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Thinking Ahead?Letter from Chaille: Finding Treasure... - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsSeptember, 1, 2006
You may be wondering why this month’s column features a picture of me dumpster diving. No, I haven’t lost my mind. Or at least I don’t think so. This month’s picture illustrates the fact...
Small Wood, Big Potential: Conference Explores... - Pallet Enterprise
Logging > Industry NewsSeptember, 1, 2006
(Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part article.) The landscape of the forest products industry is changing, and it may change rather dramatically in the years to come. How is it changing, and what are...
Pallet Scam: Has a Bogus Buyer... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > LawSeptember, 1, 2006
With a very competitive core market, it can be easy to get scammed if you don’t do your homework on new contacts and clients. Several pallet recyclers and trucking firms in the Midwest, East Coast and Southeast...
CWPCA Group Tours Pallet Plants And... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > AssociationsSeptember, 1, 2006
A group from the Canadian Wood Pallet and Container Associa- tion, joined by visitors from other countries, toured several pallet plants in the Mid-Atlantic region recently. The tour, organized by the CWPCA-ACMPC, was held...
L&R Grows in New Pallet Arena,... - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsSeptember, 1, 2006
DENVER, Colorado — L&R Pallet Service has grown in a number of important ways since 2000. The company expanded into manufacturing new pallets, which now account for 25%-30% of its total output. L&R also added new services for existing customers....
New on the Market - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Equipment, Products & ServicesAugust, 1, 2006
Brewco Introduces G-Series Gang Saw Brewco Inc., a leader in thin-kerf technology, has introduced the new Brewco G-Series Wolf Gang Saw. This double-arbor, single-bay machine is built very heavy with 1-inch thick side plates...
Markets in Transition: Plan for the... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > General AdviceAugust, 1, 2006
Whether it is fire, hurricane or even raids from Immigration and Naturalization Services, serious business disruptions have been no stranger to the pallet industry. Increasingly, business continuity planning has become a...
Virginia Tech Series: Optimizing Pallet Sizes... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Industry StandardsAugust, 1, 2006
As recognition of the important relationship between pallet size selection and supply chain optimization continues to grow, interest in standardizing pallet sizes is also increasing. Optimizing pallet size selection is an important variable that can lead to...
Thinking Ahead?Letter from Chaille: All?s Fair... - Pallet Enterprise
PalletsAugust, 1, 2006
What is a fair price for shipping, sortation, storage and retrieval services involved in returning stray proprietary pallets, especially CHEP-marked pallets? If you line up ten recyclers, you might get fifteen opinions on the matter. CHEP maintains...
New Hampshire Company a Pallet Industry... - Pallet Enterprise
Pallets > Pallet TreatmentAugust, 1, 2006
HENNIKER, New Hampshire – When international phytosanitary standards arose for wood packaging used for export, pallet manufacturers like HHP Inc. had some scrambling to do to install equipment to treat pallets. “Those discussions had been going...
