This guide covers a wide variety of machinery including equipment for pallet manufacturing, pallet recycling, sawing, grinding, and other products and services.
Time for an Upgrade! Find the piece of equipment you need to boost production. We list suppliers, their websites, a brief description of one of their videos, and the link to the video.
To access videos, visit the online guide at www.palletenterprise.com/videoguide
Cutting Tools
Profile Technology
Profile Technology Inc. is a manufacturer and supplier of custom-designed and engineered cutting tools built for the primary and secondary wood industry. It provides cutting solutions for green and dried softwood and hardwood, frozen wood, and recycled wood.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uscDV66Sd8
Sharp Tool
Sharp Tool Co. manufactures and supplies cutting tools and saw blades for processing wood, including carbide products, saw blades, machinery, knives and many other products. It stocks a wide range of carbide products, circular saws, chipper knives, bits, shanks, grinding wheels and supplies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1xwvdrxoZI
Fasteners and Nailing Tools
Everwin Pneumatic Corp.
Everwin Pneumatic Corp. is a leading manufacturer of pneumatic nailing tools. The company offers a wide range of tools for assembling wood pallets and crates. Video illustrates some of the company’s nailing and stapling tools.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmJe8OszkDU
FASCO America
FASCO America is the North American distribution arm for tools, parts and fasteners manufactured by BECK, a company with over 115 years of experience in the industry. Video features SCRAIL fasteners, which are half-screw, half-nail. Fast, flexible, strong, and versatile, they can be used almost anywhere screws are used, and they are fastened with common pneumatic nailers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ4VpO5qa8c
Legacy Fasteners
Legacy Fasteners manufactures machine quality bulk nails and wire collated pallet nails. It distributes staples and pneumatic tools to support its fastener program.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrxGfTEe6qs
LINC Systems
LINC Systems supplies pneumatic tools, fasteners, industrial supplies and packaging products. Video illustrates the LINC Systems pallet printing system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl1Xg9_wzFE
Litnaglis
Litnaglis manufactures a wide range of fasteners, including bulk nails, wire collated nails (and high-load nails), and plastic strip and paper tape collated nails. Offers different types of shanks, cutting points, and finishes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCwgzW2f6ok
Metropolitan Staple
Metropolitan Staple supplies quality nailing and stapling equipment. Video shows demonstration of the Tech 670S coil pneumatic nailer at a pallet company in New Jersey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9NQiCW8mOg&t=10s
Universal Fastener Outsourcing
www.911-nails.com/AboutUFO.html
Universal Fastener Outsourcing is an OEM supply chain company that supplies pneumatic nailing tools and collated nailscrew fasteners and bulk screws. Video describes features, benefits, and applications of UFO Ballistic NailScrews.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZegsJj19g0
Grinders and Shredders
Boulware Equipment
Boulware Equipment specializes in turnkey pallet scrap grinding systems and dust collection systems. It is a dealer for new Cresswood grinders and also used and rebuilt grinders from other manufacturers. Video testimonial by Atlanta Pallets about purchase and installation of a rebuilt grinding system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOQ_5VBWd04
Cresswood Shredding Machinery
Cresswood manufactures grinding systems for wood material and pallets that include material handling, infeed and outfeed solutions, metal separation, and trailer/container loading. Video shows Cresswood Model HF-60LR low RPM wood shredder processing blocks, pallets, and a variety of materials.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFeNc7jJwI
Rotochopper
Rotochopper manufactures horizontal wood waste grinders and other equipment to produce biomass fuel, colored mulch, animal bedding, and other commodities. Video shows Multi-Stage Fine Grinding System, an integrated, end-to-end solution to efficiently produce short length wood fiber products.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLmQLzflnfs
Vecoplan Midwest
Vecoplan Midwest offers a full line of wood grinders, chippers, and pellet mills. Video illustrates the Vecoplan VPC 1600 pre-crusher for breaking down large bulky wood objects such as pallets, crates, or cable drums.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyAQdR7rHkg
Heat-Treating
EZ-Flo System
https://www.millwoodinc.com/Systems/EZ-Flo-Heat-Treat-System
EZ-Flo uses pressurized hot air treatment to inhibit mold growth and treat pallets for ISPM-15 certification. This system allows pallets to be treated inline and reduces total treatment cost.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOg92ZfvAHg
Nyle Dry Kilns
Nyle Dry Kilns is a leading manufacturer of lumber dry kilns as well as pallet heat-treating chambers. Video illustrates the L200 Pro unit with self-install aluminum chamber.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-5bV82Naf8
SII Dry Kilns
SII Dry Kilns specializes in hardwood and softwood dry kilns, pre-dryers, fan sheds, pallet and firewood drying and heat-treating chambers. Video illustrates construction of SII lumber kilns for Y&Y Hardwoods in Thomasville, North Carolina.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTriWOfkUk&t=9s
Material Handling Equipment
Automated Industrial Technologies
Video demonstrates the AIT HY400 Circular Saw Cutting 16' center cutting 2×6 boards.
