Used export pallets

The four things that decide it

Whether used stock works for your consignment comes down to a short list, and none of the items on it is the pallet's age.

• Marking: where treated wood packaging is required, is there a legible mark on the pallets you are actually getting?
• Honesty of the mark: if the pallet has been repaired, does the mark still describe the whole pallet?
• Condition: sound blocks and bearers, no split load-bearing boards, no protruding fixings, dry and clean enough for your goods
• Customer specification: plenty of receiving sites contractually require new pallets, whatever the law says

Consistency is the real trade-off

New pallets are identical to each other. Used pallets vary, and variation costs time on the loading bay and creates awkward conversations when a customer photographs the worst one in the load. That is the honest cost of the lower unit price, and for a lot of shipments it is a cost worth paying.

Where you need a consistent grade across a recurring programme, tell us — grading tolerance is part of the specification rather than an afterthought.

Goods that argue against used stock

Food, pharmaceutical and hygiene-sensitive goods, anything in unlined cartons, and anything going into a cleanroom or an audited warehouse. Moisture, staining and residue risk outweigh the unit price in all of those cases, and we would rather say so up front than after a rejection.

Send us photographs if you already have pallets

If your question is about pallets already in your yard rather than pallets you want to buy, photographs of the pallet and both marked faces get you a much more useful answer. We will describe what is visible — construction, condition, apparent repairs, which marks are present and legible. That is product guidance, not certification.