50 Years of Presspan Pallet Blocks: An Idea Moves the World

The story began in the mid-1970s in Unterbernbach, Bavaria. There, Anton Heggenstaller, then owner of a sawmill with an integrated pallet manufacturing operation, developed a solution to two challenges at once: a shortage of pallet lumber and large volumes of sawmill residues. “What had previously been considered low-value wood particles was transformed into a high-quality intermediate product for pallet manufacturing,” recalls EUROBLOCK Managing Director Leonhard Scherer, reflecting on the birth of the engineered wood pallet block.