Pallet Enterprise: What is the best piece of business advice you have ever received? Montey: The best piece of business advice I’ve received is to be honest. If you make it a practice to lie, then you have to work...

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Hurricane season has gotten off to a slow start this year, but the 11 year-long “hurricane drought” recently ended as Hermine blew through Florida and up into Georgia. Experts say that the drought was unusually long, and it was mere...

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A major legal and business battle between Northwest Pallet and PECO Pallets continues to suffer delay after delay. Jim Riff of Northwest Pallet claims that PECO is trying all sorts of stall tactics to delay the proceedings. And in a...

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Hand-operated power tools have increased productivity ever since their invention. Hand saws, staple guns and hammers have been made nearly obsolete in most industries. The pallet industry uses a lot of hand tools, especially nail guns and sawzalls. These tools...

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A variety of forces are at work to shape local pallet markets around the world. Here are insights from a number of industry insiders in Argentina, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.   United Kingdom John Dye, president Timber...

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Data has always been important. “You can’t manage what you  can’t measure,” my first boss told me long ago. At that time, data consisted of what I wrote down on my clipboard – linear footage readings, tally information and labor...

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China’s restrictions on cargo shipments from the United States to try to prevent the spread of the Zika virus were updated Sept. 7th to only apply to vessels leaving Florida. Initially, the restrictions were placed on shipments from anywhere in...

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One of the biggest threats to your business could be sitting in your email inbox or on a website you are about to visit. And you might not even know it. Cyber threats are everywhere, and criminals and hackers are...

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FASCO America is now offering its versatile SCRAIL® with a new coarse thread design and a new innovative collation method. SCRAIL combines all the best features of a screw and nail into one fastener, that can be used pretty much...

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James Ruder, president of L&R Pallet in Denver, Colorado knew he faced a huge problem. His company had hit a ceiling – finding and keeping labor seemed almost impossible. Growth and profits were getting harder to come by as he...

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