Palletizing Solutions

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers are increasingly seeking to design products with a waste-out approach—including reducing transport packaging such as stretch wrap.

Stretch wrap, which is wrapped around pallets of finished product, is a polyethylene plastic that some parts of the world do not recycle. Packaging and continuous improvement engineers at many large CPG brands are seeking an earth-friendly alternative to stretch wrap. 

Reduce excess packaging and help the planet with palletization adhesives. When applied to the top of finished goods packaging, H.B. Fuller adhesives grip corrugated cases, bags and shrink-wrapped bottles into place and prevent pallet loads from shifting during transit—reducing the need to use plastic stretch wrap for pallet stability.

Palletization adhesives

• Allow packaging to easily separate when ready for merchandising.
• Do not burn, tear or blemish packaging.
• Remove easily.
• Reduce the need for slip sheets and stretch wrap to stabilize pallet loads of product.
• Lower cost of in-store or warehouse handling, disposing, sorting or recycling of slip sheets and stretch film.
• Reduce excess product packaging and consumption of plastic stretch wrap.
• Leverage H.B. Fuller patented process for palletizing shrink-wrapped bottles.

Benefits of Palletization Adhesives:

• Ensures product doesn’t slip off pallet and sustain damage that causes refusals, rework or employee injury during shipping, warehousing and merchandising.
• Preserves packaging aesthetic and protects brand integrity.
• Yields manufacturing savings from reduction in slip sheets and stretch film.
• Can result in ROI in one year or less*.
• Improves operational efficiencies for you and the end-customer.
• Reduces your environmental footprint and demonstrates eco-conscious actions desired by end-customers, consumers and shareholders.

*Contact H.B. Fuller for a detailed savings analysis.

Temporary bonding for:

• Shrink wrap for containers, such as shrink-wrapped water bottles, and corrugated containers.
• High graphic and highly coated corrugated boxes to high graphic.
• Uncoated corrugated boxes to uncoated corrugated boxes.
• Paper or plastic bags of varying sizes.

Palletization Process Using H.B. Fuller Adhesives

Apply drop of H.B. Fuller palletization adhesives on top of corrugated boxes or shrink-wrapped bottle caps, or use other adhesive pattern**.

Stack finished goods on top of one another on a pallet after H.B. Fuller palletization adhesive is applied. The adhesive grips to act as a point of friction to stabilize the pallet during shipping and warehousing.

Separate packs of finished goods effortlessly during merchandising without damaging packaging.

**Ask H.B. Fuller for a pattern recommendation.

Beverage Palletization Adhesive

In our patented palletization process, as packaged bottles come down the conveyor belt, the equipment releases a bead of heavy-duty adhesive on top of each shrink-wrapped bottle cap when packages move under the equipment. Packs of products are then stacked on top of one another on a pallet. When the adhesive is applied to the top of packaging, it grips beverages into place and prevents pallet loads from shifting during merchandising and transit, reducing the need to use stretch wrap for stability.

By doing this, you can save on stretch wrap used to stabilize pallet loads, and you and your customers save time on handling stretch wrap. Although the adhesive is durable, it is ultra-removable. Packaging can be easily separated when it's ready to be displayed on store shelves, without any marks on products.

Corrugated Case Palletization Adhesive

As packages come down the conveyor belt, the equipment releases beads of the heavy-duty adhesive on top of each corrugated box as packages move under the equipment. Cases of products are then stacked on top of one another on a pallet. When the adhesive is applied to the top of packaging, the adhesive grips cases into place and prevents pallet loads from shifting during merchandising and transit, reducing the need to use stretch wrap for stability.

By doing this you can save on stretch wrap used to stabilize pallet loads, and you and your customers save time on handling stretch wrap. Although the adhesive is durable, packaging can easily be separated when it’s ready to be displayed on store shelves.