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What Are Heat Treat Pallets and Why Do Pallets Need To Be Heat Treated?
Heat treat pallets are required for all wood packaging material used in international shipments. One of the necessary steps for ensuring the safety of not only the product being shipped, but also the environment of the product’s destination, is heat treatment. Wood pallets are made from organic material - trees. Trees do not grow in ...
Why Bark Free Pallets Are Being Considered a Solution
While the public is only just becoming aware of the dangers facing North American trees from pest infestations such as the Emerald Ash Borer, pallet makers have been waiting to see how this will affect shipping and pallet making for over a decade. ISPM-15, or International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures No. 15, is “an international ...
Why Pallet Testing Is Important
While the average person probably does not often stop to think about pallets, when he does, he probably thinks that pallets are all the same. Obviously this isn’t true, as anyone in the pallet industry knows. Governments, pallet companies, and universities - to name a few - are constantly conducting research to determine the best ...
Why Kamps’ Lumber Recycling Project is Important
One of the most important initiatives this year at Kamps is our lumber recycling center (LRC) project. Making use of lumber recycling centers will be an excellent way for Kamps to produce lumber from recycled pallets, and it will enable Kamps to bring new and existing customers much better pricing compared to all-new lumber pallets. ...
Packaging and Pallets: Working Together
While many Americans have heard that their food has traveled, on average, 1,500 miles from the farm to their plate, most people have no idea what this really means, nutritionally or logistically. How can meat and produce travel so far and still be fresh and edible? It’s because of pallets, and some other technological innovation: ...
Preventing All Types Of Pallet Related Injuries
Pallets, being essential for the global transport of nearly everything, are very useful items. However, it is important to acknowledge that the careful use and handling of pallets should be a priority for all businesses whose employees work with them because manual pallet handling injuries are very common. Earlier in January the results of a ...
75 Years Of Pallets!
Have you ever wondered how long the pallet has been revolutionizing shipping in this country and worldwide? Wonder no more. The pallet and the lift truck are now celebrating 75 years of revolutionary service, and, unlike many other inventions of the 1930's, they are still recognizable in form and function. In November of 1939, George ...