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British Pallets

The most popular British pallet is the 1200 x 1000 mm, 9-block, with a full-perimeter base. That design is considered by many as the National UK pallet, though it is only one of many UK designs and does not even have a dedicated British Standard to formalise it. It is simply listed as one of five permitted modular sizes in ISO 6780 and EN 13382. (The British 1200 x 1000mm footprint originally came from the 1960s metric conversion of the dominant North American 48" x 40" 2-way stringer/bearer pallet). From the outset the UK mainly used the 9-block design with a full perimeter base, much as shown in the illustration, with the fastenings, thicknesses and wood species evolving over time.

The annual UK timber pallet production of around 55 million units now includes many overseas pallet designs such as the Europallet, CP range, French VMF and US GMA pallets. In fact we probably make and use more designs than most other European countries. In the worldwide push to reduce waste this may not be a merit, although, to balance this, there has been significant UK variety reduction in the last 10 years. The UK also has a healthy pallet recycling industry and put a lot of effort into the creation of the timber pallet recycling standard BS EN ISO 18613.

Terminology. Throughout this website we use the modern convention to define which side of a pallet is length and which side is width. The rule is that irrespective of how long or short a bearer or stringer is, the side that the bearer or stringerboard runs is the LENGTH and length is always written first. In the pallet drawing above you are looking at the pallet LENGTH. in the pallet facing, this is the WIDTH. So if the pallet here has 1000 mm deckboards and 1200 mm bearers it is described as a 1200 x 1000 mm pallet. This rule is well established commerc

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