Car wheels

Car Wheels on a pallet, strapping and wrapping
 
We talk about wheels without tires. These consist of a disc and a rim. Laymen call it a rim. The specialists call it wheels. The buyers determine in detail how the wheels must be packaged, ie how the pallet load can be secured. Car manufacturers often supply the pallets to the wheel manufacturers.
These are usually wooden pallets with dimensions 1150 x 1130 mm. Recently steel pallets are also available (EWPS = European Wheel Pallet System). They are organized in a so-called pool and are recommended by the VDA (German Association of the automotive industry). Between 40 and 80 wheels (average weight of about 10 kg) are usually placed on a pallet, either portrait or landscape. Example: 2 x 3 lying on the outside and two inside wheels 10 = 80 layers.
Each layer is separated from the next by a hard fibre board, a grid, a frame or a plastic mold is formed so that each individual wheel can not move. A wooden shelf, or pallet, with steel pallets, A steel frame is placed on top of the pallet, allowing four pallets be stacked safely.
 
Pallet Loads for car manufacturers are usually cross strapped with 3 2 or 2 x 2 cycles. The auto repair market (which need parts) require the cargo pallet wrapped with film. For this, black PE film. In the past, the pallets where strapped by hand and wrapped with asemi-automatic shrink wrap machines. Today, fully automatic packaging equipment is available, powered conveyor transports the pallet to a turntable, which is part of the strapping station. Installing an XP 211, it is capable of two strap cycles side by side. There are only 2 or 3 strapping cycles needed to  secure the load to the pallet. Strong, high stretch Polyester film is applied at the end of the conveyor belt by an automatic wrapping machine along with topsheet dispenser.