Pendu Manufacturing Inc. has acquired the rights to manufacture and distribute the Cornell Industrial line of sawmill equipment. The companies, both based in Pennsylvania, announced plans for the acquisition in 2004.                  ...

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Smetco has introduced a new, low-cost attachment kit that converts a bandsaw pallet dismantling machine into a resaw for remanufacturing cants into boards.                       The Smetco resaw attachment kit will...

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Plenty of jokes and tales – ‘tall’ tales and otherwise – abound about how ‘big’ things are in Texas.                       Bob Hixson made the point again. Bob, who hails from...

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                      In Michigan, a man sees a business opportunity amidst ash trees that have become infected by the emerald ash borer. With the aid of a portable sawmill, he travels...

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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada — What is Interpal VI? It is not about a quick fix to understand the global marketplace for wooden pallets. Rather it is to understand if qualified wooden pallet companies of the world can understand and...

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When I started working with the pallet industry in 1977, pallet companies mostly functioned in their local markets. The concept of the pallet industry functioning in a global market wasn’t even close to being on the radar screen. That was...

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BIGLERVILLE, Pennsylvania — Quality demands a fair price. That summarizes the business philosophy of (Henry) Michael Taylor, vice president of Mt. Valley Farms & Lumber Products Inc.(MVF), a vertically-integrated, multi-faceted company with roots in land developing and branches in trucking...

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JUAREZ, Mexico – Companies that do business across the U.S.-Canadian border know how the vagaries of the currency exchange rate can impact business. In recent years the American dollar has depreciated relative to Canadian currency – a U.S. dollar buys...

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As if the competitive nature of the pallet industry is not enough, recyclers over the last couple of years have had to deal with a whole new threat to their business –   cargo theft. Across the country, recyclers have...

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Mississauga, Ontario — About two years ago, Weston Forest Products Corp. took pause from its rapid sales growth trajectory to address an increasingly urgent need. The company was looking for additional capacity to produce cut-to-length lumber. It also wanted greater...

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