Cost Per Pallet, Explained

Cost-per-pallet is the total cost to wrap one load to a secure standard: film consumed, labour, machine time, damage and re-wrapping.

Commodity film looks cheap per roll but delivers fewer usable metres of stretch and weaker containment — so true cost-per-pallet is higher than it appears.

At 20,000 pallets a month, closing a 40p-per-pallet gap is roughly £96,000 a year. That is the prize hiding inside an operation that only ever looked at roll price.