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Concept Products Offers New Portable Grinder - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Equipment, Products & ServicesNovember, 3, 2003
Concept Products has introduced its Shred-All 5600 wood series portable grinder. The new machine, with a horizontal infeed, can produce mulch that is ready to color in one pass. Variable screen sizes are available. The Shred-All 5600 is...
Smart Introduces Single Head Notcher - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Equipment, Products & ServicesNovember, 3, 2003
Smart Products has developed a new, single head notching machine. The Smart Products Single Head Notcher can be used for new or recycled stringers and will produce 750 double notched stringers per hour with one operator, according to the company....
New Pendu Notcher Design Lowers Price - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Equipment, Products & ServicesNovember, 3, 2003
The Pendu Manufacturing 6700-P Stringer Notcher features a simpler, redesigned frame that reduced the manufacturing cost and has enabled Pendu to price the machine substantially less. The cutting tools for the Pendu 6700-P Stringer Notcher are positioned overhead, allowing...
Where?s the Beef? - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Pallet MarketNovember, 3, 2003
One of my favorite commercials of all times was the Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?” In our industry an appropriate parallel would be “Where’s the wood?” More precisely it might be “Where’s the hardwood?” Since 1977, when Industrial Reporting started...
Analyst Projects ?Nice? Growth for Plastic... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Alternative Materials (Plastic, Corrugated, etc.)November, 3, 2003
When an East Coast consultant phoned me last month, looking for information about the plastic pallet market, the first thing I did was refer him to Dr. Peter Mooney. Peter, an independent economist and veteran plastics industry analyst, recently finished...
Widespread Optimism at Midwest Show - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsNovember, 3, 2003
It is no secret that the U.S. economy has been in a slump. The forest products industry, especially the pallet community, has felt the full brunt of the sluggish economy for three years. Machinery shows and expos have produced mixed...
Bonds an Attractive Source of Funds... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > General AdviceNovember, 3, 2003
Pallet companies looking to expand their operations may want to consider various types of bonds that may be authorized by their local and state governments to finance capital improvement projects. Bonds may be very attractive because of interest rates...
The Wood Energy Opportunity - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Equipment, Products & ServicesNovember, 3, 2003
Wood residue is available in many states that can be used to produce heat for less than 50% of the cost of heat produced by oil and gas. A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory report concluded that, on average,...
Trade Group Stresses Four Work Habits... - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsNovember, 3, 2003
Power nailing tools have been used in the pallet industry for quite some time for both pallet manufacturing and pallet recycling operations. As they are used in related industries and by homeowners for construction purposes, power nailing tools have...
N. Carolina Manufacturer Moves Ahead with... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > New Pallet ManufacturingNovember, 3, 2003
OXFORD, North Carolina – When Glenn Watkins went looking for a nailing machine to build block pallets, he basically went no further than G. Wine Sales. Glenn’s business, Granville Pallet Company, has been operating a Storti Flex 2600 nailing...
