When a sawmill that had been run by International Paper (IP) sat empty in Isle of Wight County, Virginia after being shut down in the summer of 2009, several men who had been associated with the mill at different...

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                Working with salespeople, they                tell me, “It’s all about price, that’s all customers care about, price, price, price.” Price may be all customers talk about, but that’s not all they care about. More often than not, when working...

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                Pacific Trail Manufacturing Inc. helps its customers to solve problems every day by providing them with innovatively designed saws that offer consistent cutting tolerances with fewer wearable parts.                 “We have been told time again that our saws become...

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                Sometimes companies envision                opportunities where others see only headaches. Then again, sometimes luck literally comes knocking right in your own backyard. Both hold true for Pennsylvania’s Nazareth Pallet.                 As for opportunities, this rapidly growing pallet recycler jumped...

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                Moving from pallet design to the design of the entire unit load, saves pallet users hundreds of thousands of dollars by reducing packaging costs and improving their supply chain performance. The pallet supplier is the key to these cost...

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                Every pallet and lumber company has some wood waste and biomass residue. Knowing what best to do with it can be difficult at times to determine. That’s where knowing your local market and the trends in the biomass sector...

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                Rural Pennsylvania may be only 200 miles or less from New York City, but it might as well be on another continent when you consider the differences in work environment. That is one of the reasons why Ben Remmey...

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                Long range, strategic planning is a lot like nutrition, dieting and exercise. Everybody agrees these are good things to do in some regards. But they tend to be easy to ignore, hard to keep up with for a long...

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Larry Howell is the president of Cottondale Wood Products, a wooden pallet manufacturer and supplier, located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.   Pallet Enterprise: What is one thing you do at your company that is different from other pallet companies? Howell: Since...

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                If you’re a small business owner or manager, you understand what it’s like to have more to do than you can possibly get done in one day. Running your business usually includes being responsible for many different things that...

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