling and transit. Does anyone have any experience in this area or have any ideas on solutions? Thanks
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You will get better response if yo describe the load in more detail. Very different solutions for rolls of toilet paper or rolls of newsprint, rolls of lead roofing, rolls of staircarpet....
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Are the rolls fitting on a 1m x 1.2m standard pallet? What is the typical weight? Is there an option to reduce the coil size?
Sorry I'm trying to help but could do with some more information.
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As a supplier your duties extend to the end user - it is no good getting a pallet to them in one piece if as soon as they start to remove "packaging" (stretch/shrink wrap, banding) the load collapses on to their operatives - do you have any customer feed-back / suggestions? We had this once with 1.5m wide x 200mm diameter products - the supplier had placed two bands around the pallet and load which was pyramid stacked.
Their next response was to band each roll through its core to the pallet individually - lots of waste and the problem of which band to cut first/next/last.
Finally they added bespoke load battens (shaped cut outs akin to stillages) between each layer of rolls.
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As a supplier your duties extend to the end user - it is no good getting a pallet to them in one piece if as soon as they start to remove "packaging" (stretch/shrink wrap, banding) the load collapses on to their operatives - do you have any customer feed-back / suggestions? We had this once with 1.5m wide x 200mm diameter products - the supplier had placed two bands around the pallet and load which was pyramid stacked.
Their next response was to band each roll through its core to the pallet individually - lots of waste and the problem of which band to cut first/next/last.
Finally they added bespoke load battens (shaped cut outs akin to stillages) between each layer of rolls.
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As a starter for ten have a look at the HSE link below:
- http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/pm15.pdf
The information should be useful and point you in the direction of other guidance information should your original query not be answered.
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The product is roof felt and the they are approximately 1 metre in length and 35Kg in weight (each). These are stacked side (ie not laid down) on on a standard 1 x 1.2 UK pallet. Thanks
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So you get about 20 of these rolls to a pallet (ones I have seen in DIY shop are about 20cm dia and 1m high). Is the damage to the rolls on the sides (roll edges) from a pallet stacked on top ?
If so could any waste offcuts of felt be placed on top before the next pallet is put on to act as a sacrificial piece ( or go to your waste bins and have a look at what production excess or packaging that is regularly being disposed of that could be re purposed - two birds one stone as you save on pay paying for waste removal). chris
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If I understand this correctly the rolls of roofing felt are stacked upon their ends and then collapse in transit, this will be due to there being no strength in the final rolled product along that axis. Your solution is to source a core to which the roofing felt can be wrapped around - something akin to the cardboard tube found in rolls of kitchen paper or loo rolls. Either made of recycled cardboard, wood pulp etc that can be formed into the tube length required and doesn't significantly add to the overall weight but then give the rigity to each roll and prevents it collapsing.
Alternatively have you looked at laying them down and packaging them using what is know as pallet roll cradles - good examples using a quick internet search.
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