INDUSTRIAL PACKAGING: TECHNOLOGY, APPLICATIONS AND PRECAUTIONS IN THE CASE OF PALLETIZED PRODUCTS

The packaging sector is rapidly rising in the last years and it is continuously looking for new techniques for development and optimization. In this industrial sector the producer has the target to ensure a packaging able to contain the load within a certain volume and at the same time to protect it from the environmental effects. One of the most critical issues in this sector is related to handling and transport of the products, when they can experience disastrous consequences for their integrity. This fact has encouraged the producers to develop new techniques to investigate the environmental conditions and the level of stress acting on the products during transport and handling. Only in this way it is possible to look for new innovative solutions, more effective in the containment and protection of products. In this work we will focus on those aspects related to transport of palletized products, trying to provide a state of art of the solutions used for protecting goods.