Biomass Engineering & Equipment
www.biomassengineeringequipment.com
Biomass Engineering & Equipment provides complete custom solutions for biomass processing, conveying, storage, and receiving. Turn-key solutions for boilers and pellets. Video is an overview of the company’s services and shows some of its equipment and applications.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYlELOl-ulM
Sellick Equipment
Sellick Equipment manufactures forklifts, rough terrain forklifts, and truck-mounted forklifts, and it distributes JCB Teletruk telescopic forklifts. Video illustrates the Sellick STM industrial forklift.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmHRyEd_0gk
Pallet Assembly Systems
Bronco Pallet Systems
Bronco Pallet Systems manufactures block and stringer pallet assembly systems and pallet recycling and sorting systems, including inclined jigs to nail pallets manually as well as automated systems.
Midwest Machinery & Automation
Exclusive distributor of Woodpecker pallet nailing machines and the MASTer Recycler, which assembles pallets made of 100 percent recycled lumber. Vimeo site features videos of several different pallet nailing machines.
GBN Machine & Engineering Corporation
GBN manufactures block and stringer pallet nailing machines, pallet stackers, lumber stackers, and branders. Video demonstrates a GBN Excalibur stringer pallet nailing machine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Un1yrzHu_0&t=142s
Pallet Machinery Group
Pallet Machinery Group offers block and stringer pallet nailing systems, center split resaws, board stackers, and robotic and automation equipment. The LZ2000 Pallet Nailer can assemble upwards of 1,800 pallets per shift.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CVc764XUE
Rayco Industries
Rayco Industries manufactures a complete line of semi-automatic pallet nailing machines that use collated nails. Video explains the features of the Rayco Pallet Pro, the company’s flagship pallet nailing machine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpMnUh6MO50&t=41s
RT Pallet Equipment
RT Pallet Equipment manufactures pallet nailing jigs and machines and stackers, including custom sizes. Video demonstrates a machine nailing 5-stringer pallets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWO2-aojSH0&t=3s
STORTI
Storti SPA offers complete plants to process wood from logs to finished pallets and mats. It specializes in block and stringer pallet nailing machines. Video shows a Storti machine assembling block pallets.
Viking Engineering & Development
Viking Engineering manufactures automated pallet assembly systems and also supplies bulk nails. Video is a demonstration of the Viking Turbo 505 Silver Edition machine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjGoNkdoWA
Viper Industrial Products
www.viperindustrialproducts.com
Viper Industrial supplies pallet nailing machines, nailing tools, and coil nails and machine quality bulk nails. Video illustrates features of the Viper Woody nailing machine.
