Accidents happen in the workplace. They happen despite exacting precautions. That’s reality.     The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) expects businesses to strive for safety, even as they plan for mishaps. If a workplace accident...

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    Looking to cut cost, reduce waste and save the environment at the same time, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has unveiled its sustainability and packaging reduction initiatives. These programs could have significant impacts on all packaging used by Wal-Mart and...

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    The March 2007 issue explored the idea of using enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions to improve sawmill and lumber operations. That article reviewed a number of leading suppliers as well as introduced the major concepts and reasons...

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FRANKFORT, Indiana — When the time came for Coomer & Sons Sawmill to buy a second sawmill for its pallet operation, the Coomers looked around and found a sawmill manufacturer 40 miles away: Wood-Mizer Products and its affiliated industrial division,...

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Eagle Machinery Develops New Lumber Infeed System     Eagle Machinery & Supply has developed a new type of lumber infeed system.     The new rake feeder is more compact and efficient than a conventional descrambler infeed system, according...

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    Little pests are becoming a big deal. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimated that the emerald ash borer (EAB) will cost the state about $3 billion over the next 10 years. And that’s just one of the...

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    Pallets are exposed to an exceptional variety of external forces. Researchers at Virginia Tech’s Center for Unit Load Design and elsewhere have studied to some extent how these forces are distributed over a pallet and within the individual...

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Recycled Pallet Market     Pallet demand has tapered off from the strong demand of the first half of 2006 – in both the new and recycled pallet markets.     Recycled pallet demand has been mixed. Most markets are...

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    Wooden shop skids date back to the late 1800s and wooden pallets to the early decades of the 20th Century. However, the intense logistics efforts of the U.S. military in World War II were pivotal to achieve critical...

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    When two forest products companies had different wood handling needs, they both turned to the same wood products machinery manufacturer. That supplier — Samuel Kent Baker Inc. — developed custom wood handling solutions that solved problems for both...

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