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