He will continue the excellent and sustained committee work Stan Bowes has established over the past few years, Robert Hollinger promises immediately following his appointment as EPAL president.

Since the beginning of July, the biggest National Committee within EPAL, Gütegemeinschaft Paletten in Germany, has had a new Managing Director, Martin Leibrandt. Changes have also taken place within our two youngest National Committees, with affairs in Bulgaria, Romania and Greece being managed with immediate effect by Konstantin Vangelov and in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) by Janas Likso. All three take this opportunity to introduce themselves to you.

How easy it can be to avoid risks and unnecessary costs and even save time directly from the country of export.

For EPAL as an international organization, the internet as an information platform is extremely important. A recent statistical evaluation of the number of visits to our website has revealed that it is internationally increasingly becoming the rule first to pick up the mouse and then the telephone in order to quickly obtain reliable information.

In close cooperation with the Belgian National Committee, the testing and inspection organization SGS and GS1 Belgium, EPAL has developed a new certification system for users of EPAL/EUR pallets.

What many people don’t know: Not only are fashion and sports articles, watches, etc. subject to trademark protection, but so are items of everyday use. These also and in particular include EPAL/EUR pallets.