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Snap The Pallet, the EPAL photo contest, has been running since December 2021 and is becoming a great success. After just one month, EPAL has received more than 100 photos featuring EPAL Euro pallets, sent in by participants from all over the world. Now the first winners have been announced:

The top prize (€1,000) goes to a photo from Turkey (see picture), other prizes (€100) go to France, Italy,…

Every year, the Deutsche Institut für Normung e.V. (German Institute for Standardization - DIN) awards prizes to special projects and initiatives which document the significance of standardisation and specification to the economy and society. EPAL won the DIN user prize in 2021: this prize acknowledges the showcasing of use of standards and specifications that benefit the economy and initiatives…

EPAL SUISSE, the Swiss member association of the European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL), elected a new board and president on 15 December 2021. In spite of restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 19 of the total of 26 members who produce or repair EPAL pallets or offer SBB exchange frames and SBB exchange lids in Switzerland took part in EPAL SUISSE's general meeting.

More than 600 million EPAL Euro pallets are in use worldwide: on lorries, in supermarkets or in warehouses. But they are also used to make furniture, to decorate shops, as fittings in cafés and clubs, or as stages at open-air festivals. EPAL Euro pallets are in plain sight everywhere and are part of an international sharing economy. EPAL is celebrating 30 years of EPAL and 60 years of the Euro…

On 25.11.2021 the Board of the European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL) discussed current topics of the EPAL European Pallet Exchange Pool. Originally planned as a meeting of the Board members in Berlin, the Board meeting was held at short notice as a video conference for reasons of precaution due to the increase in Covid 19 infections.

Under what conditions can an EPAL Euro pallet no longer be exchanged? Is the quality of a Euro pallet reduced by wood splintering or residual labels? How do you know if a pallet is suitable for a high-bay racking system? What is the optimum quality for automated processes? These and many other queries are answered in the EPAL Quality Classification and Terms of Exchange. The new edition of the…

The board of the European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL) met on 14 September 2021 in Zurich for its first face-to-face meeting since November 2019. As all the meetings in 2020 and the previous meetings in 2021 had to be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was a great pleasure for all participants to finally meet again in person.

The Board of the European Pallet Association (EPAL) has appointed Bernd Dörre to Managing Director of EPAL. He succeeds Christian Kühnhold who held the position with EPAL until 31st March 2021.