Environmental friendly: FHG IPP Logipal's wooden pallets life cycle

FHG IPP Logipal takes environmental sustainability seriously. The timber used for our pallets comes from sustainably managed forests and is PEFC (www.pefc.org) certified. Trees function as a kind of CO2 container as do our wooden pallets. Once a pallet’s life cycle ends, the wood is reused for other purposes: chipboard, biomass or bio energy generation. Our responsible approach towards handling pallets means fewer C02 emissions and consequently a healthier environment. In addition to pallet certification, FHG IPP Logipal reduces CO2 emissions by:

• using pallet pooling instead of disposable pallets so that packaging is continually reused
• reducing the number of transport movements. For instance, our transport collaboration services help a customer optimally use its transport fleet by utilising excess or sub-optimal capacity when delivering or collecting pallets.

Another way to reduce empty kilometres is to eliminate transportation between the depot and the customer by sorting and repairing pallets at a customer’s production location.

Facts & Figures

The focus of FHG IPP Logipal, together with its suppliers, all subsidiaries of the FHG, is environmental sustainability. Together we help improve the environment by:

• using timber from sustainably managed forests
• reusing packaging
• reducing the number of transport movements
• improving a manufacturing plant’s insulation
• burning wood waste to dry timber
• using scrap wood to repair pallets instead of shredding
• reusing wood as chipboard or in generating electricity
• using paint which is biological and doesn’t contain chemical solvents.