Kamps Pallets Insights & News

Grocery stores, distribution centers, and manufacturing plants all use pallets to handle food and beverages. To ensure the process of moving products between warehouses and locations is quick and standardized, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), now known as the Consumer Brands Association (CBA), has established a set of guidelines for all food industry pallets. These […]

Whether we want to accept the fact that another winter season will soon be here, preparations for snow, slush, and wet conditions are already taking place at Kamps Pallets. Kamps has always been committed to safety in our plants and to forklift safety in particular. Although not all of our customers nationwide will be affected […]

If you’ve been to Costco or Sam’s Club lately, you know what a pallet looks like and maybe that pallets are used for shipping products all over the world. Aside from that, what is a pallet really? Here is everything you need to know: Top Pallet Questions:  What is a pallet? A pallet is a […]

FACT or FICTION? Here are some common ideas about pallets, the pallet market and our company with our straight take on the truth of each. 95% of wooden pallets in the market are being recycled FACT: At Kamps Pallets, we track our efforts to preserve natural resources with our Green Scorecard. Over the last year […]

There is no question that social media has grown and evolved over the last ten years and truly consumes our modern day world. Facebook has changed from becoming a place to connect with old friends to catching the latest news, seeing what events are happening around town, or posting a photo of your latest shareable […]

Sometimes striving for excellence means showing the same dedication that you have in creating a beautiful garden and bringing it into the Accounts Payable department. When Kandi Braspenninx was a child, her grandmother inspired in her a love of flowers that has stuck around to this day. From roaming her grandmother’s garden to creating beautiful […]

6/25/18— Kamps Pallets, a national pallet company headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI, announces partnership with Corrloc LLC, a corrugated pallet and packaging company. Dan Gibson, Corrloc co-founder, says, “Corrloc will be widely adopted in the market place due to its cost to strength ratio.  Our customers will no longer have to choose one or the […]

Corporate Maintenance – Automating from Scratch Kamps Pallets looks a little bit different than 11 years ago when Frank Swartz started in maintenance at the Grand Rapids, Michigan plant. Kamps has grown significantly in both geographical span and number of employees since Frank started in maintenance. With that growth has come a need for increased […]

Do you love meetings? No, of course not. Most people dread meetings and prefer to have fewer or no meetings because when you are in meetings, you are usually not being productive. We can go into why businesses spend so much time in unproductive meetings, but it’s not going to help your business to understand […]

As part of Kamps Pallets’ commitment to environmental sustainability, we turn wood waste that is unsuitable for landscape mulch into biomass used by energy plants. By converting waste to energy we are able to power cities, schools, factories and more. Wood waste that cannot be used as landscape mulch, such as plywood, laminates, particle boards, […]