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It names the footprint the container usually decides, the rating that governs, the style that fits, and the questions to put to a maker. Where a maker prints a figure for a named model we use it, with its source; where nobody prints one, the page says so.",{"t":53,"text":56},"Industries overlap. A beverage plant is a food buyer, a closed-loop buyer and often a warehouse. Read the pages that match each part of your use and take the lowest rating of them.",{"h2":58,"blocks":59},"Trailers for your volume",[60,62],{"t":53,"text":61},"Suppose 2,340 empty pallets come back in a month. At the maker figures on file that is 2 trailers of Rehrig Pacific heavy-duty nestables (1,200 each), 1 of PHS Plastic's EXP 100 (2,340 each) or 5 of a rackable (540 each). 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An example of arithmetic, not a quote.",{"h2":100,"blocks":101},"Overlaps between industries",[102,104],{"t":53,"text":103},"A food plant that sells to a grocery chain is a food buyer, a closed-loop buyer if the pallets return, and a warehouse buyer if they sit on racks. Read each page that applies and take the lowest rating of the jobs; the pallet has to do all of them.",{"t":53,"text":105},"The reverse also happens. A chemical store and a pharma plant may both be looking at the same square footprint for different reasons, and the same model may suit both. What changes is the paperwork: a fire listing for the first, a document trail for the second.",{"h2":107,"blocks":108},"Reading across industries",[109],{"t":53,"text":110},"The eight industries here differ less in the pallets they use than in the question each asks first. Food and beverage asks about cleaning, pharmaceutical about paperwork, automotive about the container, chemical about spills, export about weight, racking about beams, closed loops about returns and retail about handling by hand.",{"h2":112,"blocks":113},"Choosing an industry page",[114],{"t":53,"text":115},"If your business spans two of these industries, read both pages, because the first question of each may be different. A food packer with an export business needs the cleaning questions from one page and the weight questions from the other.",{"h2":117,"blocks":118},"Words on this page",[119],{"t":120,"rows":121},"dl",[122,125,128,131,134,137,140,143],[123,124],"Footprint","The length and width of a pallet deck. 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