This standard specifies the four main types of reusable rigid plastics distribution boxes for application in the fields of handling, transport, storage and display of food and non-food products in distribution systems from the point of manufacture to the point of retail services:
These are:
a) rigid parallelepipedic and rectangular boxes (stackable boxes)
b) foldable boxes
c) nestable boxes
d) nestable and stackable boxes.
These boxes are based on the modular area 600 mm × 400 mm and subdivisions or multiples of it.
BS EN 13117-1:2000 history
2000BS EN 13117-1:2000 Transport packaging. Reusable, rigid plastics distribution boxes. General purpose application