What if you could turn agriculture waste into usable pallets that have some of the key benefits of plastic pallets without the cost of molds and the ability to easily make custom sizes? What if you could do this at...
Industry Auctioneer, Kimbel Passes Away Known to many who have bought and sold equipment in the forest products industry, John Chandler Kimbel Jr., 63, of Kingston, Tennessee passed away Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, at Parkwest Medical Center in Knoxville. Kimbel...
What if you could turn agriculture waste into usable pallets that have some of the key benefits of plastic pallets without the cost of molds and the ability to easily make custom sizes? What if you could do this at...
Pallet Enterprise: What is the best piece of business advice you have ever received? Leitzel: My father had a small business while I was growing up. I watched him do the best he could to make a good product, deliver...
Most of us recognize that safety meetings are important as well as necessary, but are they always effective? Possibly not if you have not stopped to consider that not all people learn information the same way or at the same...
Universal Fastener Outsourcing (UFO) is celebrating its 16th-year anniversary this month, and its 12th year of manufacturing the revolutionary Ballistic NailScrew®. UFO offers 80 skews of products made to the highest grade possible and sold by 50 distributors nationwide. “We’re...
The emergence of profitable markets for woody biomass continues to be a topic of interest to operators in the wood products industry. Here are some of the emerging technologies that may or may not play a hand in shaping tomorrow’s...
Fans of Facebook – and there are more than 1.7 billion of them – now have a near mirror-image of the social network they can use for their pallet-making business. Dubbed ‘Workplace by Facebook,’ the new app offers all the...
When a pallet company is considering investing in a nailing machine, what are some of the top questions it should consider? To seek insight from those who know nailing machines best, we asked representatives of several suppliers that manufacture or...
Niles, MICHIGAN – Simpler can be better when it comes to making and repairing pallets. That is what Jeff Hill learned as the manager of the Niles plant for Kamps Pallets. A few years ago the location was facing financial...