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The Australian standard pallet is designed for use with the RACE container of Australian railways. Originally the pallet was specified at 46 × 46 inches (from a nominal size of 48 × 48 inches, or 4 ft × 4 ft), [3] but this has been metricated to the marginally smaller 1165 × 1165 mm dimensions.
Pallets conforming to the standardization are eligible for the European Pallet Pool (EPP), the system which allows for an exchange as "pallet for pallet". The EUR/EPAL-pallet is 800 mm × 1,200 mm × 144 mm (31.5 in × 47.2 in × 5.7 in); it is a four-way pallet made of wood that is nailed with 78 special nails in a prescribed pattern.
The National Wood Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA) is a trade organization based in the United States representing the interests of wood pallet and container manufacturers. [ 26 ] The U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command maintains MIL-STD-1660, the standard description of palletized unit loads ...
The new sturdy HCU-6/E pallet was a drastic improvement to the older lightweight balsa wood pallets used by the Air Force in previous years. Each HCU-6/E pallet is 88 inches (220 cm) wide, 108 inches (270 cm) long, and 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (5.7 cm) high. The usable space is 84 by 104 in (210 by 260 cm).
The most common sizes (length × width) are 600 by 400 millimetres (24 in × 16 in) and 400 mm × 300 mm (16 in × 12 in), which can be stacked together to fill a Euro-pallet measuring 1,200 mm × 800 mm (47 in × 31 in).
Today I added a picture of a pallet to the article. I use pallets at work all the time, and I own a digital camera. Thus, if anyone has a suggestion for how to improve the picture, I can easily oblige. --Dbenbenn 03:15, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC) And here's a picture of a more typical wooden pallet. It's the ISO standard size, 100 by 120 by 12 cm.