Kamps Pallets Insights & News

Customer service is an integral part of any successful company, and at Kamps we repeatedly stress the importance of customer service to our employees. It’s our aim to answer the phone quickly, to be enthusiastic about meeting our customers’ needs, and to make sure our pallet shipping process is streamlined and error free. Customers who […]

Like any manufacturing industry with workers who handle tools and heavy machinery, the pallet industry has to grapple with how to keep its workers most safe while building, repairing, lifting, moving, and hauling its product: pallets. Kamps prides itself on its vigilant attitude toward worker safety, and has set a motivating goal for its workforce […]

By: Mitchell Kamps Summer, as the hottest and driest season of the year, brings with it an increased risk of fire. Like any businesses that use wood extensively in its production, a pallet company is more vulnerable to fire: entire pallet inventories can be destroyed in a couple of hours, and fire also endangers people […]

By: Mitchell Kamps What is the world pallet market likely to do next? This is a question that can be challenging to answer, yet is continuously on the minds of everyone in the pallet and logistics markets. The last few years we’ve seen some big swings in the pricing and availability of softwood and hardwood, […]

Kamps Pallets is excited to announce that we are are opening another plant this month in Erlanger, Kentucky. This new plant will be located at 30 Kenton Lands Road and will be servicing primarily the Cincinnati, OH and Lexington, KY markets. The building we will be occupying is 44,000 square feet with eight docks and […]

By: Mitchell Kamps The vast increase in lumber cost and the lack of availability of Midwest hardwoods and softwoods is affecting all businesses that rely on wood as a supply element for its products. This includes Kamps as well. As pallet makers we need a continuous supply of wood to serve our clients’ shipping needs, […]

By: Mitchell Kamps   Over the last few years the pallet industry has been nothing but a roller coaster ride for both suppliers and customers served. It was not too long ago that there was such a core shortage industry-wide that we at Kamps spent nearly all of our time locating cores to keep up […]

By: Mitchell Kamps Shopping – it’s something that people do daily, out of necessity, to relieve stress and boredom, even for entertainment, but most people do not realize that those things we buy, whether simple, complex, cheap, expensive, large or small, spent at least some time on a wood pallet. Sometime in each item’s history, […]

This article was taken from the Pallet Profile published on August 16, 2013. It was written by Chaille Brindley. For the record, trees are good and cutting them down is good too if you use them and follow responsible forestry practices. Noted forestry scientist, Dr. Jim Bowyer, has conducted research through the years on public […]

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Everyone knows that pallets are used to ship product here, there, and everywhere.  But as of late, there has been an infatuation of transforming the old or used into something new and extraordinary.  Check out this wonderful piece of décor created by one of our customers! This pallet-table was spotted by one […]