400x600

Lite Box containers on the 400×600 footprint — a quarter of a Euro pallet deck.

Four of these tessellate onto one 800×1200 pallet exactly, which is what makes the size useful rather than merely small. A consignment travels as one pallet and breaks down into four independently handled units at the far end.

At this size the limiting factor is almost never the box. It is what one person can lift. A 400×600 box filled with a dense product reaches an unsafe manual handling weight well before it is full, so the sensible fill level is set by the people lifting it, not by the container’s rating.

That makes the size right for small components, retail-ready quantities and line-side supply, and wrong for bulk material, where a larger box moved by truck is both cheaper and safer.

The other thing the quarter-Euro footprint does is shorten the picking walk. Four small units on a shelf face present four product lines in the space one Euro pallet would occupy with one, so a picker covers less ground per order line. Where order profiles are many lines of few items, that geometry is worth more than the container itself costs.