BS 1133-8 – Packaging code

BS 1133-8:2011+A1:2016 provides guidance for manufacturers, users and specifiers ofwooden boxes, cases and crates for industrial, defence and other commercialapplications.

This document contains guidance on wood species, sheet materials andfastenings likely to be encountered by UK manufacturers or export packers andgives guidance on the design of:

industrial, defence and commercial cases and crates;
ranges of smaller sawn wood boxes for general use;
ranges of plywood and wood-based sheet boxes and cases;
plywood cases of metal edge construction;
wirebound boxes, crates and cases;
warehouse storage containers.

This British Standard also gives brief guidance on sustainability and recycling.

Annex A contains health and safety information.

Annex B contains tables of sizes for skids sills and rails.

NOTE 1 Knowledge of engineering principles is needed to produce a designspecification from the information given in certain tables, particularly in relation tolarge cases and crates.

NOTE 2 Much of the information in this British Standard might also be of value inother areas where wood is used in packaging and distribution, e.g. agriculturalboxes and pallets.

Cross References:
BS EN 12246
BS EN 13183-2
BS EN 13246
BS EN 13427
BS EN 22872
BS EN 22874
BS EN ISO 2234
BS EN ISO 4180
BS EN ISO 15867
BS ISO 6780
BS 373
BS 1133-7.6
BS 1133-10.1
BS 1133-10.2
BS 1133-15
BS 1133-18
BS 1133-19
BS 1133-22
BS 4894
BS 4978
BS 7195
BS EN 300
BS EN 312
BS EN 314-2:1993
BS EN 335-2
BS EN 335-3
BS EN 409
BS EN 622-2
BS EN 622-5
BS EN 635-5
BS EN 636
BS EN 1313-1
BS EN 1995-1-1
BS EN 10230-1
BS EN 13183-3
BS EN 13246
BS EN 13382
BS EN 13394
BS EN 13427
BS EN ISO 12777
BS ISO 1496
BS ISO 15629
FAO ISPM 15:2002
995/2010/EC
Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2003
94/62/EC
2004/102/EC
Plant Health (Fees) (Forestry) Regulations 2006
Plant Health (Forestry) (Amendment) Order 2006
Plant Health (Forestry) (Wood Packaging Material Marking) Order 2006