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 [...]
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 [...]
Greenway's President Dominick Davi interviewed in Fox News' Coverage on Pallet Prices One of the leading contributors to shipping and inflation problems is the surging cost of wooden pallets. What exactly is the problem? The problem is a scarcity of wooden pallets that's driving prices. Brand new pallets before the pandemic would have cost about [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Does Your Prospective Pallet Supplier Rate? Initial Impressions Handle with Care Step by Step Safety First Does Everything Add Up? Ideally, it would be possible to explore a pallet supplier’s website, speak with a representative from their company [...]
