When Anglo-Dutch steel giant Corus wanted to improve the efficiency and cost of its pallet program, the answer was right in one of its steel mills in northern England.     Corus manufactures flat, rolled steel. The company...

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    (Editor’s Note: Loscam is an Australian-based pallet rental company.   At the request of some key customers, it established service in Asia several years ago, and today it is the market leader in Asia. Earlier this year, rumors...

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Earlier in the decade, the Cement Association of Canada (CAC) embarked on its sustainable development program, and the topic of pallets came into the spotlight. At that time, only about 10% of wood pallets used to transport bagged cement in...

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    You would think we could come to a solution over the current health care cost vexing so many small businesses and people in the United States today. The only real question that applies to the issue is how...

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    There are plenty of considerations a pallet or sawmill company needs to take into account before adding its own trucking operations. There is a lot of federal red tape associated with trucking, and it must be navigated.  ...

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Gentlemen,     Rick LeBlanc wrote a very interesting column about the GMA footprint (GMA Footprint Optimized Both Rail and Truck Freight, May Pallet Enterprise). For many years almost everyone in the pallet industry has tried to develop a uniform...

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Industrial Resources Under New Ownership       A private equity group has purchased Industrial Resources of Michigan Inc. and changed the name of the company to Industrial Resources Inc.     Dan Collins, formerly executive vice president of the...

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    Like it or not, transportation and logistics are becoming a more important part of most businesses, especially pallet and lumber companies. While some people see hassles, others envision opportunities.     Beyond Just-In-Time (JIT) delivery, there are a...

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Dear Dr. Moore: What can I do to help address the problem of climate change?       The most important thing is to reduce fossil fuel consumption.     When fossil fuels — including coal, oil and natural gas...

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    The region of the Ohio River Valley, including most of West Virginia and most of Pennsylvania, has been somewhat of a market island. It is not that trends in this region are necessarily contradictory. In fact, often this...

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