Pallet Inverters

First and foremost we believe you cannot have safety without quality and pallet inverter reputations are built on building safe systems. This starts with each component part that are bought in and of course is particularly critical with electrical and security items. For example, the Reer photobeam system that have been used by the likes of Premier Pallet Systems for a number of years now has proved hugely dependable. Whenever you fit sub-standard components to equipment, safety is compromised.

A pallet inverter is not a machine you would expect to change as often as you change cars, or forklift trucks for that matter. The lifespan of a well-built machine should be 10 years in even the busiest location. Indeed, the average lifespan of the machine we build here is proving a good deal longer. Some manufacturers made  a conscious decision a long time ago not to build pallet transfer systems that need replacement every 4 or 5 years as they had no wish to sell shed loads of spare parts. The best policy in the long term interests of any company is to sell equipment built to last. Once they get into the enviable position of having many hundreds of machines out in the field and an equal number of very satisfied customers they can call on them for reference or recommendation to new clients.

One fear about building quality is always that the market may be saturate with machines which never wore out or needed replacing. However, the market has continued to grow throughout the world and existing customers regularly return to us for second and third machines.

Much pallet inverter business nowadays is conducted through agents abroad. The many companies who offer pallet inverters have come to rely on a dependable high quality machine. The last thing these distributors need is equipment in the field that results in continual breakdowns and irate phone calls from customers.

Some pallet inverter agents are very small companies, even one man operations. It is a great advantage to all concerned that such is the reliability of the inverters they do not need an extensive service back up to support them. It also means that  prices can be kept highly competitive as there is not the need to allow any appreciable budget for warranty repairs.

Broadly speaking you could say that any company who handles their product on pallets has a potential need for a Pallet Inverter.

Generally, customers can be broken down into 4 categories, one of these being to recover broken pallets or damaged goods at the bottom of a stack. It is fair to say that almost every inverter ever sold has at some time been used to give quick access to the bottom of the stack; many of them for only that purpose. Good housekeeping and better presentation to customers are two good reasons to have a pallet transfer device available at short notice when product starts to spill.

The biggest users of inverters are undoubtedly food and pharmaceutical companies who need to switch incoming goods from wooden to hygienic pallets for use in production areas. This principally applies to factories who manufacture products with a wide range of ingredients e.g. biscuits, cakes, snack foods, ready meals, health foods etc. Often the packaging material as well as the foodstuffs have to be transferred.

Hygiene is becoming increasingly critical and it is now out of the question for a wood pallet which could harbour any amount of chemicals or contamination from previous uses, to be allowed into a clean zone.

Any company that runs a high-bay warehouse or coldstore will be aware of the dangers of racking a broken or unstable pallet. Therefore, inverters are also used to guard against sub-standard pallets entering the system where they can cause delays or accidents.

The same hygiene and safety-conscious companies who employ an inverter on the incoming side of their operation may also use one for outgoing goods too.

Pharmaceutical products in particular are often palletised on plastic or other top quality skids in the factory but are switched to cheaper expendable pallets for distribution. A pallet transfer device gives the option to put goods on to the most suitable type of unit for distribution immediately prior to shipping. A producer may not know the destination of the goods at time of production, but now has the flexibility to transfer them to the most suitable pallet for the market concerned.

The fourth category of pallet inverter user is the company who simply needs to turn something through 180 degrees. There are many examples:

* Printers who need to print on both sides of the sheet of paper.
* Producers of laminated product such as MDF board.
* Cheese producers during the maturation process.
* Vineyards will allow the cork to expand in the neck of the bottles then turn them through 180 degrees for long term storage.
* Concrete sections can be inverted to remove the steel mould.
* Bananas are turned after ripening for better presentation in the supermarket.

Just when we think we have heard every reason for 180 degree inversion, our customers will come up with one more.