Timber Processing Magazine named Bill Carden of Potomac Supply as its Man of the Year, the 20th year they have presented this award. The Enterprise wants to thank this magazine for its choice. Bill has long been a...

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    Looking to crack down on businesses that don’t play by the rules, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has targeted industries that tend to be magnets for the underground economy, including pallets. Earlier this month investigators for California’s Economic Employment...

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    The idea for this month’s column came from ideas that culminated from about four or five phone conversations.     One of the business buzz-words from the late 1990s that is still in play today is ‘lean.’ Businesses...

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    Bad news on the immigration front continues for IFCO Systems North America, the country’s largest pallet recycler. Five managers were recently indicted for conspiring to harbor and transport illegal immigrants from 2004 to 2006. The latest indictments came...

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    I would like to follow up an earlier column with some results for a re-cently completed study of hardwood curve sawing. If you consider that approximately one-third of hardwood saw logs have a significant amount of sweep and...

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    The East Coast Sawmill and Logging Equipment Exposition will be held May 16-17 in Richmond, Va.     The biennial trade show, sponsored by the Virginia Forest Products Association and the Virginia Tech Extension Service, will feature exhibits...

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    Treating pallets for export applications is another way that pallet suppliers can add value to their products and profits to their business.     Treating processes for lumber and pallets have come to the forefront in recent years...

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TUCSON, Arizona — Lester Weinman, president of Caseworks Crating and Shipping, runs an unusual business. His company builds custom crates ranging from small containers to ones that are big enough to ship a 57-foot-long airplane wing and anything in between...

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ROTORUA, New Zealand — A bus load of visitors from the United States, Canada, Spain, and Portugal visited Red Stag Timber in Rotorua, New Zealand in March of 2007. Gordon Hughes, executive general manager of the Canadian Wood Pallet and...

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    From new competitors to regulatory changes and shifting customer demands, the pallet industry faces an unprecedented level of both opportunities and challenges. Smart companies will take advantage of them. Others will be rolled over by them or even...

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