Wood stitching machines from Fastening Technologies Company are capable of assembling from 600 to 800 pallet mats or tops per hour. Fastening Technologies Company’s patented wire feed and stitching units provide superior holding power using its alpha fastener with divergent...
Empire Manufacturing, which supplies lubricants and similar products for wood cutting tools and other tools, has issued a new brochure with details of its product line. Empire lubricants are made for circular and band saw blades, router bits and other...
The Current River Mfg. Inc. StackMaster can stack 3,600 boards per hour, and the model 2 for high-speed production can stack 6,800 boards per hour. It will stack boards 36 inches to 60 inches long and from 3/8-inch to 4...
The Mayfran International FastPac™ Briquetter transforms wood fiber and other materials into dense, compact, recyclable briquettes that are more valuable and easier to handle. The FastPac can use paper and corrugated, dust and sludge from filters, wood and sawdust, fibers,...
Trace Equipment Corp. has begun marketing an in-line corner rounder machine. It is designed to accept pallets or other wood frames in a production line and to automatically round off all four corners at the same time before moving the...
Rotochopper, which manufactures machines that grind scrap wood and pallets into mulch and color it in one pass, has developed portable equipment to package mulch into bags. The Rotochopper Go-Bagger is 26 feet long and can be towed by a...
Profile Technology, a manufacturer and supplier of cutting tools for the pallet industry, has developed a mascot for use in its marketing and advertising programs. The cartoon-like character is NIBS™, whose name is derived from the company’s NAILBUSTER ® brand...
In June, Hays Container Services quietly began renting its reusable plastic containers (RPCs) to California grape growers, thus heralding its entry into the group of RPC companies accepted at retail giant Wal-Mart. And while it joined the ranks of Chep,...
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University’s annual returnable packaging seminar took a spin back to its automotive roots. The seminar by the university’s School of Packaging was started several years ago at the request of General Motors. At that...
The Pallet Design System (PDS) is a computer design program developed by Virginia Tech, the National Wooden Pallet & Container Association, and the U.S. Forest Service to quickly and accurately predict the performance of new wood pallets. PDS has been...