Light weight durable food safety EPP pallet suitable for food, medical and electronics industries

Due to its many advantages, EPP pallets can play a role in many different industries, including but not limited to:

Food and Beverage Industry: EPP pallets are waterproof and durable, making them ideal for the transportation and storage of food and beverages, protecting food safety, while also having advantages in cleaning and disinfection.

Healthcare Industry: Medical devices and pharmaceuticals require special transportation and storage conditions. The durability and hygiene of EPP pallets make them an ideal choice for the healthcare industry, ensuring the safety and integrity of medical products.

Electronics Industry: Electronic products are generally fragile and require special attention to shock and anti-static. The impact resistance and customization of EPP pallets make them a good choice for the transportation of electronic products.

Automotive and Aerospace Industry: These industries often need to transport large and heavy parts. EPP pallets can meet these needs due to their lightweight and high-strength characteristics. They can also be customized to accommodate parts of various shapes and sizes.

Retail Industry: EPP pallets are often used to display and store goods in retail environments, such as supermarkets, warehouse stores, etc. Their lightness and easy-to-clean characteristics make cargo management more efficient.

Agriculture and horticulture: EPP pallets can be used to transport and store seeds, plants and agricultural products in the agriculture and horticulture fields. Their waterproof and durable properties ensure the safety and quality of the products.

In summary, the various advantages of EPP pallets make them suitable for the transportation and storage needs of various industries, and have become the preferred logistics solution for many companies.

EPP (Expanded Polypropylene) pallets have many advantages:

Lightweight and high strength: EPP pallets are very light compared to pallets made of other materials (such as wooden pallets or metal pallets). At the same time, they have high strength and can withstand large weights, which makes them more convenient and economical in logistics and transportation.

Durability: EPP materials have excellent durability and impact resistance, are not easy to break or deform, and can maintain stable form and performance even in harsh environmental conditions, so they can be reused many times and have low long-term use costs.

Waterproof and moisture-proof: EPP pallets have excellent waterproof properties, will not absorb water or moisture, and will not cause the pallet to deform or corrode even when used in a humid environment, protecting the safety of the goods.

Temperature stability: EPP materials have high temperature resistance, can maintain stable performance over a wide temperature range, are not easily affected by temperature changes, and are suitable for transportation and storage needs under various environmental conditions.
Customizability: EPP pallets can be customized according to customer needs, including personalized requirements in size, shape, color, etc., to meet the needs of different industries and applications.

Environmentally friendly and sustainable: EPP material is an environmentally friendly material that can be recycled and reused. Through reasonable recycling and reprocessing processes, it can reduce resource waste and environmental pollution, which is in line with the concept of sustainable development.

In summary, EPP pallets are widely used in logistics and cargo storage due to their advantages such as light weight, high strength, durability and waterproofness, temperature stability, and customizability.

Weihai Hanwell New Material Co.,LTD was established in 2020, as a member of Han Well Group with Qingdao Hanwell Hightech Plastic Co.,Ltd. With the 20 years development, now the factories cover an area of 100,000 square meters and the workshop is about 80,000 square meters, 50 production lines, the total investment is more than US dollars 50,000,000.

From the EPP raw material, EPP forming products, molded pulp products, therm forming products, plastic slip sheet, we have realized the industrial chain highly vertically integrated in every these industries. Meantime we have a lot of advanced machines from Germany, that improve the quality, reduce the cost, so we can provide competitive price and ensure the big order delivery on time.

With experience on working with the world-class customers from all over the world in the past years, our teams deal with a lot of important cases, our engineer team can help design per customers’ request. Besides this, our aim is to provide the comprehensive solution and help to achieve the constant development together.

As a responsible manufacturer, we work hard on developing new biodegradable and reused packaging, we always improve technology and reduce the energy consumption to achieve the goal of the carbon neutrality and protect our world. If you have packaging request, welcome to contact us, we will be very glad to help you.

EPP is a polypropylene foam consisting of expanded, mainly closed-cell foam particles. The EPP beads are filled with air and therefore particularly environmentally friendly(light weight). They guarantee a good joint tightness of the moulded parts and provide an excellent insulation and thermal insulation.

A high energy absorption（shock resistance）capacity combined with a very good recovery behaviour are characteristic properties of EPP in addition to the good chemical and temperature resistance. The low water absorption( water proof) due to the closed-cell structure and hydrophobic surface property, the easy cleaning of moulded parts, the good thermal insulation capacity as well as its environmental compatibility (= free of propellants and other chemical blowing agents) round off the property profile of EPP.

For the use as reusable packaging and reusable transport and insulation containers, the excellent material properties of EPP are used in an ideal form.

Processing

EPP is processed on automatic foaming machines which are designed for a steam chamber pressure of at least 5 bar. The foam particles are transported from a pressurized container via injectors into the mould. Since EPP does not contain any blowing agent, it is necessary to compress the foam particles in the mould. Welding of the EPP beads to a molded part is done by using water vapor as heat transfer medium. The demoulding is done by mechanical ejectors and/or compressed air. For dimensional stabilization, the molded parts must be tempered (= dried) at approx. 80°C after demolding.

Application areas

The specific product properties of EPP are innovative and unrivalled and make EPP a multifunctional material with almost unlimited design possibilities for a wide range of applications.

EPP proves itself in areas where strength at low weight, high stiffness or good thermal properties are required, such as

• Automobiles as energy-absorbing foam such as bumpers, side impact protection or for sun visors or neck supports
• As protective and reusable packaging for sensitive products
• Electronic engineering as well as heating, air conditioning and sanitary engineering as a multifunctional part with multiple uses (impact protection, thermal insulation)
• In safety relevant products such as child seats and bicycle helmets
• The toy industry or the design and furniture sector
• For the transport of temperature-sensitive foodstuffs from A to B