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PalletsMarch, 1, 2007
Missouri Trade Show Moves to May in 2007 The Midwest Forest Industry Show, a leading trade show for the pallet and sawmill industries, is moving its show date month in 2007. The biennial trade show also is...
Thinking Ahead?Letter from Chaille: Lost or... - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsMarch, 1, 2007
The pallet industry is full of crooks. Or at least that must be what the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) thinks. Suddenly aware of many postal pallets outside of its possession, the USPS is talking about breaking...
Sawmill & Treating Insights: Upgrading for... - Pallet Enterprise
Sawmills > Lumber MarketMarch, 1, 2007
When it comes to making capital improvements to an operation, should you focus on adding equipment that will increase production or equipment that will increase grade yield? As with most ideas in the lumber business, it depends! ...
Forklift Safety — Be Safe: Buckle... - Pallet Enterprise
Unit Load > Safety/OSHAMarch, 1, 2007
When I was a boy in the 1970s, I never worried much about seatbelts or what might happen if I didn’t wear one. When I became a teenager in the 1980s, it was still not a...
Mayfair Lumber Expands Remanufacturing Operations: Company... - Pallet Enterprise
Sawmills > Sawmill Case Studies: RemanufacturingMarch, 1, 2007
CALGARY, Alberta — Mayfair Lumber first considered purchasing a cross-cut package saw several years ago, but the timing wasn’t quite right. “The company looked into it a few years ago,” explained Jeff Chase, who is responsible for remanufactured...
Software Drives Smarter Sawmills & Lumber... - Pallet Enterprise
Sawmills > Equipment, Products & ServicesMarch, 1, 2007
Part 1 The first of a two-part series on software solutions for lumber companies. Look for the second half in a future issue. Managing a sawmill or lumber operation used to be something done just by human...
SPEC Wood & Marketing Solutions?Keeping Pallet... - Pallet Enterprise
Sawmills > Sawmill Case Studies: HardwoodMarch, 1, 2007
Quebec City, Canada Anybody who has had the pleasure of visiting Quebec City knows what a beautiful city it is. As you head north from this unique city, you slip into a more sparsely settled territory and into...
Lone Star Survivor: Ups & Downs... - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsMarch, 1, 2007
Edgar Lozano’s life could be turned into a movie. As the owner of Atlas Pallet in San Antonio, Texas, he’s seen up and downs in the industry and his personal life. Edgar is a survivor who was the...
Upgrades at Wolverine Hardwoods Put Company... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Pallet LumberMarch, 1, 2007
ALLEGAN, Michigan — Javan Mallery likes to keep in mind some words of wisdom he received from his father: “find a need and meet it.” Javan has been in the forest products industry all his life. He and...
Non-Wood Pallets Make Good Showing At... - Pallet Enterprise
Unit Load > Trade ShowsMarch, 1, 2007
CHICAGO — This year’s ProMat material handling trade show featured 300,000 square feet of exhibits and 700 suppliers showing off the latest and the greatest product in the materials handling world. From a pallet perspective, the show typically...
