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News Briefs
Higher Than Normal Chance of Wildfires in Northwest Predicted in 2019
The National Interagency Fire Center is forecasting a higher than normal chance of wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, especially West of the Cascades. Read more.
LPR opens a new service centre in Contrexéville (France)
European expert in pallet pooling, LPR – La Palette Rouge, a division of the Euro Pool Group, is pursuing its network optimization policy and has announced the creation of a new service center, located at Contrexéville (FR), close to the factories of Nestlé Waters, a long standing pallet pooling customer. Read more.
A new French-language reference book on the wood pallet
SYPAL, the pallet commission of the French National Federation of Wood, has just published La palette bois, outil cle de votre performance. (The wood pallet, key tool of your performance.) This small pocket encyclopedia, written in French, is a valuable source of information for all those who use, manage and enhance the wood pallet every day. Read more.
Brambles|CHEP Launches Zero Waste World in North America
CHEP has announced a new initiative called Zero Waste World at the Sustainable Brands conference in Detroit, MI. This program, being rolled out globally in the coming months, brings together leading retailers and manufacturers to create smarter and more sustainable supply chains. Read more.
The secret life of a pallet: Exploring a booming Alabama business, its rustic-decor afterlife
Farmhouse decor is all the rage. Rustic, raw aesthetic has taken over Target shelves. The Fixer-Upper Gainess have put their stamp on pale wood paired with vines and white tile. But, Jimmy Wilson doesn’t know much about all that.
What Wilson knows is covered in sawdust and sandwiched between miles of soybean crop and buried under the heat of Baldwin County. Wilson knows pallets for what they are. Read more.