The rise of the Plastic Pallet

摘要

While plastic pallets still represent a small slice of the total pallet mar-ket-with wood comprising more than 90% of market share-they've been steadily growing in use over the last lew yeans. "The Material Handling Industry has slated that the plastic pallet market has doubled in size ever the last 10 years," says Margot Beesley, director of marketing communications for Buckhorn . "One reason is the trend toward increasing sustainahilitv throughout the supply chain, as we've seen with Wai-Marts recent Sustainable Product Initiative.