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Different sizes of corrugated pallets with paper cores elements

A paper pallet or ecopallet is a shipping or display pallet made from paperboard.

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Paper shipping pallets come in corrugated fiberboard, partial wood decks or engineered with laminated paperboard. Some are made of paperboard composite honeycomb. Several designs have been developed.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References[edit]

^ US 5269219, Juvik-Woods, "PALLET DESIGN USING PAPER MATERIALS", published 1993
^ US 5176090, Roberts, "RECYCLABLE PAPER PALLET", published 1993
^ US 5934202, Lai, "STRUCTURE OF PAPER PALLET", published 1999

Further reading[edit]

Fiedler, R. M, "Distribution Packaging Technology", IoPP, 1995
McKinlay, A. H., "Transport Packaging",IoPP, 2004
Soroka, W, "Fundamentals of Packaging Technology", IoPP, 2002, ISBN 1-930268-25-4
Yam, K. L., "Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology", John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-08704-6

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