2024 Video Guide
Time for an Upgrade!
Find the piece of equipment you need to boost production. We list suppliers, their websites, a brief description of one of their videos, and the link to the video.
This guide covers a wide variety of machinery including equipment for pallet manufacturing, pallet recycling, sawing, grinding, and other products and services.
CUTTING TOOLS
Profile Technology
Profile Technology Inc. manufactures custom-designed and engineered cutting tools for the primary and secondary wood industry. Video illustrates a tool operating on a Pendu gangsaw to cut 1-inch wide grooves in 2×2 material for metal banding.
https://profiletech.com/video/
FASTENERS AND NAILING TOOLS
Everwin Pneumatic Corp.
Everwin Pneumatic Corp. is a manufacturer of pneumatic nailing and stapling tools. Video features the Everwin PN70CL clinch nailer for repairing block pallets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8FHR3Wx_D4&t=3s
Legacy Fasteners
Legacy Fasteners manufactures machine quality bulk nails and wire collated pallet nails. It distributes staples and pneumatic tools to support its fastener program. Video illustrates production of small coil nails.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrxGfTEe6qs
Mid-Continent Steel & Wire
Video celebrates Mid-Continent’s 35th anniversary showcasing its Missouri nail manufacturing plant. Mid-Continent is the largest domestic manufacturer serving the pallet and crating market with a complete assortment of machine quality bulk nails, collated nails, staples, screws and hand-drive bulk nails.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h96JZ_ffO7M&t=38s
GRINDERS AND SHREDDERS
Boulware Equipment
Boulware Equipment specializes in turnkey pallet scrap grinding systems and dust collection systems. It is a dealer for new Cresswood grinders and also used and rebuilt grinders from other manufacturers. Video illustrates Boulware wood grinding system in action featuring a Destroyer shredder.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXXW0MuYD44&t=19s
Cresswood Shredding Machinery
Cresswood manufactures grinding systems for wood material and pallets that include material handling, infeed and outfeed solutions, metal separation, and trailer/container loading. Video shows Cresswood Model HF-60LR low RPM wood shredder processing blocks, pallets, and a variety of materials.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFeNc7jJwI
Rotochopper
Rotochopper manufactures and markets wood grinding and shredding equipment to produce biomass, mulch, colored mulch, and other commodities. Joshua Fookes explains why he chose to go with Rotochopper when buying a new grinder instead of a company with a dealer model.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGkuPwm8-vA
MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT
Automated Industrial Technologies
AIT designs and manufactures automation machinery for the wood pallet industry and other industries. Video demonstrates AIT’s M2L-400 Ultra High-Speed Board Stacker.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FQ91B7jGpM
PALLET ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS
BD Solutions – Pneumatico
BD Solutions imports and distributes the Pneumatico brand of pallet assembly jigs and repair stations. Video illustrates the Pneumatico PT-1900 nailing jig.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6g302P8Ks
JF Industrial Technology
JF Industrial Technology Inc. is the North American branch of Qingdao Saifan Wood Packaging Machinery in China, which manufactures pallet and crate assembly equipment and wood processing equipment. Video illustrates the company’s SF1000 tandem nailing machine for assembling pallets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMANPQlgDd4
Midwest Machinery & Automation
Exclusive distributor of Woodpecker pallet nailing machines and the MASTer Recycler, which assembles pallets made of 100 percent recycled lumber. Vimeo site features videos of several different pallet nailing machines.
GBN Machine & Engineering Corporation
GBN manufactures block and stringer pallet nailing machines, pallet stackers, lumber stackers, and branders. Video demonstrates a GBN Excalibur II assembling PECO pallets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIN7lvCY4uU&t=130s
Pallet Chief Mfg.
Pallet Chief manufactures low-cost pallet assembly equipment that uses compressed air and collated fasteners. Video shows the Pallet Chief PCIV pallet nailing machine in operation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOOZglpSAjs
Pallet Machinery Group
www.palletmachinery.com
Pallet Machinery Group offers block and stringer pallet nailing systems, center split resaws, board stackers, and robotic and automation equipment. Video is an overview of company’s products and services.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CVc764XUE
Rayco Industries
Rayco Industries manufactures a complete line of semi-automatic pallet nailing machines that use collated nails. Video explains the features of the Rayco Pallet Pro, the company’s flagship pallet nailing machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpMnUh6MO50&t=44s
RT Pallet Equipment
RT Pallet Equipment manufactures semi-automatic jigs for nailing pallets as well as stacker. Equipment is fully pneumatic. Video illustrates jig operation to assemble a 3-string wing pallet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=neasnfT8_fo&t=25s
STORTI
Storti manufactures complete plants to process wood from logs to finished pallets and mats. Block and stringer pallet nailing machines are just one portion of the wide range of machinery produced. Video shows fully automated nailing line with quick format change-over for building 4-way pallets, 2-way pallets, perimeter pallets, and special pallets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vygWRo6GpVM
Viking Engineering & Development
Viking Engineering manufactures automated pallet assembly systems and supplies bulk nails. Video showcases Viking’s Voyager nailing machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvxfTipIuAM
Viper Industrial Products
www.viperindustrialproducts.com
Viper Industrial supplies pallet nailing machines, nailing tools, and coil nails and machine quality bulk nails. Link is to two videos illustrating features of the Viper Woody nailing machine and an introduction to Viper Industrial Products.
