Buy EURO-Pallets produced by EPAL licensed manufacturers are inspected under strict quality procedures, at regular intervals. Euro pallets bearing the EPAL quality mark indicates they are certified and have been inspected by EPAL. This offers assurance of global safety and goes just basic branding. Each EUR-Pallet has security features to reduce counterfeiting. Such includes a quality control staple or marking nail that uniquely identifies the producer and/or the repairing company.
EPAL Pallet Pool
EPAL is a cooperative pallet pool used throughout Europe and is the largest pallet pool in the world. There is somewhere between 300 million and 500 million pallets estimated to be in circulation. In 2006 alone approx. 52 million new EUR pallets have been produced under licence of EPAL and put into circulation. The earliest roots of EPAL began many years ago when the European railways founded a railway union, (UIC), to discuss the common interests.