The German pallet market: further slackening in demand since the beginning of October

After the already rather sluggish start to the year, the level of business activity on the German markets for standard pallets has not displayed any fundamental revival by the beginning of March 2023 either. Manufacturers are rating current receipts of orders and capacity utilisation as at least satisfactory to...

An output of pallets already reduced since the middle of the fourth quarter of 2022 is also coinciding with rather slack demand for euro and chemical pallets at the beginning of 2023. Manufacturers are describing receipts of orders in the first few weeks as lower than average. The reach of orders has tended to decline....

Weaker demand in recent weeks as well as further declines in purchase prices for softwood lumber have also led to price corrections on the Central European markets for flat wooden pallets by the end of August. In current contracts with large customers, generally speaking the €20 mark could no longer be maintained for...