Plastic pallet with 3 skates

Operating professional palletized goods with pallets that enter rack shelving without risk of lateral fall, withstand pressure washing without rotting, and clear export customs without a phytosanitary certificate requires a structural plastic pallet with three parallel runners calibrated for beam support. This 3-runner plastic pallet—also called a runner pallet, parallel-runner platform, or plastic stringer pallet—is manufactured by Cargobo from monoblock injected polypropylene (PP), in American (120×100 cm) and European (120×80 cm) formats, designed for professional logistics operations, warehouses with selective racks, inter-island export, and environments with hygiene requirements.

Key benefits

• Three parallel runners for racks: the continuous stringer geometry distributes weight over the longitudinal beams of the rack, a condition that block pallets do not guarantee and which is critical for high-bay storage without risk of lateral fall.
• Monoblock polypropylene (PP) without joints: single-piece injection eliminates weak points that wooden pallets present at nails and edges, producing a structure that withstands forklift impacts without fragmentation.
• Non-porous surface hygiene: inert plastic does not absorb moisture, does not generate mold or fungi, and allows washing with pressurized water, steam, or industrial disinfectant, a key condition for the food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.
• Exempt from ISPM-15 standard for export: being non-wood, it does not require fumigation, heat treatment, or a phytosanitary certificate for international transit, which eliminates customs delays and treatment costs.
• Constant tare weight for freight: plastic does not absorb ambient moisture, which keeps the tare stable between batches and allows for precise calculation of air freight where weight is a critical cost factor.

Typical applications and uses

• Storage on selective and push-back rack shelving with longitudinal beam support.
• Food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries with HACCP/GMP standards that require a washable surface.
• Export to the USA, Europe, and markets that apply ISPM-15 standards against wood pests.
• Refrigerated chambers and cold rooms where wood swells with condensation and becomes unsanitary.

Quality and durability

An economical 3-runner pallet fails in two ways: the runner geometry is irregular or of variable thickness (which causes instability in the rack and increases the risk of load falling) and the polypropylene (PP) is low-quality recycled material (which becomes brittle after the first cold room cycle). Cargobo works with virgin polypropylene (PP) and controlled monoblock injection, which differentiates a professional operational platform from a generic pallet that breaks at the first encounter with an export truck.