IS 16058 : 2024 Dunnage Pallets Made from Recycled Packaging Wastes for Warehousing Application - Specification
1 SCOPE
This standard specifies for pallets made from recycled/reprocessed packaging wastes, types of packaging wastes and its quality parameters, processing techniques of packaging wastes, standard dimensions, design criteria, requirements of reprocessed materials and components for the construction of different types of pallets and its testing, used in warehouse/godowns/port yards etc for the stacking and storage of various kinds of packaged goods like food grains, seeds, fertilizers, engineering goods for providing protection against the ingress of floor moisture and bio-degradation to provide forth aeration of stored items.
NOTE - The scope of this standard only covers the pallets intended for warehousing/storage purposes. The pallets intended for transportation applications are not covered under the scope of this standard.
2 REFERENCES
The standards given below contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision and parties to agreements based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent edition of these standards:
| IS No. | Title |
| IS 1708 (Part 5) : 1986 | Methods of testing of small clear specimens of timber: Part 5 Determination of static bending strength |
| IS 2380 | Methods of test for wood particle boards and boards from other lignocellulosic materials: |
| Part 1 : 1977 | Preparation and conditioning of test specimens |
| Part 3 : 1977 | Determination of moisture content and density |
| IS 3971 : 2019/ISO 445 : 2013 | Pallets for materials handling - Vocabulary |