
The challenges of palletising bags and how anti-slip paper solves them
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Date
January 30, 2025
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Subject
The challenges of palletising bags
Shipping bags on pallets may seem straightforward, but ensuring their stability during transportation is a complex challenge. If you are working with and shipping bags on pallets you have probably experienced misaligned stacks, shifting loads or collapsed pallets. It’s a common problem that can result in product damage, increased costs and even safety hazards. And nobody wants that, right? Fortunately, innovative solutions like anti-slip paper can address these issues, making palletising bags both secure and efficient. In this post we discuss the challenges of transporting bags on pallets, present the solution, and show how others have dealt with the challenge, so that you can hopefully avoid issues in the future.
The challenge of palletising bags
Bags, by their nature, are not the easiest items to stack. Their flexible material, irregular shapes and tendency to shift under pressure make achieving pallet stability difficult. They are also typically more slippery compared to products packaged in square boxes. This is an aggravating challenge no matter what product you have inside – from dog food to wood pellets.
When traditional methods, such as stretch wrap or adhesives, fail to provide the necessary support, you can risk a pallet collapse during transit – both during longer forms of transportation, from one city or country to another, and also during production onsite, transporting the bags on pallets from one side of the building to another.
This is where anti-slip paper comes into play. Designed to enhance friction between layers of bags, the material provides a reliable grip that significantly improves pallet stability, even for the most challenging products.
Just watch the video below, which shows the anti-slip-paper in action on pallets with bags.
How anti-slip paper makes a difference
There is no doubt that there is a remarkable difference between palletising with and without anti-slip paper. Without it, bags slide and become destabilised, risking damage. With anti-slip paper, the enhanced friction keeps the layers firmly in place, ensuring a stable pallet that can withstand the demands of transportation. The anti-slip paper minimises product movement, saving you from costly mishaps.
To really illustrate the impact of anti-slip paper, let’s explore its benefits through a practical demonstration and real-world case studies. Here, we’ll take a look at pet food manufacturers, who often use bags – and lots of them – as packaging and during transportation.
Safe transportation of dog food bags
One of our customers in the pet food industry, Doggy AB, faced challenges with transporting large, heavy bags of dog food. Their pallets frequently collapsed, leading to damaged goods and delays. After implementing anti-slip paper, they saw an immediate improvement in pallet stability. This solution not only reduced product loss but also streamlined their shipping processes.
Preben Nielsen from Palcut highlights it: “We notice a clear impact from the increasing number of roundabouts on the roads. They cause increased damage to goods”.
Vital Petfood gets smooth bags to stand up better
Another manufacturer of pet food, Vital Petfood, struggled with smooth and slippery bags that were attractive, with nice coloured print, so the product could be displayed at its best in shops. But the smooth surfaces made the bags stacked on pallets up to a height of 2.2 meters so slippery that they risked sliding apart, creating an unstable pallet.
The solution was, of course, the anti-slip paper. Jan Stig from Vital Petfood explains the difference with the anti-slip-paper: “The anti-slip interlayer sheet ensures that the bags are 100 percent stable, and at the same time the fine colour print on the bags is protected”.
So why should you choose anti-slip paper?
Anti-slip paper is not just a tool for stability – it’s a cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution. Its recyclable material aligns with sustainability goals, while its high friction properties reduce the need for excess stretch wrap or adhesives. If you are dealing with transporting bags containing pet food, agricultural products, building materials or something similar, anti-slip paper is a game changer that enhances both performance and sustainability.
This shows us that palletising bags doesn’t have to be an uphill battle. With the right tools and strategies, you can overcome the challenges of achieving pallet stability. Anti-slip paper has proven its value again and again (for example, as shown in the two case studies), offering a reliable and efficient solution to keep your products safe during transportation.
Do you want to know even more? Explore our range of anti-slip solutions at Palcut and see how they can transform your palletising process.
Let’s secure your next shipment – one layer at a time.