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The production of EPAL Euro pallets increased by 10% in the first two quarters of 2017 compared to the previous year. In the first six months of this year, 42.5 million EPAL Euro pallets were produced worldwide. There was also an increase in the number of repairs: +11.5%, with 13.7 million repaired EPAL pallets in the first six months of 2017.

EPAL Businessnews 07/2017 show

At the 4th Pallet Conference in Jachranka the Polish National Committee of EPAL presented its new video clip about EPAL pallets and the national committee. The video is available in Polish and English

BGL, Frankfurt am Main, 07/04/2017:

On 04/04/2017 an exploratory talk took place between the new General Manager of the Bundesverbandes Güterkraftverkehr Logistik und Entsorgung (BGL) e.V. [Federal Association of Road Haulage, Logistics and Disposal], Prof. Dr Dirk Engelhardt, and the CEO of the European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL), Martin Leibrandt, as well as the Director of the EPAL...

Majority of Euro pallet users support EPAL’s recommended action. EPAL takes concerns of a few individual users seriously.

Martin Leibrandt, CEO of EPA said, “UIC’s denial of the counterfeiting of UIC/EUR pallets, hasn’t survived a week. Once more you have to ask yourself if the UIC is in a position to and intends to fulfil its duties to effectively fight counterfeit and inferior quality UIC/EUR pallets. Our decision to terminate the exchangeability agreement, was and is the right decision. The open Euro pallet...

The end of the exchangeability agreement means the greatest possible safety for users

The world’s largest pallet association, which has stood for quality assurance in the open exchange pool of Euro pallets since 1991, URGENTLY recommends that UIC pallets are not accepted any longer in order to maintain the safety of staff, products and processes. There is an increased risk in particular from UIC pallets from these countries: Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and...