Suppliers Offer Tips on Sawing, Blades For this issue of Pallet Enterprise, we asked advertisers who supply saw machinery, saw blades or saw blade service to write a ‘tip’ for our readers about sawing or saw blade maintenance....
Pallet Enterprise magazine will host a ground breaking audio conference for pallet suppliers on October 17, 2007. The guest speaker for the conference will be Clarence Leising, a pallet industry veteran and recycling specialist. He will...
STOCKTON, California — Engineered wood is an immense part of the product line at Golden State Lumber. So much so that it now has a new, dedicated 19,000-square-foot facility for cutting. The free-span building that houses the company’s...
Rayco Develops Brander Conveyor Rayco Industries, which manufactures pallet nailing machines, has developed a new brander conveyor for the pallet industry. The machine can brand up to 750 stringers per hour, according to the company. The...
Over my thirty years of working with the pallet industry, I have watched recycling expand around the world. More than new pallet manufacturing, recycling offers a glimpse into the differences in our industry, its products, and our opportunities....
The recent rains in Texas and along the Gulf Coast region have been well documented. National news reports focused more on Texas because of the amount of rain and flooding. That doesn’t mean that Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama...
(Note: The Virginia Tech Center for Unit Load Design and the U.S. Forest Service Wood Education & Resource Center (WERC) cosponsored a conference in June on preventing and eliminating mold on wood pallets. The conference offered a consolidated...
In a recent consulting assignment, I was charged with reducing the loss of pallets and kegs at hundreds of small retail customers served by ‘Bubba Sudz,’ a large beer distributor. Those pesky empty pallets and kegs have...
NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio — When you hear about the latest travels that Larry Moyes, owner of Dobie Pallets, has taken on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle, it’s easy to conclude the pallet recycler is now living the good life. He...
Ernie Riling has been in the pallet industry for about 15 years, both manufacturing new pallets and pallet recycling. As CEO of Professional Pallet Services Inc. in Dayton, Oh., Ernie noticed that the pallet industry lacked...