After carrying the weight of the global economy since World War II with little fanfare, the lowly shipping pallet is finally commanding some respect. Demand for the platforms used to haul nearly every ...

Ever see stacks of rickety wooden pallets left to rot behind a distribution facility? Ever buy an appliance or furniture and feel bad about throwing its shipping pallet or container in the garbage? No ...

It wasn't but a decade ago that plastic pallets were just beginning to come into wide-spread use, and while wood pallets are the most commonly used type, plastic pallets will register more impressive ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- After nearly 15 months of living through a pandemic, we're getting use to the fact that sometimes there are shortages in the supply chain. Probably the most notorious was the ...

The humble wooden shipping pallet is probably not something that most people think about too much. But it's a huge deal. At Virginia Tech, there's a whole center that focuses on pallets and packaging.

Just about everything in your home traveled on a wooden shipping pallet. In our worldwide economy, the humble pine pallet is the way that goods move around the globe. Demand for pallets is so great ...

When Johnson & Johnson heard complaints in 2009 about a musty odor coming from Tylenol Arthritis Pain caplets, it retraced its entire supply chain to find the source. The culprit: shipping pallets.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the National Wooden Pallet & Container Association (NWPCA) and the Pallet Foundation presented an Environmental Product Declaration for U.S.