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CHEP?s RFID Lessons - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsFebruary, 2, 2004
Over the past five years, CHEP, the world’s largest pallet and container leasing company, has spent nearly $20 million in resources to get ready for the day customers started asking for RFID-enabled pallets. The leasing giant claims to have the...
Smart Pallets–RFID Journal Interview - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsFebruary, 2, 2004
The entire retail supply chain industry is buzzing over radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and its potential to reduce costs. Wal-Mart, the country’s largest retailer, and the U.S. Department of Defense have both announced aggressive plans to use RFID to...
Pallet Consultants Corp. Quickly Establishes National... - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsFebruary, 2, 2004
POMPANO BEACH, Florida — Name it, and Pallet Consultants Corp. probably does it, or soon will. The list includes pallet banking, pallet manufacturing, pallet recycling, pallet retrieval and pallet sorting, pallet repair, storing and shipping pallets, pallet brokering, and...
Va. Tech Prof Heads Forest Products... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Design/Engineering ResearchJanuary, 5, 2004
Virginia Tech professor Paul Winistorfer has been elected president of the Forest Products Society. Paul, chairman of the Virginia Tech department of wood science and forest products, has held a number of different positions in the society since becoming a...
Rotochopper Adds Service Rep for East - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Equipment, Products & ServicesJanuary, 5, 2004
Rotochopper has appointed Ron Hamilton as its new East Coast service representative, which allows the company to expand and improve service to East Coast customers. Ron has more than 25 years of experience in machinery for grinding, shredding and...
Trace Offers New Bandsaw Dismantler - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Equipment, Products & ServicesJanuary, 5, 2004
Trace Equipment Corp. is offering a new bandsaw dismantler for pallet recyclers. The Run-A-Gade bandsaw, designed for one-man operation, features 30-inch rubber wheels and runs a 25-foot, 4-inch blade. The Run-A-Gade bandsaw has a large table to accommodate pallets...
ICE Offers New Carbide Tooling - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Equipment, Products & ServicesJanuary, 5, 2004
International Carbide & Engineering (ICE) has developed a new type of carbide for saw tips, saw blades and indexable notcher inserts. The company has improved its original Ni-Matrix carbide and calls its new version the Ni-Matrix II™. Tooling made...
Happy New Year with a Bang! - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > General AdviceJanuary, 5, 2004
New Years is a time for ringing out the old and ringing in the new — a time for reflection into the past to gain a perspective on the future. It is a time for fire works and excitement. ...
Richmond Expo Heads Forest Products Industry... - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsJanuary, 5, 2004
A number of forest products industry trade shows and machinery expositions are scheduled for 2004. The leading trade show for the pallet industry in 2004 will be the East Coast Sawmill & Logging Equipment Exposition in Richmond, Va.,...
The Timbermen Emphasizes Notching, 4-Stringer Pallets - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > New Pallet ManufacturingJanuary, 5, 2004
CAMAK, Georgia — Jim Hicks Sr. started The Timbermen Inc. in 1972. “He had been a professional forester for a number of years,” explained Jim Hicks Jr., son of the company founder. Jim, who joined his father’s company in...
