Pallet Enterprise: How do you think the pallet industry will change in the next 5-10 years? Keegan:  I think we all are trying to become the same person. The new pallet companies will offer used pallets; the used pallet companies...

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Wisconsin-based Go Fast Manufacturing now offers a machine for wrapping firewood into bundles for retail sale. The company sold a prototype machine made for a customer about 18 months ago and earlier this year manufactured its first batch of machines...

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Completing its investigations into Canadian softwood lumber imports, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) recently found in favor of domestic producers. The DOC made affirmative determinations of illegal trade practices by Canadian producers in both the antidumping duty (AD) and...

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When you think about social media, do you envision Millennials or hipsters wasting time on Facebook? Is it hard for you to imagine that social media provides any real value to your pallet business at all? Caution and skepticism are...

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Value density. It can limit or expand your effective market reach. Low value density means the cost of logistics as a proportion of total product cost is high, and shipping further afield can quickly suck the profit out of a...

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As labor woes and production demands make automation more and more important, you may be in the market for new equipment in 2018. As you begin to evaluate your operations and consider what type of machine to add, there are...

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In case you hadn’t noticed, Millennials now make up the largest share of the U.S. workforce. They overtook Generation X two years ago. Millennials, people ages 20-36 (18-34 in 2015), now make up more than one in three members of...

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Just as we experience spring, summer, fall and winter each year, there are a similar number of cycles for entrepreneurs. It’s extremely important to understand into which cycle you presently fit, because it determines how you approach growth, helps pinpoint...

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Vision casting can be a powerful approach for aligning people and processes within a business. A powerful vision guides employees toward a common aspiration. For smaller companies, the vision may often be informal, communicated through the words and actions of...

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Psychological testing or evaluation tools have been used since the mid-1900s for evaluating potential employees. In fact, there is an entire branch of psychology that is focused on work-related issues — industrial and organizational psychology. Psychological tests were used to...

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