If you are like many small business owners or managers, you often think about things you could do to help your company grow. But have you ever thought about things you could stop doing?                 There are many things...

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                Removing or disabling safety guards may seem like no big deal. But one pallet manufacturer in Ohio discovered the dangers associated with this action earlier this summer. A teenage employee lost his hand when it got caught in a...

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                To help customers capitalize on grow-ing opportunities in recycling markets, Rotochopper is launching a new line of industrial slow-speed shredders. The first model in this new line, the HTS-2, made its debut at Waste Expo in Las Vegas. The...

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                If you heard about a recent Supreme Court case involving Obamacare, then you may be wondering what, if anything, has changed and how you are affected. So let’s take a look at what happened with the Supreme Court ruling...

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                A recent $1.2 million expansion allows Litco International Inc. to now offer a complete line of molded wood plug sizes. The company is currently seeking qualified distributors to help market the products.                 Inca core plugs are molded from...

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                Suppliers of grinding equipment are important partners to the pallet industry and its related industries, such as sawmills and lumber remanufacturing. Pallet manufacturers and pallet recyclers and related industries generate significant volumes of residual or waste wood material, and...

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                When it comes to the new world of wood products research, it seems like the sky is literally the limit (think wood skyscrapers that are becoming a reality). Wood fiber is being used creatively in the development of soon-to-be-affordable...

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                Lean management methods have been in the business world since the early 1900s or sooner, although former Toyota executives are credited with crystallizing and popularizing them in the 1980s.                 The core concept, according to the Lean Enterprise Institute,...

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                Prospecting makes for better salespeople and sharpens communication skills more than anything else we can do. Many sellers only call on their ‘Sugar-Baby’ accounts. When one (or more!) of these accounts blows up these sales people cannot dig their...

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                At an age when many people are retiring, Frank Dottori is reviving a shuttered sawmill and speaking boldly about the future of his new operation, White River Forest Products. This 76 year old has become a legend in the...

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