Plastic tray development prospects

For a long time, the pallets used in the logistics industry in China have been dominated by wood, accounting for 90% of the total domestic pallets. However, with the increase in environmental pressure, the use of wooden pallets has been banned in railway transportation. European, American, and Japanese countries have adopted wooden pallets (including wooden pallets) that are nearly as demanding as fumigation and inspection and quarantine requirements for wooden pallets. The demand has a huge impact. Some experts even assert that in the next 5 to 10 years, the market share of Chinese wooden pallets will drop from the current 90% to less than 50%. On the one hand, the development of the logistics industry has driven the surge in demand for pallets. On the one hand, the “main force” demand for wooden pallets has been declining, indicating that plastic pallets are facing huge business opportunities. Especially the plastic-wood pallets that have just emerged in this century have both the original advantages of plastic pallets and are popular because their prices are only 2/3 of that of pure plastic pallets. The current development momentum is very rapid.

However, while it is certain that the plastic tray industry faces enormous business opportunities, it should also see the unfavorable factors that restrict the healthy development of the Chinese tray industry.

The first is the lack of unified standards for pallets, making it difficult for China to establish a "big logistics" system as soon as possible. At present, there are six sizes of plastic trays in the national standard, and as many as more than 30 types of trays actually circulate, it is difficult to achieve nationwide or regional palletized intermodal transport and storage, and it is difficult to match containers and forklifts, resulting in the transport of goods. Enterprises with large transshipment capacity cannot afford to share pallets and have to withdraw large sums of money for the purchase of pallets. This virtually increases the cost burden of enterprises, and at the same time reduces their enthusiasm for using pallets. Many small and medium-sized enterprises therefore cannot afford or use pallets. Simply do not use the tray.

Followed by high prices of plastic trays, directly affecting its promotion and application. Synthetic resin prices have continued to rise in recent years, pushing up the cost of plastic trays and increasing prices, which has greatly compromised the price/performance advantages of plastic trays. In order to compete for the market, some small companies are pushing down sales on the one hand. On the one hand, large quantities of recycled materials or large proportions of fillers are used in the production process, which has caused many fake and inferior plastic pallets into the market, not only disturbing the order of the plastic tray market, but also making Plastic trays are facing ****, which has a great negative impact on the promotion and application of plastic trays and future development. The well-known domestic plastic pallet companies all complained to reporters about the disorder and profusion of the domestic plastic pallet market. They all hoped to increase the access threshold for plastic pallets companies, and introduced the rigid and uniform technical standards for plastic pallets as soon as possible, and increased the use of counterfeit and inferior products. Investigate efforts to maintain the normal order of the plastic tray market.

Thankfully, the unfavorable factors affecting the rapid development of the Chinese pallet industry, especially the plastic pallet industry, are weakening under the joint efforts of industry experts, logistics companies, and pallet production companies and the strong support of the relevant state departments. eliminate. According to the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, by 2012, the China Logistics and Purchasing Federation Pallet Professional Committee will formulate and revise more than 300 logistics-related standards. This undoubtedly tells us that the biggest issue that restricts the rapid development of the Chinese pallet industry is the tray standard system. Will be established in the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan". Once the pallets standard system is established and improved, the technical obstacles will be removed for the formation of the “big logistics” system. By then, the Chinese pallet industry, especially the plastic pallet industry, will usher in a truly golden era.