CHEP

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title: "CHEP" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["companies-based-in-sydney", "1946-establishments-in-australia"] description: "Australian pallet and container company" topic_path: "geography/australia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHEP" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Australian pallet and container company ::

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Field	Value
name	CHEP
logo	CHEP (Brambles) logo.svg
foundation	1946
founder	Government of Australia
location_city	Sydney
location_country	Australia
industry	Equipment pooling
products	Automotive containers
Chemical catalyst containers
Intermediate bulk containers
Pallets
Returnable plastic containers
owner	Brambles Limited
website
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CHEP (Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool) is an Australian company dealing in pallet and container pooling services, serving customers in a range of industrial and retail supply chains. It is a subsidiary of Brambles.

CHEP offers wooden and plastic pallets, small display pallets, crates and IBC containers. These products can generally be recognised by their blue color and CHEP logo.

History

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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.

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."

References

References

1. "Our History".
2. (April 1958). "Bramble's Acquire Share of CHEP Equipment".
3. (June 1958). "Bramble's Re-Organise to Take Over CHEP".
4. "Our History".
5. (13 May 2014). "The great wooden pallet wars". ABC.
6. Hodes, Jacob. "Whitewood under Siege". Cabinet Magazine.

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