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The current increase in prices for wood and pallets is apparently being exploited by some people and companies, to fraudulently offer to supply EPAL Euro pallets.

Over the past few days, many companies in Europe have received emails in which offers are made to supply EPAL Euro pallets at strikingly low prices. On enquiring, it is pointed out that due to the new business relationship, the pallets…

The hike in wood prices that started last year has continued unchanged in 2021. Initially the Covid-19 pandemic led to a decrease in wood supplies from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, but now the significantly stronger demand from North America and Asia is causing a further shortage of the high-quality coniferous woods (spruce, fir and pine) that are used to produce EPAL pallets. The shortage in…

A total of 123.5 million EPAL load carriers were produced and repaired in 2020

Throughout Europe, temperature-controlled Covid-19 vaccines are being transported on quality-tested EPAL Euro pallets

Licensees of the European Pallet Association have been receiving the following email over the past few days. This is a spam email that was not sent by the company, Bayer AG.

Please mark this email as spam in your email client and do not respond to it.

EPAL wooden pallets are treated in accordance with the ISPM 15 standard making them suitable for the unrestricted movement of goods outside the EU

EPAL Businessnews 7/2020 show

The widely held opinion that plastic pallets actually in load carrier circulation, inherently have better hygiene properties has now been convincingly proved wrong by a study by the Institute for Wood Technology Dresden.