When you are getting ready to fly on vacation, it is comforting to know that your pilot is well trained. He has had many hundreds — if not thousands — of hours of training, and the person who trained him...

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Pallet Chief Nailers Have New Features Pallet Chief has made a number of improvements recently to its nailing machines. These new features include a board hold-down, floating gantry, lead board flusher, and anti-jamming switches on new Pallet Chief 3 and...

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(Editor’s Note: In his regular column, Alan Froome continues his discussion of sawmill ideas and methods and how they evolved, along with a review of some recent developments in technology. This series of columns is intended to be a generic...

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My father recently attended a meeting and rally sponsored by Potomac Supply Corp., a major pallet and treated lumber operation in Kinsale, Va. One of the hot topics driven home at the event was the loss of American manufacturing jobs...

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(Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series of articles on lean manufacturing; part one was published in the November issue.) In the previous article we explored the topic of lean manufacturing or ‘doing more with less.’ Brian...

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Temp-Air offers the pallet industry a variety of options for heat treating wood packaging materials, making it easier and more cost effective to adhere to standards passed by the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). With the Temp-Air system, any enclosed...

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All it takes is a trip to PECO Pallet’s headquarters to see the difference between it and CHEP, the other major pallet rental company serving the U.S. market. PECO operates out of a converted warehouse building in Yonkers, N.Y. CHEP...

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In North America, we often think of Germany, the world’s largest manufacturer of the EPAL or Europallet, as a country dominated by that competitively priced pallet. Indeed, Germany is known for high volume pallet manufacturing plants that produce as many...

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The pallet industry has taken great strides in adopting and leveraging information technology in recent years. The deployment of technology has been driven by the current business environment as well as the inherent empowering and enabling characteristics of computers and...

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Crate Generator, a software program for designing wooden crates and containers, was first introduced in the 1980s. In the 1990s, a later version was named Easy Crate. Earlier versions of the programs were limited to designing only a few styles...

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