SBS Worldwide Launches 'Revolutionary' Freight Solution at London Book Fair
Purchasing costs have risen to reflect the increase in timber rates, especially with the extra burden of fumigation and quality control. To put the environmental impact into numbers, 200 million trees, or 50,000 per day, are felled to produce pallets each year.
Slipsheets also weigh 20 times less than wooden pallets, so shipping weight is reduced. Another factor to consider is waste. Often warehouses and distribution centers pay to have unsuitable or damaged pallets hauled away for destruction—a sad example of waste that impacts the environment and could be prevented by changing to slipsheets.
Walker told publishers at the fair's Supply Chain seminar: "With slipsheets, you have a 100% recyclable and hygienic method of shipping goods, with a highly efficient loading and unloading process that achieves time and motion stats comparable to the palletised product. The space and weight saving can result in a significant financial boost, so not only is this option good for your company's bottom line, it will also be a major contributor to your green policy."
- People:
- SBS
- Steve Walker
- Places:
- London