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As a retailer or distributor, you’ve likely dealt with your fair share of pallet problems. Damaged products, safety hazards, and wasted storage space—all major headaches that cost you time, money, and maybe even retail relationships. Your point of purchase displays should help boost sales instead of hurting your profits and damaging trust with warehouse partners. That’s why choosing the right type of pallet matters.
Pressed wood pallets offer proven solutions to these common issues and more. If you’re wondering exactly how pressed wood pallets stack up against the competition for point of purchase displays, read on to discover five major benefits.
1. Safety: Are Weak Pallets Putting Warehouse Workers at Risk?
Safety is paramount in your store or warehouse – but many traditional pallets come with nails, sharp edges, and splinters. Workers can get hurt handling these pallets, sometimes resulting in costly comp claims. Products get damaged easily, too — frustrating retailers and damaging your brand’s reputation. Throughout transit and on the shop floor, rough stringer pallets are likely to scratch or damage retail flooring, adding to unnecessary repair costs.
Litco’s Inca Engineered Molded Wood® pallets can effectively solve these safety problems. They’re smooth, with no nails or splinters. Workers can handle them safely and efficiently, without injuries. They naturally protect your point of purchase displays from damage and keep your floors scratch-free throughout all parts of the distribution chain.
Learn more about their safety benefits here.
2. Durability: Can Your Pallets Handle the Stress?
You’ve probably seen pallets collapse under heavy displays or break during shipping. In that case, we don’t need to tell you about the costly product damage and wasted resources that result.
The good news is that pressed wood pallets are tougher than the competition. Litco’s Inca Engineered Molded® pressed wood pallets were specially designed to withstand stress. Our pallets resist bending and flexing up to 2,500 lbs for dynamic loads, and 7,500 lbs for static loads.
In fact, one Virginia Tech study showed definitively how these pallets outlast traditional recycled pallets (see the full results here). The study demonstrated that pressed wood pallets held up considerably better, lasting 5–7 times longer in stress tests before breaking. By comparison, recycled pallets used in testing broke after just 1–2 impacts.
The rub? More durable pallets equals fewer damaged displays and minimized financial waste.
3. Distribution Channel Acceptance: Are Your Customers Satisfied?
When you introduce new pallets into your supply chain, you might worry about the way your retail and distribution partners will react. If your pallets cause problems, complaints will quickly follow. If these problems persist, you could end up losing entire accounts.
Pressed wood pallets from Litco have already proven their value on a national scale. Consider Wonderful Nut, America’s leading pistachio brand. They initially tested Litco’s pressed wood pallets in a small pilot program. Their end users loved them so much that they immediately rolled our pallets out across their entire East Coast distribution chain — and they’ve remained a trusted partner since.
It took almost no time for these pallets to win acceptance from Wonderful Nut’s warehouse workers, distributors, and retailers alike. At every stage, Wonderful Nut noticed fewer issues, safer handling, and cleaner displays.
4. Space Efficiency: Are Traditional Pallets Wasting Your Storage Space?
Storage and shipping space cost money — space is a precious commodity. Traditional pallets consume that commodity like there’s no tomorrow: you can only stack them a few units high before they become unstable.
In contrast, pressed wood pallets from Litco have a smart, nestable design. These pallets fit snugly into each other, saving valuable cubic footage. You can store 50 pressed wood pallets in a stack just 8 feet high. In truckload terms, that translates to 4,200 nestable pressed wood pallets compared to only 1,000 traditional pallet models.
This space-saving solution can reduce your storage costs, cut shipping expenses, and improve warehouse efficiency.
Find out more about those space-saving advantages here.
5. End-User and Retailer Benefits: Are Your Pallets Hurting or Helping Your Reputation?
Unsurprisingly, retailers care about undamaged products and scratch-free floors. In recent years, they have prioritized sustainability concerns too. Traditional pallets score poorly on all three fronts, especially when made from virgin materials. Splinters, nails, and unstable construction cause damaged displays and unhappy customers. Unsustainable sourcing makes for poor ESG outcomes.
Pressed wood pallets, on the other hand, provide clear advantages for your end users, retailers and environmental credentials:
- Reduced Damage: No splinters or nails mean minimal product damage and cleaner, safer floors.
- Cost-effectiveness: Fewer damaged goods and safer working conditions convert to lower long-term costs.
- Sustainability: Litco’s Engineered Molded Wood® pallets are both Cradle to Cradle® and USDA BioPreferred® certified. They are responsibly produced, aiding your ESG goals and helping you secure contracts that come with sustainability requirements (see more here).
Over the years, we have heard how retailers value the positive impact these pallets have had on their stores, customers and industry reputation.
Learn more about Litco’s Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Engineered Molded Wood® certification.
Pressed Wood Pallets: The Reliable Choice for Point of Purchase Displays
Choosing the right pallets affects everything from your bottom line, to worker safety, to product appearance in-store. Pressed wood pallets from Litco are safe, strong, and accepted across distribution channels, not to mention space-efficient and beneficial to your end users. They directly address common retail and distribution challenges, making them the smart choice for your point of purchase displays.
Keen to know whether pressed wood pallets are the right solution for your needs? Find out easily by filling out our 3-minute questionnaire:
👉 Are Litco’s Inca Engineered Molded® pressed wood pallets right for your business?
At Litco, we are committed to understanding your challenges. That’s why we offer simple, reliable and cost-effective solutions personalized to your situation. Contact a specialist to discuss how we can help with all of your transit protection and load securement needs.
