Just a quick heads up to let you know that if you’re in Barcelona this week (May 11th – 15th) you have a great opportunity to see a pallet inverter up close a the HISPACK show.
Premier Pallet Systems will be displaying a machine and talking people through the process on their agents stand C320.
If you visit remember to tell them you heard about it on the www.palletinverter.co.uk blog.
Pallet inverters are fast becoming a major part of many industries. As with all hot trends the number of websites that offer insight and product knowledge about them grows. The pallet inverter is no difference so we thought we’ve listed the main website across the globe in the right-hand side bar.
To indicate the world wide spread of the pallet inverter check out www.palletinverter.com.au for Australia.
It true to say most people would not even know what a pallet inverter is or what it does. Even less so would people realise that the pallet inverter, a machine that only came into existence in it’s present form a little over thirty years ago, has actually grown to become a vital part of the manufacturing and distribution world. In truth it is fair to say the pallet inverter is turning the world upside down.
So what does a pallet inverter do? Well in many environments now there is the requirement for pallets to be removed from the bottom of a stack of goods. Actually as most goods are moved by pallet trucks these days nearly all items over a certain weight require a pallet under them to allow a forklift to push it’s forks beneath the load. These pallet either get broken in use and need replacing or else they are the wrong type for the environment and need swapping. (The chemical industry often uses plastic pallets rather than the more normal wooden pallets.)
This is where the pallet inverter comes in. It allows a load to have a new pallet put on top and then turns the load 180 degree so that the new pallet is at the base and ready to take the weight of the goods it is to carry. The old pallet is then removed and discarded or put to one side for later use on leaving the distribution center.
When you consider that a multi-million dollar industry have built up around this simple need to turn a load over and that many times if a pallet inverter fails production has to stop, it illustrates just how a straight forward and yet robust piece of machinery like a premier pallet inverter really has turned the world upside down.
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Frank L Garsome has been writing for many years. He has a particular interest in pallet inverters.
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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.