The Mobile Pallet Stability Test Lab was launched by Lindum Packaging in a virtual event to 100 food industry, packaging and logistics professionals.

It promises to cut costs, improve pallet stability, reduce product damage in transit and save thousands of tonnes of stretch wrap every year.

Developed by Lindum Packaging, the test lab will provide on-site real-time pallet stability testing. Until now companies have had to conduct inconclusive transit trials, often at test facilities in Europe, at a cost of up to €8,000 per test. 

Lindum, the UK’s leading expert on pallet wrapping and stability, says the mobile test lab will revolutionise the way businesses reduce costs, plastic and CO2 through pallet wrap optimisation whilst alleviating the risks associated with changes to packaging.

Bernard Sellars, managing director of Lindum Packaging said: “This is a major innovation for the UK’s logistics and warehouse industry. 

“Many businesses are currently wasting thousands of pounds on stretch film because they are over-wrapping pallets. Companies are reluctant to change because until now there has been no quick and consistent way to test the effectiveness of what they are doing.

“Our new unit changes all that by providing a cost-effective testing method that will improve stability, reduce product damage in transit and save thousands of tonnes of stretch wrap being used.”

The Grimsby-based company calculated that UK businesses use 150,000 tonnes is stretch wrap a year.

Stability testing combined with use of correctly specified wrap could reduce this by 45,000 tonnes per year, saving money reducing plastic waste and cutting CO2.

Mr Sellars added: “With the introduction of the plastics tax in less than a year, the mobile test lab will allow companies to cut the amount of plastic stretch wrap they use, reducing their liability for the tax and improving their environmental performance.

“At the moment many businesses are using poor quality wrap, which is incorrectly applied and overwrapped in the hope that this will provide adequate protection and stability. 

“They are surprised that thinner wrap applied correctly gives better protection and stability, whilst reducing costs and plastic.”

He added: “At Lindum, we have been saving our customers money, reducing their plastic packaging and improving their pallet stability for many years. With our new lab we can go even further.”

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