https://vimeo.com/user55914354
PALLET RECYCLING EQUIPMENT
Alliance Automation
www.allianceautomation.com/pallet-industry
Alliance Automation is an industry leader in automation equipment for pallet recycling. Its Robotic Pallet Dismantler, Urban Sawmill, and pallet repair & sortation equipment have helped to revolutionize automated pallet recycling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drpZ1bBH9Og
Automated Machine Systems
www.automatedmachinesystems.com
Automated Machine Systems provides turnkey manufacturing of automation supporting pallet sortation, repair, stacking, dispensing, painting and stenciling, and washing, along with robotic solutions. Video is a virtual tour of AMS facilities.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJFEF08VPgE
PRS Group
PRS Group leverages over 35 years of pallet machinery experience to give customers the edge in the evermore competitive pallet industry landscape. Applying technologies like PRS Automax trim saws can increase yield, lower labor, and provide smarter, data-driven solutions. Look to PRS for innovative answers to your pallet business needs.
https://youtu.be/eY0AkHMZhn4?si=zaBB60Fz2vRHwj1-
Smart Products
www.palletrecyclingequipment.com
Smart Products manufactures and supplies machines and systems for pallet recycling and lumber recovery, including pallet dismantlers and dismantling systems, pallet prep equipment, trim saws, notching machines, and more. Video shows pallet dismantler integrated with conveyor and trim saw for production of recycled boards.
www.palletrecyclingequipment.com/pallet-dismantlers/pallet-dismantler-system
Universal Machinery Sales
www.universalmachinerysales.net/index.html
Universal Machinery Sales offers machinery for the pallet industry, including pallet disassemblers, stackers, trim saws, resaws, nailing machines and much more. The video illustrates a Run-A-Gade disassembler in operation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJtF4t0CWIg&t=1s
SAWS/WOOD PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
Baker Products
Baker Products manufactures a complete line of sawmill equipment to process logs into lumber, including complete systems, sawmills, edgers, band resaws, notchers, scragg mills, and more. Video is a walkthrough of Baker Tri Scragg and other equipment in operation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVga_qOgWy0
Brewer Machine and Parts
Brewer offers heavy-duty equipment for manufacturing grade lumber, pallet components, rail ties, and barrel staves. Video shows undercut trim saw cutting cants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89pdsGWCx8
Cooper Machine
Cooper Machine manufactures machinery and equipment for sawmills and wood processing. Video demonstrates a Cooper system to recover boards from slab material.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smhHwc6Opc
Crosscut Solutions
Crosscut Solutions offers a wide variety of up-cutting saws in both mechanical cut off saw and pneumatic cut-off saw designs. Video illustrates pneumatic cut-off saw with rollover conveyor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97tsBrx47Fo
Go Fast Manufacturing
Go Fast Manufacturing designs and builds a wide range of machinery and equipment for the pallet and sawmill industries. Video depicts the Go Fast UpSTAK stacking machine behind a double-head notching line.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUp3UIEiRCE
Newman Machine
Newman Machine manufactures industrial wood processing equipment, including multi-trim saws and planers. Video shows a Newman KM-16HD Heavy Duty Multiple Trimmer in action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52FPdtWamIU
Pendu Manufacturing
Pendu Manufacturing produces standard and custom automated machinery for the pallet, sawmill, railway tie, log home, and other industries. Video demonstrates a Pendu multi-head trimmer cutting material to length and feeding directly to a gangsaw.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_DrLcsah8
Sering Sawmill Machinery Co.
www.seringsawmillmachinery.com
Sering Sawmill Machinery offers Blue Babe portable and stationary package saws. The company also manufactures log turners, hydraulic power units, carriage drives, log deck saws, and other sawmill equipment. Video shows one of the company’s log turners in action on a head rig.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HONjYAxfkJ8&t=77s
West Plains Resaw
West Plains Resaw Systems manufactures heavy-duty band resaws and material handling equipment for the grade lumber and pallet industries. Video shows 600 Series grade resaw in action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFkaovx_ok
UNIT OR PACKAGE SAWS
Holtec
Holtec manufactures systems that are used to cut whole bunks of lumber to length with precision. Link is to Holtec website page with videos about different systems.
L-M Equipment Co. Ltd.-CANADA
L-M Equipment Co. (CANADA) is a leading manufacturer of package crosscut saw systems. Video shows features and performance of Model HMPC-7-24 traveling arch saw.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r94-noZCRnU&t=4s
L-M Equipment Co.-U.S.
L-M Equipment Co. (U.S.) manufactures package saws, from portable yard saws to fully automated systems, as well as deck saws and high-speed circular chop saws. Video is a brief overview of the company’s product line.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg1yFeWnZ7E
Pacific Trail Manufacturing
Pacific Trail Manufacturing provides crosscut unit saws for cutting packages of lumber to length and deck saws for bucking logs to length. Video explains the features of Pacific Trail Accu-Cut, the company’s most sophisticated crosscut unit saw.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLb_ic4ycs
SAW Blades/Sales and Service
Fuelbox Industrial
Fuelbox Industrial manufactures and supplies circular saw blades and saw blades for pallet dismantling machines. Video highlights benefits of Fuelbox Industrial Butter blades for pallet dismantling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mESwxCdl7tw
WIKUS Saw Technology Corp.
