Pallet pool EPAL has found a new and wild way to test pallets - elephants.
EPAL tested the strength of various pallets using a baby elephant which showed that EPAL-approved pallets are able to withhold up to 48 kilonewtons force, twice as good as the non-approved pallets.
The baby elephant pictured here weighs 116 kgs, the equivalent of 1.13 kilonewtons, which could easily be held by the EPAL approved pallet. It will take six years to grow to a full adult size of 4.5-7 tonnes - shorter than the lifespan of the average EPAL-approved pallet.
EPAL has stringent quality controls for all approved manufacturers and repairers gives public access to its laboratory strength testing of EPAL-approved pallets.
EPAL is keen to point out that no laboratory testing on elephants has been conducted during these trials.
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