Pallet Recycling Equipment
Alliance Automation
Alliance Automation offers a complete line of pallet repair and sorting equipment and automated equipment for pallet dismantling and trimming and sorting recycled lumber. Video shows the Urban Sawmill system, which scans recycled boards for length, width and thickness, then optimizes and trims them to desired finished length.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZPvz8hQeg
Automated Machine Systems
www.automatedmachinesystems.com
Automated Machine Systems supplies automation to support pallet sorting, repairing, stacking, painting and stenciling, and washing.
www.automatedmachinesystems.com/virtualtour
Industrial Resources
Industrial Resources designs, builds, and installs pallet recycling and pallet building machinery. Video shows the Industrial Resources Infinity system, which can sort more than 800 pallets – block or stringer – per hour.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0YTKY9y_PY&t=37s
PRS Group
PRS manufactures a full line of pallet equipment, including stackers, dispensers, trim saws, dismantlers, and pallet recycling and repair machines. Video illustrates a PRS dual pallet repair line to increase production and reduce labor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Uwqc0rMuQ
RECONNX Inc.
RECONNX offers the Nail Kicker V20, a hand-held pneumatic denailer that can be used to drive nails through deck boards into stringers in order to remove boards or dismantle pallets.
The ReConnx Nail Kicker denailer, similar to a pneumatic nailing tool, effectively and efficiently drives nails through wood to remove them from the lumber. Video demonstrates the capabilities of the Nail Kicker.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLIBbkM4tV0
Smart Products
www.palletrecyclingequipment.com
Smart Products manufactures and supplies machines and systems for pallet recycling and lumber recovery, including pallet dismantlers and dismantling systems, pallet prep equipment, trim saws, notching machines, and more. Video shows dismantler system consisting of one-person dismantler integrated with conveyor and single-end power-feed trim saw for fast production of recycled boards.
www.palletrecyclingequipment.com/pallet-dismantlers/pallet-dismantler-system
Universal Machinery Sales
www.universalmachinerysales.net/index.html
Universal Machinery Sales offers machinery for repairing and recycling pallets and manufacturing pallet lumber and new pallets, including pallet disassemblers, stackers, trim saws, resaws, nailing machines, and much more. Video illustrates a Multi Trim Saw in operation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDw8IHozhc
Saws/Wood Processing Equipment
Baker Products
Baker Products manufactures a complete line of sawmill equipment to process logs into lumber, including complete systems, sawmills, edgers, band resaws, notchers, scragg mills, and more. Video illustrates two Baker band resaws, the single-cut PAQ model and the double-cut PAQ.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYd4BgCRE-Y
Brewco
Brewco supplies equipment for the pallet, grade lumber, crosstie, and barrel stave industries, including the Brewco Timberland Big Jake Scragg and Big Jake Auto Edger. Video shows the Big Jake Auto Edger in action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioGBC-42zVw
Brewer Machine and Parts
Brewer offers heavy-duty equipment for manufacturing grade lumber, pallet components, rail ties, and barrel staves. Video shows the Brewer VI double-head notching machine in action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QswP2LMDVtE
Cooper Machine
Cooper Machine manufactures sawmill equipment and scragg mills for producing grade lumber, pallet lumber, railroad ties, and barrel staves. Products include merchandising systems, slab recovery systems, edgers, trimmers, and more. Video shows detailed operation of Cooper overhead scragg with vertical edgers and slat table.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKsh3RlPGQ
Crosscut Solutions
Crosscut Solutions offers a wide range of up-cutting cut-off saws, both mechanical and pneumatic designs. They are used in many applications to cut material to length and to cut out defects. Video shows features of pneumatic cut-off saw.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpF-M7meYEg
Keystone Machinery
Keystone Machinery offers a wide range of machinery for the pallet and stake industries, including stake pointers, gang saws, band saws, rip saws, cut-off saws, material handling equipment, and more. Video shows test demonstration of a rip saw.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayx1AxfAbBQ
Go Fast Manufacturing
Go Fast Manufacturing offers wood processing machinery and equipment, including band resaws, chop saws, edgers, trim saws, grade saws, notchers, de-dusters, and more. Video shows the Go Fast 2NX double-head notching machine with waste conveyor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=81JWHT3rZVc
Pendu Manufacturing
Pendu Manufacturing produces standard and custom automated machinery for the pallet, sawmill, railway tie, log home, and other industries. Video demonstrates the Pendu 4700 B bottom-up stacker and other Pendu material handling equipment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPFcXAvI3pI
