Safelite to Begin Replacing 20,000 Wood Pallets with Steel Pallets

Press Release COLUMBUS, Ohio – Jan. 17, 2012 – Steel shipping pallets offer a more sustainable alternative for vehicle glass transportation than the commonly used wood or corrugated pallet, and over the next three years, Safelite AutoGlass®, the nation’s largest provider of vehicle glass repair and replacement services, will begin to replace 20,000 wood pallets [...]

Game Changer – Is No Wood Pallets Swedish for Common Sense?

Every so often there are decisions in industry that have the potential to be game changers, and the question here is whether the pallet change decision by IKEA can be potentially classified as one of them. Decisions made about pallets and transport packaging by major players certainly can influence the market in a significant way. [...]

IKEA Phases Out Wood Pallets

IKEA is phasing out the use of wood pallets across its global operations. The leading international retailer is converting to the use of paper pallets and the Optiledge for a number of reasons, outlined later in this report. The conversion project, known internally as Handling Material No Wood (HM NOW) began in Germany and Japan [...]

Dr. Mark White and the MMH Pallet Survey

There is a rich history between Modern Materials Handling Magazine and pallets, dating back to the Second World War with Modern’s forerunner, The Palletizer. And Modern has been involved in pallet usage surveys for awhile. I have one on my shelf dating from 1996, and I’m guessing that it wasn’t the first. The new Modern [...]

Pallet industry David tries to slay Goliath

(Reuters) – Most of us only care what they hold, but for David Lee shipping pallets are the prize. “People refer to them as necessary evils and I think that’s sad,” said Lee, 62, the CEO of fast-growing Yonkers, New York-based Peco Pallet Inc, which rents wooden pallets used by consumer products makers to move [...]

China Agrees to Accept ISPM-15 Compliant Packaging Stamped by 3rd Country

U.K. site Palletlink is reporting that China agrees with the EU interpretation of ISPM-15 and will now accept compliant packaging even if it is stamped by a country other than that of the exporting nation. At the beginning of the summer, members of the U.K. wood packaging marking scheme (UKWPMMP) were alerted that AQSIQ (Administration [...]

Company Picks Up Empty Pallets from Construction Sites

Wooden pallets are often the first items to arrive on a construction site — and the last ones to leave. They’re frequently found among the debris that leaves a construction site, unwanted, unloved and sometimes in such bad shape they’re simply unusable. Philip Varley, president of Mississauga-based Toronto Pallets and Pallet Pick-up Canada employs four [...]

Pallet Mold Prevention: How X-Mold Got Started

by DeWayne Mayo Vice President X-M Industries In 2005, X-Mold was formed as a part of X-M Industries, which has been in business since 1997. Originally, X-Mold was founded to serve the new home construction market, which had a need for mold prevention. The company initially used treatments & products already available in the marketplace, [...]

Ultima Foods Selects CHEP Pallet Program to Improve Pallet Quality and Administration, Food Safety and Customer Service

Ultima Foods, Inc., one of the leading Canadian producers and distributors of yogurt and fresh dairy products,  has signed a new contract to transport its products on pallets from CHEP. Ultima Foods now ships Yoplait yogurt and other fresh dairy products on CHEP pallets from the company’s plant in Granby, Quebec to supermarkets, mass retailers, [...]

Costco’s New Year Resolution: No More Stringer Pallets

Speaking at the Regional Meeting of the Canadian Pallet Council (www.cpcpallet.com) this week in New Westminster, B.C., CPC President and CEO Belinda Junkin reported that effective January 1, 2011, Costco will no longer accept stringer pallets in Canada. This is a policy change that also affects U.S. and Mexican operations. In Canada, neither CPC nor [...]

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