Pallet Accessories

A hinged pallet collar sits on a standard pallet and stacks to whatever height you need, turning it into an open-top crate. Between uses it folds flat, so it ships back for almost nothing. That is single-use box spend eliminated and packaging waste avoided.

• Fold-flat for cheap return freight
• Stack to variable heights
• Reusable for years
• Fits standard footprints

Top caps and frames protect and stabilize stacked loads; runner-style skids provide a low-profile base for specific handling needs. Combined with collars, they let you build a fully reusable unit-load system out of components that are themselves recyclable.

A pallet collar is a rectangular wooden frame, usually made of thin softwood boards joined at the corners by four steel hinges. The hinges let it fold flat when empty and lock it square when opened. Dropped onto a standard pallet, one collar creates a shallow open-top box; add a lid or top cap and the sides gain roughly the height of a collar with each layer.

In use, you load the pallet, drop a collar over it, and fill it. When you need more height, you stack a second and third collar and keep loading. Many collars have a hinged access flap on one side so a worker can reach in at a lower level without unstacking. Because the walls are rigid, collared loads stack on top of each other in storage and transit without crushing the goods below.

That combination of adjustable height, fold-flat return, and stackability is what makes collars so efficient compared with a fixed crate, which takes the same space full or empty.

• Thin-board frame with four folding steel hinges
• Stack multiple collars for adjustable height
• Optional access flap for lower layers
• Rigid walls let collared loads stack safely

Reach for collars when you want a collapsible open-top container that returns flat, ideal for parts, produce, and mixed goods on a reusable loop. Use top caps to close and protect a stack, keep dust and light off the load, and provide a flat surface for another pallet to sit on. Use top frames to unitize and stabilize a tall or loose stack so it rides safely.

Skids, which are runner-style bases without a bottom deck, suit heavy single-direction handling and permanent equipment mounting where the load is set down once and rarely moved by pallet jack. Matching the accessory to the handling pattern keeps you from over-buying: a simple cap solves a lot of problems a full crate would be wasted on.

Collars are most commonly built to fit the 48x40 footprint, but because they are simple frames we can make them to custom sizes to match your pallet and product. Standard depths let you dial in load height in predictable increments as you add layers.

Wooden accessories are durable and repairable. Hinges can be replaced when they wear, and a cracked collar board can be swapped rather than scrapping the whole frame. Keep collars dry and off bare ground the same as pallets, store them folded flat and banded in stacks, and inspect the hinges periodically. Treated properly, a set of collars cycles for years and repays its cost many times over against single-use cartons.

• Standard 48x40 fit plus custom sizes
• Replaceable hinges and boards extend life
• Store folded, banded, dry, and off the ground
• Years of reuse versus disposable cartons

Accessories are one of the most direct ways to cut packaging waste. A reusable collar and cap system replaces a stream of single-use corrugated boxes and stretch wrap, and when the components are built from reclaimed wood the footprint is lower still. At end of life the wood re-enters our recycling stream just like a pallet, so nothing is landfilled.

To order, tell us the pallet footprint you build on, the load height and weight you need to contain, and whether the loop returns to you. We will recommend the right mix of collars, caps, frames, or skids, quote reclaimed or new material, and size everything to your standard or a custom footprint. Pairing accessories with a returnable-pallet program gives you a complete reusable unit-load system.