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TRANSPORT PACKAGING - REUSABLE, RIGID PLASTICS DISTRIBUTION BOXES - PART 1: GENERAL PURPOSE APPLICATION

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Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-2000

Publisher

National Standards Authority of Ireland

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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Types of reusable rigid plastic
5 Dimensions
6 Safety
7 Designation
8 Marking and Labelling
Bibliography

The four main types of reusable rigid plastics distribution boxes for application in the fields of transport, handling, storage and display of food and non-food products in distribution systems from the point of manufacture to the point of retail services are defined in this standard. These are: foldable boxes, nestable boxes, nestable and stackable boxes and rigid parallelepipedic and rectangular boxes (stackable boxes). These boxes are based on the modular and are 600 mm x 400 mm and subdivisions or multiples of it.

DocumentType	Standard
Pages	18
PublisherName	National Standards Authority of Ireland
Status	Current

Standards	Relationship
BS EN 13117-1:2000	Identical
DIN EN 13117-1:2000-08	Identical
UNI EN 13117-1 : 2001	Identical
EN 13117-1 : 2000	Identical
UNE-EN 13117-1:2001	Identical