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Pallet and packaging industry News
12 May 2008
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.
10 April 2008
Negative vote for the new Draft Revision of ISO 8611 - Pallet Testing
The Draft revision of ISO/DIS 8611: 2007 failed some major European pallets. The main test at issue was the Bending Strength Test that has been a useful comparison between pallet designs since 1990. This has caused enough participating nations across the world to register their opposition and as a result all 3 parts of the draft standard have failed the obligatory ballot. The PalletLink Newsletter raised the issue of unwarranted failures in the draft ISO test in the Autumn 2006 issue, see below. For more details of what led up to this, go to Datasheet 21k on the PALLETS/PALLET TESTING page.
5 February 2008
Continuing a long association now in its seventh year the National Association of Pallet Distributors (NAPD) has renewed full PalletLink membership and website access for their members. The NAPD specialises in recycling, repair and reconditioning of pallets and was a main contributor to BS EN ISO 18613: 2003: Pallets for materials handling - repair of flat wooden pallets
25 January 2008
PalletLink is delighted to announce that the Timber Packaging and Pallet Confederation (TIMCON), has established an arrangement whereby its full members now also have full membership of PalletLink and can access the full website and extensive specialist technical support facilities available from PalletLink, in addition to those already on offer from TIMCON itself. The diversity of products and services available from TIMCON has expanded dramatically in recent years and when allied with PalletLink technical expertise will give TIMCON members a unique package.
John Dye, President of TIMCON, is delighted by the development and comments: "This initiative is one of the most important in our Confederation's history. By arranging members’ access to the exceptional specialist services offered by PalletLink, we are further strengthening our ability to justifiably claim a World Class package for our members".
PalletLink Newsletter
PalletLink Newsletter
The PalletLink Newsletter is produced 3 times a year, covering items such as new EU legislation that affects timber or plastic packaging, new ISO and EN standards and technical news. It particularly highlights European matters involving the commencement of new work which could eventually have an effect on members business such as the move away from CCA (copper chrome arsenic) treatments to more environmentally friendly copper based preservative timber treatments. This means there is an opportunity for organisations to input their views through trade bodies like PalletLink and modify the outcome. An example of this were the recent ENs on pallet repair and pallet collars which had a strong input from the UK. Pallet repair is now an ISO EN standard and pallet collars is an EN standard.
Upon publication members are mailed copies and shortly afterwards the Newsletter is placed below in the Members only access (blue downloads) area of the newspage. If required the Newsletter may then be placed on a Member’s website as soon as it appears on the PalletLink site, provided it is reproduced unamended and in full. Non-members have free access to older Newsletter versions to be able to sample our newsletter service. Free access downloads are highlighted in red.
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