The EPAL control staple is gaining acceptance! During the last session of the UIC Working Group named “Questions of Palletising“ the decision was made that, as from the beginning of this year, every newly-produced pallets have to be equipped with a control staple. These days, even those railway companies that have not joined EPAL yet (such as MAV, CD and Green Cargo) rely on the control staple as an additional criterion of being forgery-proof. From the exterior, the staple is very similar to the black and the yellow EPAL control staple that people are already familiar with, and they are therefore very easy to identify. And so, as from now you can be sure that any new pallet without a staple is to be considered a forgery – which applies to any EUR pallet bearing the symbol of a railway company on the left block and, as is usual, to EPAL pallets. Quality is catching on.