[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":316},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fnestable\u002Ffootprints\u002F43x43":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":187,"sources":194,"related":204,"plate":243,"form":255,"scene":256,"path":257,"crumb":53,"ruler":258,"answer":259,"title":260,"h1":260,"description":259,"type":261,"schema":262,"reviewed":264,"crumbs":265,"jsonld":273},3,[6,20,29,40,67,74,154,162,169],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"What rides on a 43 x 43 in pallet",[9,15,18],{"t":10,"items":11},"ul",[12,13,14],"Bulk bags, sometimes sold as Super Sacks","Food additives, feed and pharmaceuticals","Asian-standard shipments",{"t":16,"text":17},"p","A 43 x 43 in pallet, 1100 x 1100 mm, is the Asian standard and a common size for bulk bags. Food additives, animal feed and pharmaceutical ingredients all ship in bags that are filled to a square footprint.",{"t":16,"text":19},"The pallet is nearly square, so a bulk bag sits on it without overhang, and a stack of bags is stable in either axis.",{"h2":21,"blocks":22},"Shape and size",[23],{"t":10,"items":24},[25,26,27,28],"Perimeter: 172.0 in (4,368 mm).","Diagonal corner to corner: 60.8 in (1,545 mm), which is the room a pallet needs to turn in an aisle.","Area: 1.192 square metres, 12.84 square feet.","Aspect: the long side is 1.000 times the short side, so the deck is square.",{"h2":30,"blocks":31},"In practice",[32,34,36,38],{"t":16,"text":33},"The 43 in square is built around a bag. A bulk bag filled to a square footprint sits on a square pallet with its corners inside the deck, so there is nothing hanging over to snag on a fork or tear on a rack. That is a small thing until a bag tears, which is why the deck and the entry matter more here than in cartons.",{"t":16,"text":35},"It is also the size most exposed to substitution. A buyer who has used 48 x 40 in for years may be tempted to put a bulk bag on it; the bag then overhangs one side and sits on the open slots of the other. Match the pallet to the bag, not the bag to the pallet you have.",{"t":16,"text":37},"A practical test is to fill one bag, set it on a sample pallet, and push it with a forklift across the dock. If the bag slides, bulges over the edge or settles into the slots, the pallet and the bag are not a match, whatever the sheet says about rating.",{"t":16,"text":39},"Bulk bags are filled by weight, so a bag of a dense powder is small and heavy while a bag of a light one is tall and soft. The pallet rating suits the first, and the pallet deck and edge condition suit the second.",{"h2":41,"blocks":42},"Against its nearest footprints",[43,65],{"t":44,"head":45,"rows":51,"caption":64},"table",[46,47,48,49,50],"Footprint","Millimetres","Area, sq in","Area, sq ft","Against 48 x 40",[52,58],[53,54,55,56,57],"43 x 43 in","1092 x 1092","1,849","12.84","96.3 percent",[59,60,61,62,63],"1200 x 1000 mm","1199 x 1001","1,860","12.91","96.9 percent","Inches converted at 25.4 mm. Area is length times width, ignoring corner cuts.",{"t":16,"text":66},"The table orders the closest four by area. A 43 x 43 in pallet is 1,849 sq in; the nearest listed footprint differs by 11 sq in. Footprint is the choice the container makes for you, and a small difference in area is a large difference to a rack beam or a drum.",{"h2":68,"blocks":69},"Counting the empty trailer",[70,72],{"t":16,"text":71},"Few makers print per-stack or per-trailer figures for a 43 x 43 in nestable, so this site does not invent them. Ask for the two numbers, enter them in the [calculator](\u002Fnest-calculator) under another footprint, and the trailers follow.",{"t":16,"text":73},"As an illustration of the arithmetic only: if a maker printed 1,500 per trailer, 3,000 returning pallets would need 2 trailers, 5,000 would need 4, and 10,310 would need 7. 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