As 2011 comes to a close, questions about President Obama’s highly publicized Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act linger for many small businesses still reeling from the nation’s worst economic crisis in decades. Companies large and small are struggling to...
Neopal Turns to Brewco for Sawing Innovations In 2005 after six years of being an innovative pallet manufacturer in the Houston, Texas area, Neopal had outgrown its manufacturing facility....
It is hard for me to believe that it has been thirty years since I published our first Pallet Enterprise issue at the end of 1981. Probably the most...
Cresswood Shredding Machinery in Cortland, Ill., is introducing its new “Destroyer-Max” Drive System for its Destroyer line of single-shaft, low-rpm grinders. “Wood pallet manufacturing and recycling operations are increasingly...
Millwood Inc. (www.millwoodinc.com), which specializes in transport packaging solutions, recently hired Ralph Rupert, the former director of the Virginia Tech Center for Unit Load Design (Center). Rupert joins Millwood...
Looking to solve one of its core operational challenges, Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) has named Richard “Dick” DiStasio as the company’s CEO after a lengthy search to replace...
The National Labor Relations Board (the NLRB) has issued a Final Rule that will require employers to notify employees of their rights to collective bargaining under the National Labor...
One of the major pallet rental companies in Europe, La Palette Rouge (LPR), based in Toulouse France, was recently sold to Euro Pool System International by its previous owner,...
The federal government has finally come out and admitted what people in the forest products industry have known for a long time – using wood is good for the...