Pallet Machinery Group
Pallet Machinery Group offers center split resaw equipment and other sawmill machinery and represents the Storti and West Plains Resaw brands of sawmill equipment. Video shows the HY400 high-speed center-split resaw in action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7z-8zz63k8&t=77s
Sawmill Supplies & Equipment
Sawmill Supplies & Equipment manufactures Morgan low-profile band resaws and other machinery and equipment for the sawmill and pallet industries. Video shows the features of Morgan Band Tri-Scragg and demonstrates it in operation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZFlRswPQs4
Sering Sawmill Machinery
www.seringsawmillmachinery.com
Sering Sawmill Machinery provides sawmill machinery and equipment, including carriage drives and components and assemblies, log turners, log deck saws and lumber package saws. Video shows Sering 36 HD log turner in action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HONjYAxfkJ8&t=38s
Smith Sawmill Service
Smith Sawmill Service provides products and services for sawmills, chip mills, paper mills, and pallet manufacturers. It also offers the TurboSawmill line of portable sawmills. Video illustrates the TurboSawmill Warrior slabber.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlfxmyeatns
West Plains Resaw
West Plains Resaw Systems manufactures heavy-duty band resaws and material handling equipment for the grade lumber and pallet industries. Video shows 500 Series grade resaw in action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HV3G6CNd2Q
W.G. Benjey Inc.
W.G. Benjey designs and manufactures custom and standard equipment for wood processing and other industries, including gang saws, tenon cutters and tenon cutting heads, universal blade sharpeners, and more. Video shows operation of the Benjey log peeler.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y803JbmwVa4
Unit or Package Saws
Holtec
Holtec manufactures systems that are used to cut whole bunks of lumber to length with precision. Link is to Holtec website page with videos about different systems.
L-M Equipment Co. Ltd.-CANADA
L-M Equipment Co. (CANADA) is a leading manufacturer of package crosscut saw systems. Video shows features and performance of Model HMPC-7-24 traveling arch saw.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r94-noZCRnU&t=4s
Pacific Trail Manufacturing
Pacific Trail Manufacturing provides crosscut unit saws for cutting packages of lumber to length and deck saws for bucking logs to length. Video explains the features of Pacific Trail Accu-Cut, the company’s most sophisticated crosscut unit saw.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wir4xDLodY&t=3s
Saw Blades/Sales and Service
Freud America Inc.
Freud is a world leader in the production of woodworking and industrial tools, including saw blades. Video explains features of the new Fusion saw blade trio tooth design, which combines a special grind for the top, sides, and face of each tooth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnJX-jv_ocs
KASCO
KASCO manufactures premium thin kerf saw blades for pallet mills and sawmills. Video explains features of KASCO WoodMaxx bandsaw blades.
WIKUS Saw Technology Corp.
WIKUS manufactures high-quality band and circular saw blades for wood processing and other industries. Video explains features and benefits of WIKUS Marathon® M42 universal bimetal bandsaw blade for metal cutting applications.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sODKdyqw-fc
Wood-Mizer
www.woodmizer.com/us/Blades/SawmillBlades
Wood-Mizer is a leading wood processing equipment company, offering narrowband portable and industrial sawmill equipment, resaws, edgers, planer-moulders, pallet dismantlers, and bandsaw blades and blade maintenance equipment. Video shows features and performance of Wood-Mizer MR200 gang rip saw.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI5O5it16uY
Specialty Equipment, Products and Services
Air Burners
Air Burners offers air curtain incinerators to eliminate wood debris, including whole pallets, logs, and stumps without hauling or grinding. Video shows demonstration of an Air Burners FireBox burning scrap pallets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg_kNGOk2PM
Air-Flow Trailer Systems
Air-Flow Trailer Systems offers a system to modify trailer vans with vents and fans in order to air-dry pallets and prevent mold and mildew. Video explains the features and benefits of the company’s system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55Hko3TK7s
Biolube
Biolube manufactures the Lubie saw lubricating systems and Lubie lubricants. Video shows static display of industrial band resaw with the Lubie saw lubricating system with explanation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=00RMJJMh4is
Choice Machinery Group
Choice Machinery Group manufactures American-made machinery brands, including Ritter Machinery for woodworking and Evans Midwest Machinery. Video illustrates equipment that nails together dunnage and automatically stacks the finished pieces.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA7WzWuJHcE
FastMat Inc.
