Palletizing Adhesives

Fast moving consumer goods companies continue to optimize their production lines to keep up with consumer demand. In addition to activities related to efficiency, making processes and packaging more sustainable is a prominent topic. An area seeing increased activity is reduction of packaging materials designed for transport to retailers and distribution centers. In many cases these pallets of products are secured with stretch film, which is a polyethylene plastic that is not recyclable in some countries. Replacing or reducing the amount of stretch film is critical in eliminating excess packaging waste.

Watch the video to see how our palletizing adhesives work demonstrated by hot melt application as exemplary technology – and learn how to increase safety, efficiency, and sustainability.

Reducing Packaging Waste

Henkel’s innovative palletizing adhesive solutions enable the reduction or complete elimination of plastic-based stretch film. Utilizing hot melt and pressure sensitive adhesive technologies, our palletizing solutions increase the efficiency and sustainability along the value chain. The benefits of palletizing adhesives are:

• Enabling easy separation of products during merchandising
• Reducing the need for slip sheets to stabilize palletized products
• Decreasing the amount of stretch film and packaging for shipping needed to securely deliver products
• Lowering the labor needed for in-store and warehouse handling, disposing, sorting, and recycling of packaging materials
• Increasing automation of adhesive application as part of the end-of-line packaging process

Contact our technical service teams via the contact form to learn more about our palletizing adhesive options. Request a free on-site audit to understand how palletizing could be implemented including cost comparisons of all palletizing methods.

Safe and Efficient Packaging Solutions With Palletizing

To keep up with increasing consumer demand, containers and packages must be transported efficiently. Safety aspects are as essential as the failure rate caused by damage. Safe, sustainable, and efficient solutions are vital for the logistics of consumer goods companies. Specially designed adhesives can be integrated into the production process. Applying a hot melt adhesive in spiral or bead form on the top of the packaging enables the cases to be stacked and remain stable during stacking and transportation.

Henkel’s TECHNOMELT^® palletizing solutions offer an alternative to securing transport finished goods and reduce packaging waste. Additionally,  our palletizing adhesives reduce the amount of plastic stretch film. Instead of wrapping pallets with stretch film to assure safe transport, Henkel’s range of hot melt adhesives effectively secure packages to the pallet, improving safety, and lowering overall costs.

Sustainable Palletizing, Less Packaging Waste, and Costs

Pallet stabilization using hot melt adhesives maximizes resources and reduces packaging costs. Different from the conventional pallet stacking methods, where intermediate cardboard layers and external plastic stretch film is used to secure the consumer goods cases during transportation. Securing products with palletizing glue assures products do not slip during transportation causing damage and could lead to product refusals, rework or even injury. In many cases, palletizing adhesives can help improve operation efficiencies and preserve the packaging aesthetics. Gain the value from switching to palletizing adhesives from:

• Reduced or eliminated pallet stretch film
• Decreased need for intermediate layer materials
• Increased pallet stability