Since the second quarter of 2021, industry professionals have been talking about the increasing shortage (and resulting price spike) in wood pallets. Since so many industries, both nationwide and internationally, rely on wooden pallets to transport goods and materials at all levels of their supply chains, there are few businesses that have gone untouched by [...]
For several decades, the prevalent economic philosophy across numerous industries both on the national and international level supported a linear economic model – in which resources were drawn from the natural world, manufactured into products, and disposed of when their intended usage was completed. The assumptions of a linear economy were that natural resources were [...]
Greenway wood pallets are now USDA certified as BioPreferred. The USDA certification provides industrial buyers seeking environmentally conscious shipping a well-recognized standard. After extensive third-party testing involving numerous products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recognized the wood pallets manufactured with National Wooden Pallet & Container Association (NWPCA) Pallet Design System (PDS) qualify to be [...]
Greenway Products & Services' Baltimore MD facility has been highlighted in the August 2021 issue of Pallet Enterprise magazine, the leading trade magazine serving the pallet, low grade sawmill, wood packaging and wood processing industries. Greenway has expanded its pallet recycling and remanufacturing plants beyond New Jersey and New York when it opened its third [...]
Now distributors and warehouses, and any company that purchases wood pallets can quantify the ecological value of using wooden pallets. In July 2020, the National Wooden Pallet & Container Association (NWPCA) and the Pallet Foundation released the Environmental Product Declaration for wood pallets in the US. An Environmental Product Declaration, or EPD, gives consumers and [...]
Food Distributors, Manufacturers, and Online Warehouses Sell Excess Pallets in Bulk to Greenway Products & Services Shipping pallets are an essential resource for any company that relies on transporting goods. Once used, accumulated pallets can be an additional source of income. Greenway Products & Services will buy your used and broken standard-sized pallets in quantities [...]
Practically every industry that needs to transport large quantities of goods among the various stages of its supply chain – from manufacture to warehouse to distribution to retailer – relies on wooden shipping pallets. While pallets may be near-universally utilized for all manner of shipping tasks, however, they are very much not homogeneous; different types [...]
In the wood pallet industry, “mold” is a small word that can mean big trouble for suppliers and customers alike. The problem of mold is varied and diverse, and has naturally given rise to a wide array of approaches for combating it, each with its own advantages and drawbacks. Avoiding the growth of mold on [...]
The need for a robust quality assurance system is present in any business that provides a tangible product to its customers, but for a supplier of repaired and refurbished shipping pallets, quality management must be an ongoing process that acts as the guiding star of the company’s focus. This requires a strategy that is both [...]
By choosing to buy re-manufactured shipping pallets instead of newly manufactured pallets, businesses can save on their packaging and transportation costs. Scarcity: Where Has the Wood Gone? Consequences for the Pallet Industry Refurbished Pallets: The Economical and Responsible Solution About Greenway Products & Services As anyone who remembers [...]