WIKUS manufactures high-quality band saw blades for special applications in wood processing and other industries, check out the 34SPECIAL Pallet Dismantling blade. Video explains features and benefits of WIKUS GENERO® universal bimetal bandsaw blade for wood cutting applications.
www.wikussawtech.com/en/products/genero
Wood-Mizer
Wood-Mizer is a leading wood processing equipment company offering narrow band portable and industrial sawmill equipment, resaws, edgers, planer-moulders, pallet dismantlers, and bandsaw blades and blade maintenance equipment. Video illustrates the operations of Wilson Enterprises, which recently invested in a Wood-Mizer WB2000 industrial sawmill.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gl4Z5IDD4I
SPECIALTY EQUIPMENT, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Air Burners
Air Burners offers air curtain incinerators to eliminate wood debris, including whole pallets, logs, and stumps without hauling or grinding. Video features owner of Carolina Pallets discussing benefits of an Air Burners S330 FireBox.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQ84SvTNbw
Pallet Trader
www.pallettrader.com
Tutorial explaining the buying process in the revolutionary Pallet Trader online pallet marketplace. Covers key features and benefits of using this system. It is designed for pallet producers and buyers to discover one another and finalize transactions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpSKINe5Pe4
Biolube Inc.
Biolube manufactures the Lubie brand of saw lubricating systems and lubricants. Video explains use of Biolube Spray System and Lubie lubricant for West Plains Resaw equipment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=00RMJJMh4is&t=32s
Creekside Manufacturing
www.creeksidemanufacturing.com
Creekside Manufacturing makes hoppers, dumpsters and bins. Video shows an open end low-profile, self-dumping hopper.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFaYJKpYT7w
Group Archimbaud
Group Archimbaud manufactures Archiblock composite blocks for the construction of block pallets. Video is an overview of production of Archiblock composite blocks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZafhjjxSEYg
HUB Industrial Supply
HUB Industrial Supply offers pallet dismantling blades and other parts and supplies for the pallet industry, including PPE and MRO items such as belts, bearings and fuses. Video demonstrates the benefits of Pallet Mask paint for covering heat-treating labels.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhr93PyaU7I
Iron Bull Mfg.
Iron Bull Manufacturing makes a full line of scrap hoppers for any type of application. Video demonstrates forklift trailer mover from Sidekick Attachments, a subsidiary of Iron Bull.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_iF4sSDAo
J&J Machinery
J&J Machinery specializes in upgrading pallet nailing machines with modern operating systems and offers proven hardware and software for any machine. Video shows a nailing machine retrofitted to assemble pallets made of new and used lumber and equipped with the J&J machinery Smart Turner.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryLKy7OVIkM
Metal Detectors Inc.
Metal Detectors Inc. manufactures industrial conveyor line metal detectors to protect sawmills, hogs, chippers, and other equipment from metal in logs and other wood. Video is an overview of the company and its products.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmLDHnxr4Ac
Recycling Equipment Inc.
Recycling Equipment Inc. manufactures, sells, installs, and services balers, shredders, roll shears, conveyors, and other equipment for recycling certain types of material. Video is an overview demonstrating some of the company’s various products.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foizo5-lEXM
Sellick Equipment Ltd.
Sellick Equipment manufactures rough terrain forklifts and truck-mounted forklifts. It also distributes JCB Teletruk telescopic forklifts. Video showcases one of the company’s forklifts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmHRyEd_0gk&t=1s
SII Dry Kilns
SII Dry Kilns specializes in kilns for drying hardwood and softwood lumber, including predryers and fan sheds, as well as heat-treating systems for pallets and firewood. Video is an overview of the company and its products.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTriWOfkUk&t=35s
PALLET SOFTWARE AND ERP SYSTEMS
Helioz Technologies
Helioz Technologies offers software programs for industrial manufacturing business. The company’s Pallet Insights application is used for monitoring and managing pallets. Video is an introduction to Pallet Insights.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gwg6VwIBpw
Pallet Connect
Pallet Connect offers cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) management software for the pallet industry to help manage and connect customers, vendors, warehouse and financials in real time while simplifying workflow. Video is an overview of the Pallet Connect system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiJEZKl5Qps
The PalMate Group
The PalMate Group offers solutions for the pallet and lumber industry through software like PalMate ERP as well as other software products and technology. The video features an overview of PalMate ERP.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYCJQH4ebk&t=13s
White & Company
White & Company is an innovative consulting and software development firm with 45 years of experience in the pallet, packaging, and materials handling industries. Founded by Dr. Marshall S. White of Virginia Tech in 2007 with services and custom software products for pallet and unit load design optimization and supply chain efficiency. Video illustrates the company’s Best Load unit load optimization software.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJvXDMuReLY
