Posted By Merv Newman
Just for general information, I read an article this morning on the replacement of wooden pallets with ones made of cardboard.

No risk of nails or splinters, weigh 3kg instead of 25 and can take the same load. Same shape and form.

No manufacturer's name was given and I think they are at a pre-production level.

But it sounds like a great idea to me. is there anything like that in the UK ?

Merv

Posted By Merv Newman
Jon,

The article says "no problems with water contact"

Presumably this means they don't mind getting splashed. But I probably wouldn't like to leave them out in the yard.

Report also says they have been tested to 6 000 kg

Merv

Posted By PS
Guy's,

In a previous life I worked in a Taiwanese manufacturing facility based in Scotland and most of the deliveries from Asia were on cardboard pallets. The pallets are coated in wax to keep them dry from moisture. The problems with them were that they were not as big as the Euro shipping pallets thus we could not fit them on the racking without putting them on a Euro pallet!! & as it was Scotland it tended to rain a lot, so the pallets ended up soaked and seriously damaged.

Cheers

Gary

Posted By Merv Newman
Peter,

thanks for that link. Doesn't look quite the same model.

I've e-mailed to the company testing them (based in Brittany) and will let you all know.

Merv

Posted By Simon Carrier
And the entry, finally from the UK.

http://www.cellpaksoluti....com/shipping_crates.htm

Posted By Alan Nicholls
What happened to the recycled wood chip resin bonded ones looked like big egg boxes. They were waterproof very light and also made very good fires.
My pet hate were the plastic pallet boxes with drop-down fronts.750mil sides, manual handling nightmare.

We had our cardboard flat pack boxes delivered on cardboard pallets, 2 layers of card with card tubes in the middle. Use once and recycle.

Regards Alan N