SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio Buckeye Diamond Logistics has taken a progressive approach to supplying and servicing businesses that use pallets. By expanding its products and services beyond merely pallets, the company has positioned itself as a full service provider of shipping...

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While at a recent trade show, I met a man who told me that over the last couple of years his Web site had become a major source of sales leads. This company makes cedar fencing and has acquired new...

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L-M Equipment Co. Ltd. (Canada) has developed a new heavy duty, high speed trim saw. It can cut cants up to 6×12.            The new L-M Equipment trim saw is air-operated by a foot pedal for fast cycle times. It runs...

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Low-grade hardwood prices reached record high levels this year about the time that low-grade softwood prices skyrocketed to levels never before approached, particularly in the West. Prices for low-grade material are spiking at a time when pallet buyers are indoctrinated...

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The harsh reality of todays business environment is that many companies are forced to shut down even though they have a solid customer base and years of positive growth. Some companies simply run out of money to pay bills. Cash...

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One of the pet peeves of many trucking companies is the trials and tribulations of pallet exchange. When pallet exchange expectations are not mutually understood and agreed to by shipper and receiver, the carrier can end up paying for pallet...

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CHICAGO — Just down the street from the old Union Stockyards on 43rd Street in the south side of Chicago, you will find Cardinal Pallet Co.            Thomas Murrihy Sr. and his brother, John, entered the pallet business in 1972. Tom...

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Hardwood Pallet Market Summer has come and gone, and the pallet industry is still struggling with less than adequate supplies of low-grade hardwood. Weather has been a major factor throughout the lumber crunch. Just when it seems the weather will...

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SPOKANE, Washington — Where there is adversity, there also may be opportunity.            That was the experience of Ron Johnson, a veteran production manager of a Agilent Technologies (formerly Hewlett Packard) manufacturing plant in Spokane, Washington.            When the electronics company relocated...

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HAMBURG, New York — A paternal nudge got William K. Heussler, owner of H&H Wood Products, into the forest wood products industry.            Id been out of college for a year, said William, recalling how he got hooked into the industry...

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