16 WESTERN PALLET
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Membership campaign runners up included L to R: Dave Uppal, Pioneer Pallet; Rick LeBlanc, WPA Magazine; Rick Autey, C&R Pallet Machinery Services; Ken Hess, Smart Products; Norm Normile, NW Norm; Greg Vipond, Girard Wood Products; Eric Ander, Pacific NW Lumber Ltd. Not pictured: Tyrone Konecny, Utah Lumber; Randy Panko, Wood-Mizer; Trace Sutter, Spokane Forest Products; Greg Wine, Pallet Machinery Group; Ian Liddell, Summit Funding Group; Roger Caruso, Century Pallets
The speaker program included presentations from Dr. World Nieh of the U.S. Forest Service (Bioeconomy - An Exciting Future for Forest Products), Paul Kanitra (The New Administration's First Year and Path Forward), Khaled Mabrouk (Sustainable Productivity), Chaille Brindley (Five Key Trends That Will Change Everything in the Pallet Industry), and Dr. Brad Gething (New Fire Codes for Outdoor Pallet Storage and What They Mean for Your Business). In this issue we report on the Kanitra, Mabrouk and Gething sessions. Check back next month for our coverage on Brindley and Nieh.