Innovative Data Systems has moved its headquarters into a larger space to better serve its customers. This new state-of-the-art office will accommodate two more programmers.                 Industry members should be aware of the improvements that Alan Miceli has made...

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                West Salem Machinery (WSM) is announing the development of a new screening design – the WSM Waterfall™ Disc Screen. This machine delivers high capacity “fines” screening, and improves screening efficiency due to increased material agitation.                 WSM’s Waterfall Disc...

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                The National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA) will hold its biennial recyclers conference on October 28-30 in Chicago, Ill. Due to the event’s popularity last year, the NWPCA has decided to hold one again this year and switch...

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                After 12 years the global wooden pallet and packaging industry assembles again in Bordeaux, France for Interpal VIII, the world timber pallet and packaging congress. The theme will be “Creating worldwide objectives for the wooden pallet and packaging industry.”...

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                The  VAZ 1600, one of Vecoplan’s new generation of shredders, incorporates a wide range of innovations that improve performance, increase durability and decrease maintenance time. These features and options include: direct drives, double sidewalls, reversible counter knives, hydraulic swing-up...

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Ed,                 Just a brief note regarding your recent editorial about trusting our government. We have trade associations to take our major concerns to the Feds. The situation on the local level should be much the same if citizens band...

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Bill Lovvorn is the president of Lovvorn Wholesale Lumber, a remanufacturing facility with pallet and skid capabilities.   PALLET ENTERPRISE: What is the hardest challenge your company faces right now? Lovvorn: Maintaining our accounts in the face of ever changing...

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                Owners of a pallet manufacturing or recycling operation today are finding it very challenging to secure installment loans from their commercial banks. Even though interest rates are at historical lows, this does not necessarily make it easier to get...

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                Raw material shortages are the pits. Everything about a raw material shortage isn’t quite what it appears to be. Don’t read me wrong; 99% of it is everything that we see. It’s the other 3% that you can’t trust....

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                The trucking industry will feel some small impacts from two recent federal court decisions.                 In its long-awaited ruling on American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) challenge to the most recent revisions in the hours-of-service (HOS) rules, the U.S. Court of...

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