Just when it seemed that the white wood pool was going to go down for a final 10 count, a bucket of cold water stirred it back to consciousness. It is battered and bruised, but it hears somebody talking —...
SOUTH BAY, Florida – When a produce packing business needs pallets, it needs pallets. It cannot afford to have containers of fresh, ripe produce stockpiled, waiting for delivery to a processing plant. Packed produce may bruise easily, and it may...
SURREY, British Columbia — Arjinder Brar had worked in the pallet cut stock business only three years when he started his own company. His business, D. S. Timber, is known to Western Canadian and U.S. pallet manufacturing companies as a...
‘Nailing on the fly’ is a catch phrase that I coined to describe the continuous motion assembly line repair of a pallet. Although the name is used to describe a specific process within the pallet industry, the overall technique is...
There are five things you want to accomplish went putting in a system for repairing and recycling pallets. Briefly, here they are: ! Get the pallets to the builder as easy as possible. ! Get the pallets away from the...
When Pallet Enterprise publisher Ed Brindley first spoke to me about writing an article about OSHA and the use of bandsaw dismantlers in the pallet recycling industry, his question was: Do we write about OSHA and risk irritating them, like...
PERRYSBURG, Ohio—Tim Welch, president of Pallet World, Inc., has been in the business of remanufacturing pallets since 1992. Pallet World sells more than 1 million pallets each year. After losing his factory job more than a decade ago, Tim got...
COBOURG, Ontario — The Canadian Pallet Council (CPC) recently held its annual conference and meeting with the theme, ‘The Future Is Now.’ The event reaffirmed the CPC is forging ahead with innovative ideas, renewed commitment and a new corporate look....
If you’re a customer of the Pallet Design System (PDS), you should have received version 3.3, the latest edition of the software. You may be wondering if it contains any new, noteworthy features. While version 3.3 may not be as...
Morbark System Uses Dry Mulch Colorant Morbark has introduced a new mulch coloring technology that utilizes a dry colorant. The new system, which replaces liquid dyes with a powder, provides several advantages, according to Morbark. The new Morbark Dry Colorant...