In the early days of the ISO packaging work, the Asia Pacific region members of ISO rarely participated. ISO standards take this length of time to produce because ISO insist ballots for new standards are conducted worldwide, in three languages and results strongly in favour, before publication goes ahead and this is often difficult to achieve, requiring several drafts, each with a new ballot.
Their work continued with the first in a set of supporting standards when ISO 12777-1: 1994: Methods of test for pallet joints - Part 1 - Determination of bending resistance of pallet nails was published. PalletLink later took on the convenorship of the work on pallet testing during the 1980s and this culminated in ISO 8611: 1991: General-purpose flat pallets for through transit of goods - Test methods. At that time ISO rated standards relevant to international trade as a high priority and there was already a single useful basic standard on pallet sizes to start from - ISO 6780: General purpose flat pallets for through transit of goods - Principal dimensions and tolerances. ISO technical committee TC51 covers pallets exclusively and the work on the current range of ISO pallet standards started in earnest in 1979. Each member body (a country) interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee. ISO (International Organization for Standardisation) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies) and the work of preparing International Standards is carried out through ISO technical committees.
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