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Replacing wood pallets and slip sheets with plastic pallets is the answer to many tough situations in the meat, poultry and frozen food industries. But what is the most effective way of getting the product on those plastic pallets?

Let us introduce you to the Gaylord Transfer System. This system allows companies to transfer incoming product to plastic pallets. And equally important allows slaughterhouses to transfer off of plastic pallets before shipping. In other words it is a labor saving and cost effective way to move product off of and on to the ever-efficient plastic pallet. The Gaylord Transfer System allows companies to move product to plastic pallets thus improving plant EFFICIENCY, RAISING FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS and LOWERING OVERALL COST.

Efficiency:
Most further processing plants receive combos or boxed product from a large number of slaughter plants. Many times the processing plant can request that the product arrives a specific way, ( 1 ) On a higher quality number #1 wooden pallet, ( 2 ) Slip- sheeted so it can be pulled onto an in house pallet, or ( 3 ) Floor loaded then unloaded onto another pallet. However, the reality is most product arrives on an inferior, dirty number # 2 pallet with broken boards and exposed nails. If not that, the corrugated slip sheets tear when wet with blood or other moisture and the floor loaded product is labor intensive to load and unload. The Gaylord transfer system allows companies to receive product on any type of pallet, wood, CHEP or rental pallet. Slip sheets are no longer necessary. A quick transfer on the loading dock and the incoming pallet can be sent back with the truck driver.

Slaughter plants can use plastic pallets in production areas as they fill combos to prevent contamination, then transfer to a specific pallet for shipping to further processing plants.

Food Safety:
At the further processing plant, trim and muscle in combos are dumped into a stainless steel vat or auger for mixing or further processing. Dirt, splinters and debris from the wooden pallets are also dumped into this vat. The transfer to clean plastic pallets prevents getting this wood residue into this mixture.

With the use of clean in-house plastic pallets in both production and storage areas, you can reduce or eliminated the threat of deadly food borne pathogens, such as Listeria, E. coli 0157:H7 and Salmonella.

The Gaylord transfer system can be built with stainless steel or stainless/galvanized construction for wash down. The stainless steel can resist corrosion in most acids, alkaline solutions and chlorine bearing environments. The easy cleaning ability of stainless makes it the first choice for strict hygiene conditions. The bright, easily maintained surface of stainless steel provides a modern and attractive appearance. Stainless steel needs less maintenance and its hygienic qualities means that you do not have to use harsh cleaners to get a clean surface.

Economics:
Meat is bought and sold by the pound. Thousands of dollars are lost due to inconsistent tare weights of the wooden pallets or leaky plastic liners because of rips from nails or splinters. Damage free combo transfers, either from wood to plastic (incoming) or plastic to wood (outgoing) can be done with the Gaylord transfer system. Consistent plastic pallet tare weights mean precise weighing of combos. The elimination of wood means no ripped plastic liners and thus no lost weight.

Floor loaded product with slip sheets often become contaminated or unusable. Many older refrigerated trucks floors were not well insulated. Heat transfers from the road asphalt to the bottom of the trailer. When the combo arrives at the production plant, temperature probes show that meat at the bottom of combos can be 5°-10° higher than the rest of the combo. This leads to a high rate of product returns. Gaylord transfer system allows product to be transferred to a proper pallet for shipping, thus eliminating this serious problem.

First of all the Gaylord System can be used with any type of plastic pallet, nestable, double faced and three runner. The plastic pallet does not have to be the same height as the wooden pallet, which has always been a requirement of push style transfer units.

The Gaylord Transfer System is currently in use at Lopez Foods, Doskocil Foods of Hutchinson, Kansas and Lundy Packing among others. Its performance receives daily praise because it eliminates so many problems and also makes good sense, not to mention a good deal of financial savings. Isn't that what it's all about? Clean, efficient, safe and and money saving. Maybe this is what Mrs. Robinson was seeing in the future, plastics and how best to utilize them. "Here's to you Mrs. Robinson."

THE COMBO TRANSFER SYSTEM IN OPERATION