PalletOne News

PalletOne CEO Interviewed About Lean in Industry Magazine

BARTOW, FL – February 1, 2014 – PalletOne CEO Howe Wallace was one of three pallet industry leaders to be interviewed about lean manufacturing in the January/February 2014 issue of the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association’s PalletCentral magazine. The article discusses the elimination of wasted time, materials, and motion, and Wallace shares how PalletOne has applied lean principles, working as a team to constantly identify and reduce waste. He also discusses the importance of continued training and education in reinforcing lean concepts and maintaining a lean culture.

PalletOne Helps Customer Achieve Waste Reduction Goals

BARTOW, FL – January 17, 2014 – By designing a new pallet for use internally, the PalletOne team assisted a customer in eliminating more than 25,000 pounds annually of corrugated waste. The customer, an international, multi-site plastics manufacturing company, was interested in eliminating the cardboard honeycomb dunnage that arrived with their cardboard box packaging, a goal PalletOne helped them successfully meet by designing a custom inverted pallet to replace the dunnage.

Benefits to the customer:

• A 28,000-pound reduction in incoming corrugated waste annually,

PalletOne Joins Industry Members to Represent Interests at Hearing

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – October 4, 2013 – PalletOne and other industry members joined representatives from the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA) today at an International Code Council (ICC) hearing to voice concerns over proposed new regulations. The industry attendees were successful in getting the proposed changes, which would have negatively affected PalletOne and many other members of the pallet industry, disapproved.

Reed Esarove of PalletOne’s national sales team traveled to Atlantic City,

PalletOne of Maine Receives Forest Stewardship Council™ (FSC®) Certification

LIVERMORE FALLS, ME – July 17, 2013 – PalletOne of Maine today became the only sawmill in the state to produce hardwood chips and pallets certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Longtime chip customer Verso Paper Corp. recently awarded the facility a grant to cover the cost of the certification process, which will increase the amount of FSC-certified material available to Verso and ultimately to Verso’s paper customers. Some of the FSC credits the facility generates can also be applied to pallet lumber,

PalletOne Adds Industrial Recycling to Services Offered

BARTOW, FL – May 9, 2013 – With a growing number of customers interested in implementing sustainability practices but unsure where to begin, PalletOne is uniquely positioned to educate them on a successful approach. Thomas Bean, who joined PalletOne in October 2012, brings his background in sustainability and industrial recycling to the table to provide a new value-added service to our customers. Bean will be working with customers to develop landfill management and industrial recycling programs.

PalletOne Facility Featured in February Edition of “Pallet Enterprise”

BUTNER, NC – February 1, 2013 – PalletOne’s Butner, North Carolina, facility is featured in the February issue of the industry publication Pallet Enterprise. The article focuses on PalletOne’s lean journey, detailing the transformation that has taken place at the Butner plant due to the team’s successful implementation of lean practices. It also touches on PalletOne’s mulch certification program, led by teammates at the Butner facility. View the full color version as it appears in the magazine here,

State and Local Representatives Visit PalletOne of Maine

Left to right: Clayton Miller – Plant Manager, PalletOne of Maine; Senator Garrett Paul Mason – Maine Senate District 17; Alison Hagerstrom – Executive Director, Greater Franklin County Development Corporation; Donnie Isaacson – General Manager, PalletOne of Maine; Carlene Tremblay – State Office Representative for United States Senator Susan Collins; and Brian Doyle – Governor’s Account Executive for the Department of Economic and Community Development.

LIVERMORE FALLS, ME –

PalletOne Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

BARTOW, FL – October 19, 2011 – Today marks PalletOne’s tenth anniversary. On this date in 2001, 12 pallet manufacturing facilities came together to form PalletOne, which became the largest new pallet manufacturing company in the United States. In its 10-year history PalletOne has endured through the historic events of 9-11 and the worst recession since the Great Depression, yet the company continues to grow, improve and become stronger. The company has grown from 12 pallet facilities to 17,