Specifications/Information/Details of Pallets

The Importance of Pallet Specifications

Pallets are the primary interface between the finished goods and the material handling equipment.

It should provide a safe, effective shipping and storing platform throughout demanding and diverse situations in the unit load process.

It should take into consideration not only the unit load weight requirements, but all of the material handling situations the load will encounter including: free span racking, conveyor travel, forklift handling, and AGV systems.

It can be designed to accommodate any unique automated equipment performance requirements and involve among other things the product, its configuration and packaging type.

Summing up, an appropriately designed pallet can reduce product damage rates by eliminating or lessening the consequences of impacts, protruding objects and heavy loads. Correct specifications can increase material handling efficiency in all phases of the unit load process.

A proper pallet specification should also take into consideration not only the unit load weight requirements, but all of the materials handling situations the load will encounter.

Details of pallets

Old and discarded wooden pallets can be used in pallet crafts.
· can also be used as a supply of free or nearly free firewood, although for safety reasons, the amount of softwood pallets burned in a fireplace should be limited in order to prevent creosote buildup. Some consider it risky to use pallets for firewood because of the possibility that chemicals or other harmful substances have been spilled on the pallet.
· can also be used to build a skateboarding obstacle called a manual pad.
· Some pallets have even been used as barricades during amateur paintball games.


Softwood pallets are fairly easy to take apart such that the wood is excellent once the nails are removed for use as kindling for outdoor fires.


Hard wood from pallets can be reused for making outdoor items such as small animal cages as the wood from pallets is fairly weather resistant and generally very durable especially with a light coat of outdoor wood paint or stain. Hard wood from a pallet can be used for creating a short fence for keeping in small animals. Pallet wood has been recycled for use as furniture wood by at least one company. Pallet wood can be used to create fences that will last longer if painted with an outdoor stain. Pallets require being taken apart for the wood to be reused. Using a pry bar can make it easier to take apart a pallet but it still requires effort because they are well constructed. Pallet hard woods will require work equipment designed for harder woods to work with it. With sanding, staining and/or painting pallet wood can be part of a beautifully recycled wood project.