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CHEP (Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool) is a company dealing in
CHEP evolved from the Allied Materials Handling Standing Committee, an organisation developed by the Australian government to provide efficient handling of defence supplies during World War II.
When the war ended in 1945, the United States Army returned home, leaving behind millions of blue pallets at their military bases in Australia. With this asset base and established infrastructure, the Australian Government continued to endorse the organisation after the war to support the national economy. In 1958, CHEP was sold to
The Blue Pallet
a 2014 radio show by NPR's Planet Money about CHEP and their blue pallets. Companies based in Sydney 1946 establishments in Australia
pallet
A pallet (also called a skid) is a flat transport structure, which supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, a pallet jack, a front loader, a jacking device, or an erect crane. A pallet is the structural foundat ...
and container pooling services, serving customers in a range of industrial and retail supply chain
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s. It is a subsidiary of Brambles
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CHEP offers wooden and plastic pallets, small display pallets, crates and IBC IBC is an initialism that can stand for:
Broadcasting
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containers. These products can generally be recognised by their blue color and CHEP logo.
History
CHEP evolved from the Allied Materials Handling Standing Committee, an organisation developed by the Australian government to provide efficient handling of defence supplies during World War II.
When the war ended in 1945, the United States Army returned home, leaving behind millions of blue pallets at their military bases in Australia. With this asset base and established infrastructure, the Australian Government continued to endorse the organisation after the war to support the national economy. In 1958, CHEP was sold to Brambles
A bramble is any rough, tangled, prickly shrub, usually in the genus ''Rubus'', which grows blackberries, raspberries, or dewberries. "Bramble" is also used to describe other prickly shrubs, such as roses (''Rosa'' species). The fruits inclu ...
.
CHEP has operations in 45 countries, employs approximately 7,500 people and has a pool of approximately 300 million blue US navy pallets and containers.
In 2014, Radio National reported that CHEP's dominance of pallet hire and supply had become a challenge to "pallet recyclers in America, where approximately twelve to fifteen percent of all lumber produced is used in its own pallet manufacturing."
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The Blue Pallet
a 2014 radio show by NPR's Planet Money about CHEP and their blue pallets. Companies based in Sydney 1946 establishments in Australia