Euro stackable plastic boxes are suitable for nearly all manufacturing and service industries. They are ideal for many food preparation and pharmaceutical products because they have smooth sides and are very easy indeed to clean. Since they are made of plastic, no microbes or bacteria can get into the surface. Non-food manufacturers will often use the larger stackable plastic boxes for products, while the smaller ones are used for small parts and fixings.

Service sector uses include outside catering, engineering service kits, police scene of crime use, hospital sterile services, food delivery to takeaways, greengrocery displays, and many more uses. Euro size containers are available with solid sides or ventilated sides, the ventilated ones often being chosen because it is easy to see what is inside each box. Furthermore, when used for food storage in refrigerators or freezers, they allow the cold air to distribute evenly throughout the container and the contents to chill down to the desired temperature faster.

Since these stackable plastic boxes are Euro size, they fit exactly on to both Euro pallets and UK pallets, so the 600mm x 400mm boxes stack in four columns on the standard 1200mm x 800mm Euro pallets and five on the UK pallets which are 1200mm x 1000 mm. You can also get half size boxes of 400mm x 300mm, quarter size of 300mm x 200mm, and double size boxes of 800mm x 600mm.

These containers are available in a range of different colours which is another method of identifying the contents, and they can also have different coloured coding clips which snap on to them for the same purpose. In addition, the containers can have a range of different inserts which fit into them for a variety of different purposes. For example, in the outside catering sector there are many different sizes of glasses which are used, and they can also be of different heights. Inserts can be chosen so that they exactly fit a particular size of glass which prevents them from rattling around and getting broken during transport, and some manufacturers have a way of extending the height of the containers so that they can be adjusted vertically as well.