As awareness increases about the impact of consumer culture on the global ecology and climate, people are increasingly demanding that the companies that supply their products and services, all the way up the supply chain, become more careful and responsible regarding their environmental impact. This is true even in renewable industries driven by wood [...]
As more countries, businesses, and private individuals recognize the need to do their part to reduce their carbon footprint and counteract global climate change, they seek alternative fuel sources for heating, cooking, and energy production. The surprising outcome of this search for more environmentally friendly fuels is that several of these options are also [...]
Some of the best ways to improve our environmental impact are by using recycled products and choosing natural, biodegradable materials. Sawdust, made from recycled wood packaging and shipping pallets, neatly fits both of these descriptors, and has a surprising number of uses around the house, garden, and workshop. Most homes can benefit from at [...]
Anyone who regularly interacts with wooden shipping pallets – whether as a buyer who needs a regular supply of pallets to transport products, as a business owner whose employees are going to be loading and unloading goods from pallets on a frequent basis, or as a DIY hobbyist looking for pallet lumber as a source [...]
Every industry has its own patterns and trends that tend to repeat cyclically year after year. Understanding these patterns for your own business is one of the keys to success, but when you need shipping pallets to move your products from manufacture to warehouse to customers, it also helps to understand the cycles that dictate [...]
Greenway Products and Services, a Kamps® Company, Contribution to Saving Lives During Pandemic Crisis Pallets have gotten us through one worldwide crisis, and will again be critical in handling the next. Just one year ago, FEMA assembled massive distribution networks for Covid-19 vaccines, personal protective equipment (PPE), and Covid testing kits. Rather than simply dumping [...]
Pallet Enterprise, the leading trade magazine serving the pallet, wood packaging and wood processing industries, featured their interview with Dominick Davi, regional manager of Kamps Greenway, in the magazine's February 2022 issue. When asked for his best business advice, he did not hesitate, replying, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." Davi outlined [...]
Much of the Canadian trucker protest news coverage, and the blockage of trade that passes over the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, focuses on its impact and interference with auto production lines. Little mention is made of consequence of timber imports – on the lumber used to build pallets, and its deleterious impact [...]
With industry and commerce becoming more globally interconnected than ever, businesses of all sizes and scales find themselves facing the challenges of shipping their products across international borders. With wooden shipping pallets serving as such an essential element of the supply chain that two billion pallets are in active use in the United States alone [...]
GRAND RAPIDS, MI, December 28, 2021 – Continuing to grow its footprint across the North-East region, national pallet recycler Kamps, Inc. (“Kamps”) acquired Greenway Products & Services, LLC (“Greenway”) on December 27. Greenway is a full-service pallet recycler and new pallet manufacturer with three asset-based facilities in the Tri-State area. The acquisition of Greenway reinforces [...]