FastMat manufactures a machine to automate the process of drilling holes in timbers in order to fasten them together to make mats for cranes and other applications. Video shows the FastMat Crane Mat Drill in operation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn03kFNzi2E
Froedge Machine & Supply
Froedge manufactures pallet, sawmill and lumber handling equipment, including pallet board cleaners, treatment spray systems, infeed decks, tilt hoists, chain decks, unscramblers, grading stations, and more. Video shows a Froedge double-end trim saw in operation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7caEqNE9OY
HUB Industrial Supply
HUB Industrial Supply offers pallet dismantling blades and other parts and supplies for the pallet industry, including belts, bearings, and fuses. Video explains features and benefits of the Nail Shredder reciprocating saw blades.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3xTlUZNbLA
Iron Bull Mfg.
Iron Bull Manufacturing makes a full line of scrap hoppers for any type of application. Video shows various applications and operation of Iron Bull self-dumping hopper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFMi-671pS4
ISK Biocides
ISK Biocides offers a full line of mold control products for wood pallets. Video shows dipping lumber in the ISK Biocides NeXgen® product to brighten wood while providing control of sapstain and mold fungi.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vQ34Cw6u3c
J&J Machinery
J&J Machinery specializes in upgrading pallet nailing machines with modern operating systems and offers proven hardware and software for any machine. Video shows a nailing machine retrofitted to assemble pallets made of new and used lumber and equipped with the J&J machinery Smart Turner.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryLKy7OVIkM
Litco International
Litco specializes in molded wood pallets, core plugs, and extruded blocks. All products have high impact resistance and meet ISPM-15 requirements. Video explains manufacturing process of the company’s engineered extruded wood blocks, which are used in block pallets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIaKSSB5aA
MyInkADo
MyInkado.com offers high quality custom printed apparel and other products to promote your business. Video is an overview of the company’s services and web-based platform for designing t-shirts and other items.
www.myinkado.com/img/myInkado.mp4
Newman Machine Company Inc.
Newman Machine offers machines for the pallet, sawmill, lumber, and furniture industries, including multiple trimmers, knife grinders, shaving machines, dimension mill planers, rough mill planers, and more. Video shows the Newman KM-16 multiple-trim saw cutting boards to length.
PalMate Group
The PalMate Group offers the PalMate® suite of enterprise resource planning computer software solutions for sawmills and pallet companies to help them manage a wide range of business functions. Video explains features and benefits of PalMate ERP.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYCJQH4ebk
Pallet Connect
Pallet Connect offers cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) management software for the pallet industry to help manage and connect customers, vendors, warehouse and financials in real time while simplifying workflow. Video is an overview of the Pallet Connect system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryhGohVinIM
Recycling Equipment Inc.
Recycling Equipment Inc. engineers, designs, manufactures, and supports a series of ‘dump and run’ low RPM rotary industrial grinders. Video shows the Renegade shredder in action grinding whole scrap pallets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRSTMxa67ug&t=263s
Simpson Strong-Tie
Simpson Strong-Tie offers a wide range of collated and hand-driven lag-replacement screws for assembling pallets and crates. Video is an overview of Simpson Strong-Tie product offerings.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WxWkA6vlRU
Timber Products Inspection
Timber Products Inspection is a leader in wood packaging material quality assessment and export treatment certification. Video is an overview of services offered by Timber Products Inspection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqddJag291w
White & Company
White & Company is a consulting and software development company specializing in optimizing pallet and unit load design. Link is to the company’s homepage, which contains video illustrating its Best Pallet program for designing wood pallets.
