When ordering pallets there are many items that must be considered. Understanding the terms will assist with providing you with the exact pallet and requirements needs for shipping and moving of your products. This list will provide many terms to assist with your ordering process.
Terms | Definition |
Annular Nail | Pallet nail with annular (circular ring) threads rolled onto the shank |
Banding notch | Bottom Inner Lead Board |
Bin | Four-sided superstructure to be mounted on a pallet base, with or without a cover |
Block | Rectangular, square or cylindrical deck spacer |
Block Pallet | Pallet with blocks between the pallet decks or beneath the top deck |
Bottom Deck | Deckboards Assembly comprising of the lower, load bearing surface of the pallet |
Buttered Deckboard | Inner deckboard placed tightly against an adjacent lead deckboard during pallet assembly |
Captive Pallet | Not intended for exchange or trade. Use within a single facility. |
Chamfer | Cut made in wood at a 45° angle |
Chamfered deckboards | Deckboards with edges of one or two beveled faces, either along the full length of board or between the stringers blocks, allowing entry of pallet jack wheels |
Closed distribution system | Shipping system restrictive of movement goods between specific plants and facilities |
Collar | Wooden container that transforming a pallet into a box |
Cost-per-trip | Cost for one way single trip for pallet |
Custom Pallet | A Pallet built to specific design requirements |
Deck Matt | Forming deck portion of pallet. Consists of assembly of deckboards and stringerboards. |
Deckboard | Component of a pallet deck, perpendicular to the stringer or board |
Deckboard spacing | Distant between deckboards that are adjacent to the deckboard |
Deckboard span | Distant between supports of deckboard |
Deflection | A pallets bending or deformation in a pallet. |
Double-face pallet | Top and bottom decks pallet. |
Double-wing pallet | Top and bottom decks extending passed the edges of the stinger or boards. |
Drive screw nail | Threaded pallet nail that continuously spirals. |
Fastener | Joining pallet components nails, staples, bolts etc. |
Flush pallet | Deckboards that is flush with stinger or boards. |
Fork entry | Deck opening between the top deck or underneath stinger board. |
Free span | Space between supports in the warehouse rack. |
Hand (wheel) jack opening | Space on bottom deck to allow pallet jack wheels to bear on the floor |
Handling | Pick up, movement, and setting down of loaded or empty pallet. |
Hardened-steel nail | Nail that is heat-treated and tempered steele. |
Hardwood | Hardwoods provide reuse. The can be returned to the pallet company or resold as used pallets |
Heat Treatment | Pallets are ISPM 15 treated for international treatment |
Helical nail | Threaded pallet nail that continuously spirals. |
Inner deckboard | Deckboard located between the end deckboards |
International Standards For Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) | Directly addresses the need to treat wood materials of a thickness greater than 6mm, used to ship products between countries |
Joint | Location where connection and intersection of components. They are called center joint, end joint, and corner joint. |
Lead boards | |
Length | The stinger/stingerboard length |
Life to first repair | |
Line load | Weight unit load concentrates along the narrow area across the full length or width of the pallet |
Load bearing surface | Pallet area that actually comes in contact with and supports the product. |
Non-reversible pallet | Top and bottom deckboards are different. |
Notch | Area that is cutout in the lower portion where the fork lift enters the pallet. |
Notched stringer | Stinger and two notches spaced for the forklift to enter pallet. |
Overhang | Distance deck extends from outer edge of the stringer or board, wing, lip, or distance the unit load extends beyond the deck. |
Pallet | Portable, horizontal, rigid platform set as a base for assembling, storing, stacking, handling and transporting products as a unit load. |
Pallet Design System (PDS) | Computer-aided design program determining the safe load capacity, performance, life and economy of wood pallets. |
Pallet jack | Propelled by hand wheeled platform, lifting device equipped for moving palletized loads |
Pallet life | The time period that a pallet is usable for lifting and moving. |
Pallet-dimensions | 48″ x 40″ pallet that has a 48″ stringer or stringerboard and 40″ deckboards |
Panel deck pallet | Composite or structural panel top deck of constructed pallet. |
Partial four-way stringer pallet | Notched stinger pallets. |
Post pallet | Fitted pallet with posts or blocks between the deck or underneath top deck. |
Racked across deckboards | Deflection of pallet where rack frame supports only at the ends of the deckboards |
Racked across stringers | Deflection of pallet where rack frame supports only at the ends of the stringers or boards |
Recycled Pallets | A pallet that is reused, or salvaged, repaired. |
Rental pallet | Pallet that is owned by a third party not the actual owner of the pallet. |
Repair | Repair pallet for use again. |
Returnable/reusable pallet | Pallet used for more than one use. |
Reversible pallet | The top and the bottom of pallet are identical. |
Shipping pallet | This pallet is used for one shipment. |
Shook | Pallet parts cut to size that can be assembled into a pallet. |
Shook grade | Quality of pallet parts relating to the performance of the pallet based on size and defects. |
Single-wing pallet | Pallet with the top deckboards extending beyond the edges of the stringers or boards and bottom deckboards flush. |
Skid | No bottom deck on pallet. |
Slave pallet | Pallet, platform or single, thick panel used as a support base for a palletized load in rack-storage facilities or production systems |
Soft nail | Pallet nail with an angle equal to or greater than 47 degrees |
Softwood | One-time use and often trashed after the first trip. Made from coniferous or needle-bearing trees |
Solid deck pallet | No spacing between deckboards |
Span | Distant between stinger or block. |
Stevedore pallet | Seaport shipping pallet, heavy duty, or double wing construction. |
Stiff-stock steel nail | Nail made of medium-high carbon steel no heat treatment angle between 29 and 46 degrees |
Strap slot | Recess or cutout on the upper edge of the stringer. Allow tie-down of a unit load to the pallet deck with strapping/banding. |
Stringer | Continuous, longitudinal, solid or notched beam-component of the pallet used to support deck components. Outside or center. stringer |
Stringer board | Block pallets, continuous, solid board member extending for the full length of the pallet perpendicular to deckboard members and placed between deckboards and blocks |
Take-it-or-leave-it pallet | Pallet fitted with fixed cleats on the top deckboards to permit fork truck tines to pass beneath the unit load and remove it from the pallet |
Top cap | Panel placed on top of a unit load to allow for tight strapping not damaging the product. |
Top-deck of the pallet | Deckboard assembly with an upper load carrying surface pallet |
Trip | Handling of a pallet. |
Two-way entry pallet | Unnotched solid stingers allowing only one end entry from the ends |
Unit load | Product or assembled goods on a pallet for moving, storage, and stacking. |
Warehouse pallet | Multiple trip pallets for warehouse use. |
Wing | Deckboard end overhang from outside edge of stringer or board |
AMC Consolidated provides onsite heat-treating pallets for international shipment, Peco pallets, and pallet production. We have the expertise to meet your product shipping needs and expertise of pallet production. We can assist with your questions regarding your pallet order. Contact us today.
Contact: Ed Soto
Business: AMC Consolidated
Phone Number: 1-602-233-9800
Email: sales@amcconsolidated.com
Web Site: http://www.amcconsolidated.com
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