Pallets

The figure that decides a racking layout

An EPAL pallet carries 1500 kg safe working load, 3000–4000 kg static, and roughly 1000 kg racked. Rack capacity is about a third of static, not most of it.

If a layout was calculated from the static number, it is over-loaded. This is the most common misreading of a pallet datasheet, and it is worth checking before anything else on this page.

Which pallet for which job

ISPM 15

Heat treatment against timber pests is required for wooden packaging leaving the EU and is not required for intra-EU movements. Our plant has the kiln on site, which adds two working days rather than the five a subcontracted treatment adds.

If you re-export goods on our pallets to a third country, order treated pallets from the start — retro-treating a loaded pallet is not practical.

Pressed plywood pallets are outside the scope of the standard entirely, which for a first-time exporter removes a whole category of border problem.

Moisture

Timber above 22% moisture shrinks as it dries, and nails loosen with it. Every pallet we ship is kiln-dried below that figure, and it is worth measuring on any pallet delivered from a yard rather than a plant.

Load planning

Thirty-three euro pallets fit a 13.6 m curtainsider. The truck and pallet load calculator runs the same arithmetic we use when quoting, including double-stacking for light goods.