Welcome To The

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WelcomeTo The

• ISO TC51 International
• Pallet Testing Project
• Technical Symposium

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Project History October 2000 Resolution
2-2000, Tokyo, Japan

• ISO/TC51 notes the recommendation of WG2 in
  respect of safety and economic issues involved in
  the progression of ISO/CD 8611-2 and ISO/CD
  8611-3 to DIS, and agrees to progress both
  committee drafts to Technical Reports, and
  further, understanding the need to collate data
  to support the test methods given in Table 1 of
  ISO/CD 8611-2, proposes to develop a project to
  collect this data.

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May 2001

• International Pallet Testing Project
• Project Proposal and Request for Testing Plans
• Approved 22 May, 2001
• Revised 16 October 2001
• Revised 03 January 2002

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October 2001

• ISO TC51 Invites all member countries to
  participate in the Pallet Testing Project October
  31, 2001 DOC N621

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December 2001

• Press Release International Pallet Testing
  Project targets Global Material Handling
  Efficiency
• ISO Bulletin December 2001 Edition

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May 2002

• Project Coordination Meeting
• Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
• May 13-14, 2002

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August 2002

• Standardized reporting format sent to all
• Participating Organizations
• August 6, 2002 DOC N628

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April 2003

• ISO International Pallet Testing Project Status
  Report was forwarded to ISO TC51 WG2 members
  April 10, 2003
• A total of 132 test reports from nine (9)
  participating organizations have been received
  for inclusion in the ISO International Pallet
  Testing Project.

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The Participating Organizations

• Centre Technique Du bois Ed de LAmeublement
  (CTBA) Bordeaux Cedex, France
• W.H. Sardo Jr. Pallet Container Research
  Laboratory Blacksburg, VA USA
• Pallet Link High Wycombe United Kingdom
• Swedish Institute for Wood Technology Research
  Stockholm, Sweden
• Japanese Pallet Association Tokyo, Japan
• Fraunhofer Institut Materialfluss and Logistik
  - Dortmund, Germany
• CRIL Research Center for Wood Packaging and
  Logistics Via Dana, Italy
• China Packaging Research Test Center -
  Tianjin, China
• Packaging Research Centre SDN. BHD. Selangor,
  Malaysia
• Twenty one (21) reports from CPRTC in Tianjin
  China were withdrawn and will be re-submitted to
  ISO TC51-WG2 at a later date.
• Forty five (45) reports from the Fraunhofer
  Institut of Dortmund, Germany contained no pallet
  commercial use information.

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Status Report (continued)
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Status Report (continued)
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Status Report (continued)
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May 2003

• Summary of all reports was emailed to ISO TC51
  WG2 members May 23, 2003 and posted on the ISO
  TC51 web site

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June 2003

• Specification of all pallets tested were emailed
  to ISO TC51 WG2 members on June 5, 2003

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Special Thank You to

• Mr. Peter Hamner
• Research Associate
• Pallet Container Research Laboratory,
• Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, VA USA
• Dr. Jae Eom,
• Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering
• Myong Ji College
• Seoul, Korea
• On sabbatical leave at Virginia Tech
• Pallet Container Research Laboratory
• Mr. Gerrit Hasselmann
• Fraunhofer Institut Materialfluss und Logistik
• Dortmund, Germany