The German pallet market: price increase continues up to the end of August – albeit to a lesser extent

Business activity on the central European markets for flat wooden pallets has not picked up over the last six weeks until early June and correspondingly remains at a below-average level for the time of year. Despite reduced production for months now, market players continue to report a greater supply of standard...

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....