Recent Posts
Finding the Beauty in Pallet Wood
Recently, Pallet Enterprise wrote an article about an Indiana woman named Kat Scott who uses Kamps recycled pallet wood as a medium for her muse. Kamps Pallets played a unique role in this story, and we are proud both of it and our local pallet artist. Kat Scott has found a way to make something ...
Why Use Recon Pallets?
Understanding the pallet market is our job at Kamps. We keep ourselves continuously updated about things like hardwood availability, world pallet availability, and the price of nails so that we can continue to provide our customers with pallets that are reliable and competitively priced. But sometimes customers have questions about the terms we use for the different ...
Is Using Wood Resources to Make Pallets a Good Thing?
Americans are becoming more environmentally conscious, and we at Kamps often get questioned about our use of wood as a resource. It’s common knowledge that trees are a good thing. They have many benefits for the environment. They reduce carbon dioxide in the air, capturing it and using it to produce a material that has countless practical ...
Kamps: Proud of our Pallets
Kamps prides itself on producing a good product - our pallets - and doing so in an environmentally responsible way. We’ve talked before about common myths about forests and lumber, but it’s important to remember that pallet making doesn’t result in deforestation. The trees that pallet lumber comes from are harvested sustainably. What does that ...
What Do Pallets Have To Do with the Price of Nails in China?
There has been some concern within the pallet industry about the increased price of nails and what it means for the future of pallets. So we thought we’d examine the problem. What is this business with nails, and why is it important? First of all, pallets are not manufactured in a vacuum. Pallet construction is ...
Harmony in the Pallet Industry – Kamps Stands Out!
Bernie Kamps, owner and CEO of Kamps, Inc. expresses his joy in what he perceives as “harmony in the pallet industry at Kamps.” On his recent plant visits he recalls enjoying the visits because of our fantastic people and what they accomplish. "The plants are in great shape, with outstanding housekeeping, neat and orderly pallet yards, and ...
Pallets Move Our World
We at Kamps understand the impact the pallet has on the transportation of goods in today’s global economy. Do you? There are 2 billion pallets in supply in the United States, and 3.2 billion board feet of hardwood is produced every year to maintain this supply. Approximately 80 percent of U.S. commercial goods are shipped on pallets. The ...