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Alexandria, VA and Orlando, FL – The National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA) released a press release saying that their examination of 12,084 Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) pallets collected at locations across the U.S. and awaiting pick-up revealed that 9.7% of those plastic pallets do not carry the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) or Factory Mutual (FM) marks. This raises a question as to whether these 1,173 unmarked plastic pallets contain the fire retardant deca-bromine and accordingly whether they represent a fire hazard.

According to NWPCA, the pallets were inspected in response to differing opinions by a task group of the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) over whether or not all of the pallets used by iGPS contain the fire retardant deca-bromine.

Bruce Scholnick, NWPCA president and CEO, says, "They failed to point out the flammability difference between their pallets and the high fuel-load plastic pallets with which they are competing."

Read the full press release from NWPCA at prnewswire.com.

Meanwhile, iGPS released a press release calling for wood pallets to be subjected to the same fire safety standards as pallets made of plastic, aluminum and other materials.

"As pallet fires break out across the U.S., causing millions of dollars of damage and putting workers' and firefighters' lives at risk, it is time for the fire safety testing exemption given to wood pallets to be rescinded and all wood pallets should undergo the same independent fire safety testing applied to pallets of alternative materials," says Bob Moore, CEO of iGPS.

The press release also calls NWPCA’s press release “highly inaccurate and self-serving” and says, “NWPCA attempted to imply that the National Association of Fire Marshals shared its partisan views, which is patently false and an attempt to deflect attention from the dangers presented by wood pallets.”

Read the full press release from iGPS at prnewswire.com.

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