Inertial forces occur during the internal transport of a pallet with palletized goods. Therefore, transport packaging must guarantee that the goods resist these destructive forces. The effectiveness of a stretch hood as a transport package is researched in this study. Firstly, it is determined if a stretch hood can be applied accordingly without it being damaged by the forks of a forklift or an AGV when being picked up. Secondly, the resistance to horizontal inertial forces during the internal transport of a stretch hooded pallet load is researched. The performed study shows that many parameters influence the sleeving process. A well‐chosen stretch hood, applied with the correct machine settings, can guarantee both minimum requirements for internal transport.

Due to increasing pressure on brand owners and distributors to avoid single use plastics such as plastic bundle packaging, a new bundle packaging that consists of corrugated board only, has been designed. Obviously this new packaging should equally enable transportability. This study compares the transportability of bundles using corrugated board on the one hand and bundles using plastic collation shrink film on the other. In particular, the resistance to varying horizontal inertial forces is compared experimentally. All tested bundle packagings of corrugated board perform well above expectations and significantly better than shrink film packaging. All additional requirements regarding marketing, durability, consumer convenience, …are met.