Tote and Dunnage Washers

Tote & Dunnage Part Washers
Industrial Tote Washing Machines & Dunnage Wash Systems
Improve container cleanliness, reduce the risk of contamination, and streamline daily operations with Better Engineering’s industrial tote-washing machines and dunnage-washing systems. Designed for demanding production environments, our systems provide automated, repeatable cleaning for reusable totes, bins, trays, crates, pallets, and dunnage used throughout manufacturing, food processing, pharmaceutical, and logistics operations.

By replacing manual washdown with a controlled automated process, tote washers help improve consistency, reduce labor, minimize water and chemical waste, and support higher sanitation and quality standards. Whether you need to clean lightweight plastic totes, heavy-duty containers, or custom dunnage used to protect parts in transit, Better Engineering can design a solution around your parts, soil load, throughput requirements, and facility layout.
How Tote and Dunnage Washers Work
Better Engineering tote washers use a controlled, automated cleaning process to remove soils from reusable containers and dunnage with consistency and efficiency. Totes, bins, trays, crates, pallets, and custom dunnage are loaded into the system and exposed to strategically positioned high-pressure spray nozzles that deliver heated cleaning solution across interior and exterior surfaces.

The combination of spray impingement, temperature, chemistry, and cycle control helps remove dirt, oils, grease, food residue, dust, and production debris more effectively than manual washdown methods. Systems can be configured with dedicated wash, rinse, sanitizing, blow-off, and drying stages to meet your specific cleanliness, throughput, and regulatory requirements.

For higher-volume operations, Better Engineering can integrate automation for automated stacking, destacking, loading, and unloading. These features reduce manual handling, improve ergonomics, increase throughput, and keep totes moving efficiently through the wash process.

Systems can also include automated chemical dispensing and data recording capabilities to support process consistency, traceability, and quality control. Chemical dosing helps maintain proper wash and sanitizing concentrations, while data logging can capture key cleaning parameters such as cycle times, temperatures, chemical usage, and alarm history.

The result is a repeatable, documented cleaning process that improves container hygiene, reduces contamination risk, and helps keep reusable assets ready for production, storage, or shipment.
Built for Industrial Container Cleaning
Better Engineering tote washers and bin washers are engineered for facilities that rely on reusable packaging, returnable containers, and material handling assets. From high-volume manufacturing plants to food processing, pharmaceutical, logistics, and automotive operations, our systems deliver consistent, repeatable cleaning results for the containers that keep your operation moving.

Whether you need to clean returnable transport packaging, automotive dunnage, ingredient totes, warehouse bins, or custom trays and inserts, Better Engineering can configure a washing system around your container size, soil load, throughput requirements, and cleanliness standards.
Common Applications

Plastic totes and reusable containers
Industrial bins and bulk containers
Dunnage trays and inserts
Crates and material handling containers
Returnable transport packaging
Automotive dunnage systems
Food and ingredient containers
Warehouse and distribution containers

Why Choose Better Engineering?
Consistent Cleaning
Automated wash cycles ensure every tote, bin, or dunnage component receives the same controlled cleaning process every time—improving repeatability, quality, and confidence in container cleanliness.
Reduced Labor
Eliminate time-consuming manual cleaning and improve operational efficiency. Automated tote and dunnage washers help reduce hands-on labor, minimize operator exposure to soils and chemicals, and free employees for higher-value tasks.
Improved Sanitation
Support quality, safety, and contamination control initiatives with repeatable cleaning performance. Configurable wash, rinse, sanitizing, and drying stages help facilities maintain cleaner reusable containers across production, storage, and logistics operations.
Data Recording & Traceability
Optional data recording capabilities allow facilities to capture key cleaning parameters such as cycle times, temperatures, chemical dosing, alarms, and system events. This helps support process verification, quality control, documentation requirements, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Sustainability Support
Reusable containers already play an important role in reducing single-use packaging waste. Better Engineering tote washers help customers further support their sustainability goals by making reusable totes, bins, trays, and dunnage easier to clean, reuse, and return to service. Automated systems can also be configured to optimize water, energy, and chemical usage compared to manual washdown methods.
Custom Engineered Solutions
Our tote and dunnage washers are configured to match your container sizes, soil loads, throughput requirements, facility constraints, and cleanliness standards. From standalone washers to fully automated systems with stacking, destacking, chemical dispensing, and data recording, Better Engineering builds solutions around your operation.
Designed for Multiple Industries
From food processing and pharmaceutical manufacturing to automotive assembly, logistics, and distribution operations, Better Engineering tote washing systems help facilities maintain cleaner reusable containers while reducing manual labor, improving consistency, and supporting operational efficiency.

Our tote washers and dunnage wash systems can be configured for a wide range of applications, including sanitation-focused environments, high-volume production areas, returnable packaging programs, and facilities with strict quality or traceability requirements.

Explore our tote washers and dunnage wash systems below to find the right solution for your application.