Warehouse cages, pallets and turnover bins are not substitutes for one another; they divide the work: heavy parts in the cage, small parts in the bin, and whole-pallet handling. Use the right combination and the flow from workshop to warehouse to logistics runs far more smoothly; use it wrong and you either leak material or move inefficiently.
The standard arrangement: small parts first go into plastic turnover bins, the bins are neatly arranged inside the warehouse cage, the cage bottom sits on a pallet, and the forklift moves cage and pallet together. This way the cage prevents spill, the bin protects against moisture and static, and the pallet fits the forklift — three layers, each doing its job.
Size matching is key. A common cage internal size is 1200×1000 mm, matching a 1200×1000 mm standard pallet; turnover bins commonly are 600×400 mm, arranged 5×2, ten per layer. When buying, fix the pallet spec first, then back-calculate cage and bin sizes, to avoid big gaps inside the cage or bins that won't fit.
Empty cages fold and stack on return; empty pallets stack in multiple layers; empty turnover bins nest inside each other — the three have different recovery rates. Nanjing Tongnuo Warehouse Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., designing cage types for full-truck load efficiency since 2013, can draw plans to fit customers' existing pallets and turnover bins.
Practical advice: first measure your existing pallets and turnover bins, then choose the cage; inside the cage, let the bins cover the floor with no gaps; when stacking, put heavy bins below and light bins above; and label the outside to show contents and layer.