PalletOne News

There is No Such Thing As “Wood Waste”

North Carolina to ban wood pallets in landfills on October 1, PalletOne offers solutions for proper disposal

BUTNER, NC – September 23, 2009 – Tony Fogleman hates to see anything wasted, especially wood.

“There’s no such thing as wood waste. I’ve built a business on that,” says Fogleman, regarded as one of North Carolina’s wood recycling pioneers.

Fogleman has been recycling, reengineering and reusing wood pallets since the mid 1980s,

PalletOne’s Florida Facility Receives OSHA’s SHARP Certification

Members of the PalletOne of Bartow team pictured with Mylene Kellerman and Pat Stark of the USF SHARP Program.

BARTOW, FL – April 24, 2009 – PalletOne’s Bartow, Florida, location today became the company’s first facility to achieve certification through OSHA’s Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program, known as SHARP. The Bartow facility is now one of less than 60 businesses in Florida that are currently SHARP-certified. This certification recognizes PalletOne of Bartow as an employer that operates an exemplary safety and health management program,

PalletOne Named “Supplier of the Year” by Quad/Graphics and Quad Tech

NEW LONDON, WI – April 3, 2008 – PalletOne of Wisconsin was named “Supplier of The Year” in the category of Maintenance Repair and Operations (MRO) by Quad/Graphics and QuadTech, the hemisphere’s largest privately held commercial printer.

Greg Strehlow of Quad/Graphics said that this is the first time they have ever given an award like this to a pallet company. He said that they selected PalletOne because of its quality, service and creativity.

PalletOne Completes Purchase Of Sunbelt Forest Products Corporation

BARTOW, FL – November 15, 2006 – PalletOne, Inc., America’s largest manufacturer of new pallets, announced today that it has recently completed the purchase of Sunbelt Forest Products Corporation, a pressure treated wood and fence manufacturing operation located in Bartow, Florida. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

“We are pleased to be a part of the PalletOne community. The company’s management style shares many similarities with our own corporate culture. We believe that through this partnership we can strategically grow our business more rapidly,”

PalletOne Named “Vendor of the Year” By W.R. Bonsal

BARTOW, FL – June 27, 2002 – PalletOne of Florida was named “Vendor of The Year” for the second time in four years by the Pompano Beach branch of W.R. Bonsal, a major manufacturer of building materials in the South.

“We selected PalletOne because of their service record with our plant. We know we can depend on PalletOne to get us pallets when we need them, even if it’s after 5 p.m. or on weekends,”

PalletOne Announces Completion of Purchase of Pallet Manufacturing Operations

PalletOne, Inc. announced today that it has completed the purchase of 12 pallet manufacturing facilities in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. The completion of the purchase marks the founding of PalletOne, the largest new pallet manufacturer in the United States. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The businesses were purchased as part of a divestiture by IFCO Systems, formerly known as PalEx, which was a leading consolidator of pallet businesses in North America.