Wood chip compressed pallets play a vital role within the logistics industry, serving as essential tools for loading, unloading, storage, and transportation. These pallets, created by compressing wood shavings and plant straw, offer a smooth surface that accommodates the transportation of various goods.

A diverse range of materials is used to source these pallets, iding small-diameter wood, bamboo, and recycled waste materials such as furniture, wood-based panels, and discarded wooden pallets. This approach maximizes the utilization of limited wood resources.

Unlike conventional wooden pallets, wood shavings molded wood pallets are not susceptible to issues such as epidemic prevention and quarantine due to their manufacturing process involving high temperatures and pressure. They also overcome drawbacks associated with traditional pallets, such as knots, cracks, and deformation. In terms of capacity, a standard 40-foot-high container (12.032 m×2.352 m×2.69 m) can accommodate approximately 1650 compressed wooden pallets compared to around 450 ordinary wooden pallets. Moreover, stacking wood shavings molded wooden pallets requires only one-third of the storage space needed for conventional wooden pallets.

The Development of Wood Chip Molded Wooden Pallets

The development of wood chip molded wooden pallets originated from the comprehensive utilization of wood in countries like Germany and the United States. Extensive research and development were conducted in these nations to create molded wood pallets using small-diameter wood or wood processing residues.

In 1971, the German company Werzalit invented the patented technology (US5078938) for manufacturing particleboard by molding wood shavings. This technique involved adding wood shavings mixed with thermosetting resin to a metal mold and subjecting them to hot pressing. Based on this patented technology, the concept of shaving molded wooden pallets emerged. Subsequently, in 1979, Litco International Corporation of the United States became the world’s first manufacturer of shaving molded wooden pallets utilizing this patented technology.

The Compressed Wood Pallet Industry in China

Although the production lines for foreign shaving molded wood pallets are relatively mature and highly automated, the equipment used for pallet molding comes with a high price tag, resulting in significant initial costs. In contrast, China’s domestic compressed wooden pallet industry started relatively later but has witnessed rapid growth by leveraging the accumulation of foreign production experiences and technology in this field.

Today, various brands of compressed wooden pallet processing equipment are widely employed in both domestic and international wooden pallet factories. PalletMach factory’s commercial wooden pallet presses, renowned for their advantages such as competitive pricing, high quality, ease of operation, long service life, and low failure rates, have gained popularity in the domestic and foreign markets. Presently, PalletMach’s compressed wood shavings pallet machines have been exported to over 40 countries and regions, including Spain, Romania, Greece, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Brazil, the United States, Mexico, Tunisia, and South Africa.