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Recent News: Michael Jack - It is with the greatest regret that we announce the sudden death of Michael Jack of the Scott Timber Group, Chairman of the NAPD and longstanding PalletLink Member. We offer his family and colleagues our deepest sympathy.

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Welcome to PalletLink’s new website which has been completely revised and updated to mark the 10th anniversary of our formation.

For those of you who don’t know us, PalletLink is a UK-based association offering advice on technical aspects of pallets and packaging. We are well experienced in the methods and designs used by the industry at home and abroad and recognized as a trusted source by wood pallet and packaging manufacturers, suppliers to the packaging industry and end users of packaging and pallets. On this website we provide to our members downloadable datasheets, explanatory illustrations and working Excel programmes for pallet design optimisation. To give casual visitors without a password a better idea of what we do, we have made a few Datasheets freely downloadable across the site at the foot of certain pages, these are highlighted in red.

We have many individual member companies but PalletLink also provides a full technical service to the members of the UK associations TIMCON and NAPD. If you are already a full member of either of these two organisations you are automatically a member of PalletLink (see NEWS page) but to get full benefit from this website you will need a password. Most members already have theirs, but if you don't then to apply for one visit the JOIN PALLETLINK page. Simply complete Form 3 and send it to us. If you have mislaid your password, contact us and we will reissue it.

We also test wood packaging and pallets and review new test methods used in the industry and our datasheets include summaries of major test methods. We have produced publications for major bodies, for example, we recently produced a Wood Packaging Manual for Developing Countries for the UN Trade Centre in Geneva, we were also the main contractor for BSI producing BS 7611: Potato storage boxes for mechanical handling.

If you are a pallet or packaging manufacturer you may need help to meet a customer’s unusual requirements. For example if you need advice on board sizes for a DIN 15146 pallet, or whether a pallet is suitable for drive-in racking, we have a free hotline for members. For many things like a VMF, a GMA, a CP, or a Europallet spec, you will find it already on the site. We are steadily adding datasheets to reflect the most popular member enquiries, there are already over 100 downloadable datasheets with many more planned for 2008.

If you are a supplier to the industry we welcome nail manufacturers, timber sawmills, treatment specialists and user trade associations into membership. If you work through this website you will see we have considerable experience of technical factors in those fields. The vast majority of member enquiries fit into the free advice category but should you feel you have a particularly difficult problem we offer ad-hoc technical consultancy. This is available to any client whether a PalletLink member or not. In the recent past consultancy has been for solicitors, UK Health and Safety Executive, a European nail manufacturer, plastic pallet manufacturers and timber pallet recyclers. All PalletLink members receive a 25% discount on consultancy fees.

With the increasing interest in the subject we have extended our scope to include technical support for plastic pallets, plastic (tote) boxes and roll containers (roll pallets) and conducted a major test programme on roll containers. We now offer ISO 8611 testing of plastic pallets and some of the pages on this site show these on test. A small number of our members supply plastic pallets and packaging or roll-containers exclusively.

For enquiries fax or e-mail us anytime, or telephone during office hours, there are three experienced staff to take your call. In the unusual event that we cannot easily find the answer, be assured that we never approach another PalletLink member to help us out so your sales leads are fully protected.