Environment and Sustainability | Processes and Operations What’s Causing My Wood Packaging Costs to Go Up? Steve Yelland - Apr 29, 2018 Over the past 5 months, our customers have seen increasing prices for pallets, boxes, and crates, often with little or...
Environment and Sustainability Wondering How to Recycle a Pallet? Here Are 5 Easy Ways Steve Yelland - Oct 14, 2016 You’ve been working with pallets for years. You’ve bought them, re-used them and repaired them, meeting the demand for outbound...
Environment and Sustainability Reborn, Reused, Recycled: How Pallets Find a Second Life as Mulch Steve Yelland - Aug 26, 2016 Wood pallets first became commonplace in the 1940’s after innovations in the material handling industry. In infancy of pallet usage,...
Environment and Sustainability Are We Cutting Down All of Our Hardwood Forests? Not Even Close Steve Yelland - Aug 26, 2016 It is a common environmental concern: America’s hardwood forests are smaller than ever. They are being cut down but not...
Environment and Sustainability Reuse, Recycle, RE-STAMP! Steve Yelland - Mar 25, 2016 Improper stamping is a pressing issue in the American pallet manufacturing industry. Consider the following scenario: a pallet manufacturer sells...
Environment and Sustainability ISPM15 Recycling Regulations: Why We Need to Follow the Rules Steve Yelland - Mar 17, 2016 One of the biggest issues currently facing the pallet manufacturing industry is the controversy over the ISPM15 recycling regulations. The...
Environment and Sustainability Just Because This Treatment Is Legal Doesn’t Mean You Should Be Using It Steve Yelland - Mar 11, 2016 Since 1932, the most commonly used pesticide used for treating and fumigating pallets in The United States has been methyl...
Environment and Sustainability | Industry Standards What is IPPC and What Role Does it Play in the Pallet Industry? Steve Yelland - Dec 03, 2015 The IPPC protects against the transport of invasive species across borders. Because invasive species present a tremendous danger to native...
Environment and Sustainability Did You Know Wood Pallets are an Environmentally Friendly Choice? Steve Yelland - Oct 01, 2015 What happens to scrap pallets once they are deemed no longer fit for use? Some of them might be sacrificed...