What is Heat Treatment ?

What is Heat Treatment ?

Our ISPM 15 Heat Treated Wooden Pallets are excellent for the strength, dryness and sanitation and will always surpass your expectation from pallets for prices as well.

We are one of the leading suppliers of ISPM15 complaint heat treated wooden pallets. We are widely recognized as a very reliable source among the heat treated pallet manufacturing companies in India. We carry out a very stringent quality check for these type of pallets to make sure the pallets are manufactured according to the design proposed.

Our ISPM15 Heat Treated wooden Pallets are very rigid, durable and can be easily reused as well because of the long life of these pallets.

These heat treated wooden pallets are treated to the highest possible standards in the industry and hence have received admiration from many of our customers of quality.

Due to the volume of wooden packaging being shipped across borders there is an internationally agreed check to make sure there are no nasty bugs hiding in the timber which could cause devastation in vulnerable countries. The packaging standard that protects the world's forests from disease is called the International Phytosanitary Standard for Packaging (ISPM15).

Every piece of wooden packaging that is treated is stamped with a internationally recognised mark to prove the packaging item has been treated to the ISPM15 standard. This mark essentially acts as a passport for the packaging item allowing it to be confidently transported across international borders with the knowledge it does not contain wood-borne pests.

The image below shows the relevant information that should be included on each heat treated pallet or wooden packaging item in accordance with ISPM15.

This stamp proves that a pallet has been sufficiently heat treated to the standards of ISPM15. If a certificate is also needed as proof, these can be supplied by the appropriate registered company although the stamp itself is like a mini certificate on each pallet or wooden packaging item.

To ensure that the threat of bugs has been eliminated the most common form of treatment of wooden packaging is heat treatment. A heat treatment kiln must treat the packaging for a minimum period of 30 minutes at a constant temperature of 56oC at the core of the wood. There is full accountability of heat treated pallets making it an important aspect of pallet movements across borders. The inclusion of the heat treatment symbol on each pallet gives importers the confidence that there is no risk of transferring wood-borne diseases that could cause threats to woodlands and forests.

Companies across the world are certified to heat treat pallets to the ISPM15 standard. Each company is given an individual reference number allowing all packaging that has been treated to be traced back to the company that treated it.