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Consider the humble pallet: It’s an unglamorous but crucial part of the food supply chain, the platform upon which agricultural commodities ride as they travel from farm to packinghouse to
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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 that American manufacturers including many in Minnesota churn out nearly 1 billion of them every year.
And right now, it s not enough.
A worldwide shortage of pallets threatens to put a crimp in the flow of consumer goods, from tomatoes to toothpaste to toasters. Prices have doubled in the past year, and makers can t keep up with demand. I think it s a perfect storm, said Al Raushel, one of four brothers who own Savanna Pallets in McGregor, Minn. One of the Midwest s largest pallet manufacturers, Savanna turns out more than 10,000 pallets a day.
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Comments According to the NWPCA, U.S. wooden pallets are the first product ever to be awarded an EPD in the distribution package space.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The environmental attributes of U.S. wooden pallets are embodied in a new Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), according to the National Wooden Pallet & Container Association (NWPRCA).
The EPD was produced by the NWPCA with funding from the Pallet Foundation in conjunction with the Forest Products Lab, the research arm of the U.S. Forest Service. The EPD was also vetted and certified by UL.
According to the NWPCA, U.S. wooden pallets are the first product ever to be awarded an EPD in the distribution package space. The declaration covers the quantitative impact that wooden pallets have on the environment beyond their reusable, recyclable and biodegradable qualities.