| -- End Ad Box ---> | | | | Grand Rapids’s wood pallets production |
| The city of Grand Rapids strongly agrees and works | | | | industry works favorably for business and home |
| hand in hand with Michigan regulations in considering | | | | owners in the city. The local government is making |
| wood pallets as clean wood’, which can be | | | | every effort to support the industry. Wood pallets |
| reused, landfilled or used as bark mulch and fire wood | | | | re-manufacturing is a big boost for sound |
| unlike the scrap wood and treated wood. Being the | | | | environmental and economic revitalization in Grand |
| country’s center for furniture production, | | | | Rapids, Michigan. By repairing and recycling wood |
| Grand Rapids is committed to bringing world-class | | | | pallets, we are reducing the cutting of trees and |
| wood products such as wood pallets while striving to | | | | usable materials out of landfills as well as providing |
| be environmentally responsible. | | | | employment and materials to thousands of |
| Wood pallets are very much preferred and used by | | | | employees and companies in the entire Grand Rapids. |
| small and large companies, farms and even homes in | | | | The wood-pallets-recycling business owners in Grand |
| Grand Rapids. This is because they are cheaper than | | | | Rapids usually collect pallets from around the entire |
| plastic and metal pallets. Another reason why the | | | | city, sort them for rehash and reparability, fix them, |
| people in Grand Rapids are overwhelmingly supporting | | | | and then sell the repaired pallets back to the previous |
| wood pallets is because they are made from | | | | user or another buyer. Workers disassemble those |
| renewable resources and are recyclable, and most | | | | pallets that cannot be salvaged and cut to size |
| importantly, wood pallets have high friction to make | | | | reusable parts. Larger operations in Grand Rapids |
| the loads more secured. | | | | need varied degrees of automation for disassembling, |
| Wood pallets, sometimes called skids, are made from | | | | assembling and stacking wood pallets. Depending on |
| hardwood or softwood planks. ¾ of newly | | | | the condition, a single pallet may require a slight or full |
| manufactured hardwood construction are oak, and it | | | | repair process where a dismantling machine is needed |
| recieves about 50% of the hardwood timber | | | | to remove boards off the stringboards. The |
| harvested in the country. Wood pallets in Grand | | | | reclaimed and reusable parts are then rebuilt to |
| Rapids are easy to manage and leave almost zero | | | | become fully reusable wood pallets to be distributed |
| waste disposal. A recent study by the Department | | | | within Grand Rapids. |
| of Wood Science and Forest Products at Virginia | | | | A slight increase reported in the city of Grand Rapids, |
| Tech and the USDA report that a very small quantity | | | | recycling wood pallets saw a huge potential in |
| of 0.2 percent of broken pallets goes to a landfill. | | | | providing great job opportunities for the people. More |
| Wood pallets in Grand Rapids are not made from | | | | than 5,000 people in Grand Rapids are getting |
| fresh materials but from the unusable cut from | | | | livelihood in through the industry of wood pallet |
| preparing and processing timber so wood pallets are | | | | manufacturing with a total payroll of over $137 million |
| not only recyclable but efficiently transform waste | | | | each year. The recycling industry produces an annual |
| material into a viable product. Grand Rapids’s | | | | net income of about $2 billion from recycled goods |
| furniture industry helps in the recycling of wood | | | | including wood pallets. |
| pallets by giving out unexpended wood timber. | | | | |