continues Simon. “When you add in freight costs both ways, that could mean additional costs of over £1,000 because a pallet has shifted in transit and is leaning, or has come away from the pallet when it arrives”

Our consultations take a holistic view of pallet wrapping operations with the aim of eliminating returns, optimising load stability and product protection, whilst increasing efficiency and reducing cost and waste. In fact, the manufacturer facing £1,000 in penalties for rejected loads is one of our great successes – since switching to our Intelligent Load Stability system, they have not had a single return. And that kind of success is echoed across our customers – our consultants nearly always find a way to save costs and increase performance.

“One of our customers, a bedding manufacturer, was seeing a high return rate on their 195,000 shipments each year, but it was down to poor quality film and poor machine calibration …the film was being loaded wrongly, it was poor quality and often ripped, then operators were using more film to double wrap and they were still seeing loads rejected.”

“Then after a Hazel4D consultation we installed a system that resulted in a £66,000 saving on wrap each year. We replaced three damaged machines and swapped out their old wrap for Extremus nano-tech film which can achieve up to 300% stretch. So even on pallet-loads of bouncy pillows we achieved great load rigidity and stability! We trained their operators and engineers to make best use of the system and to keep it optimised, and then we saved them both the cost and hassle of returns, and the cost of using twice the wrap needed. That will have led to a drop in their PRNs, too. When you get it right, it can keep paying back.”