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Common Industry Requests
Pallet Glossary

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Common Industry Requests

Olympic offers a wide range of products and services to customers in industries for their specific material handling requirements. Because our business is based on meeting the specific requirements of our customer and delivering a quality product, our products are not limited to those listed below. Our product line is as limitless as the needs of those we serve.

2-way Entry Pallet	A pallet with un-notched solid runners allowing entry only from the ends.
4-way Entry Pallet	A pallet that has entry from all four sides.
All Hardwood Pallet	Wood from a broad-leafed tree species.
All Softwood Pallet	Wood from the coniferous or needle bearing species of trees.
Block Pallet	Type of pallet with blocks and stringers between the pallet decks instead of runners.
Box	A shipping container that requires a base and sides.
Crate	(See Box.)
Combo Pallet	A repaired pallet that may have a combination of new runners and recycled decking or vice versa.
Collapsible Container Assembly	A corrugated box assembled onto a pallet using staples to create a single-use shipping container.
Double-Face Pallet	A pallet with top and bottom deck boards.
Double-Wing Pallet	A pallet with top and bottom deck boards extending beyond the edges of the stringers or runners.
Drum Pallet	A pallet used primarily to ship drums on and is usually made with a heavy specification.
Dunnage	Lumber, soft or hard wood, cut to a specific size for shipping and handling.
Euro Pallet	Pallets that are used primarily for transporting goods in Europe. Most popular size is 1200mm x 800 mm.
Exchange Pallet	A pallet intended for use among a designated group of shippers and receivers where ownership of the pallet is transferred with the ownership of the unit load; common pool pallet.
Expendable Pallet	A pallet intended for a series of handlings during a single trip from shipper to receiver; it is then disposed. (See Shipping Pallet.)
Flush Pallet	A pallet with deck boards flush with runners, stringer boards, or blocks along the ends.
GMA Pallet	(Grocery Manufacturers Association); one of the few "standard" pallets and is 48" long x 40"wide with standard specifications for the bill of materials and configuration of the top and bottom deck boards.
Non-Reversible Pallet	A pallet with bottom deck board configuration different from the top deck.
Notch	A cut out of the runner to allow the tow motor to enter the pallet on all four sides.
OSB	(Oriented Standard Board); an engineered mat-formed panel product made of strands, flakes or wafers, sliced from small diameter, round wood logs, layered for a specific thickness and bonded with an exterior- type adhesive under heat and pressure.
Panel Deck Pallet	A pallet constructed with composite or structural panel top deck.
Plastic Pallet	A pallet made of plastic materials.
Ply	A thin sheet of wood used in making plywood.
Plywood	A mat-formed panel made of hardwood or softwood, formed by a number of plies glued together in alternating layers, to increase the strength and stability.
Recycled Pallet	A pallet or container that has been used, discarded, salvaged, and repaired to pass through the cycle of use again.
Reusable Pallet	A pallet designed to be used for more than one trip.
Reversible Pallet	A pallet with identical top and bottom decks.
Runner Type Pallet	A pallet that has a solid piece of wood, the runner, which the deck boards are fastened to.
Shipping Pallet	Pallet designed to be used for a single one-way trip from shipper to receiver; it is then disposed; (See Expendable Pallet.)
Single-Face Pallet	A pallet that has only top deck boards fastened to the runners.
Single Wing Pallet	A pallet with overhang of deck board from the outside edge of the stringer to increase unit-load area.
Skid	A pallet without bottom deck boards.
Solid Deck Pallet	A pallet that has a solid top decking or full coverage.
Warehouse Pallet	A double-face multiple trip returnable pallet intended for general warehouse use.