Wrap Around Edge Board Manufacturer

One piece instead of four

A wrap-around board is a single length, scored at your pallet dimensions, folded around the perimeter. Where four separate corner boards are four placements, four chances to be slightly out of position and four chances to be skipped when the line is running late, this is one.

It also protects the straight runs between the corners, which four separate boards do not. On a top deck that is exactly where a strap crushes: not at the corner, where the board is, but a hand’s width along from it, where the board stops.

The trade-off worth knowing before you order

The scores are cut to one pallet footprint. That makes it excellent on a standardised line and awkward on a line that runs three different pallet sizes, because you now hold three part numbers where four L boards covered everything. If your footprints change often, four corners stay the more flexible answer, and we will say so rather than sell you the more complicated item.

On cost: per piece it is more board than a single corner. Per pallet it usually lands close to four corners. Per shift, once placement labour is counted, it is normally cheaper. We will quote it both ways so the comparison is yours to make.

Top frame, vertical, or both

The most common configuration is a perimeter frame on the top deck of the stack, where the strap does its crushing, with vertical L boards on the corners. Some lines use wrap-around on both the top and the base. Which combination makes sense depends on how the load is stacked in the container, which is the question we will ask when you enquire.