Key Concerns for Getting Started in the Pallet Recycling Business
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January 2014 • www.palletenterprise.com • 800-805-0263 BUYERS' GUIDE 2014 A YEAR-ROUND DIRECTORY OF SUPPLIERS KEEP HANDY FOR EASY ACCESS THROUGHOUT 2014 Solutions and Ideas for Sawmills, Pallet Operations and Wood Processors! The 2014 Pallet Enterprise Buyers’ Guide is your “Yellow Pages” for the pallet and low-grade lumber industries. Keep it handy all year long to find the best machinery and service suppliers that can help you take your operation to the next level of efficiency and profitability. Information about suppliers is listed based on the company name. Suppliers are listed alphabetically with details on the company and its complete contact information. When you are looking for the best suppliers of pallet manufacturing, pallet recycling, sawmill and wood processing equipment and supplies, check out the Pallet Enterprise Buyers’ Guide first. SUPPLIER LISTINGS ticle, & disc screens for chips & OSB • Air Density Email: [email protected] A Separators • Distributors: screw & vane-Particle board Website: www.drykilns.com Accord Financial Group & MDF furnish screening & cleaning systems • Leading the industry since 1981 in innovative & effec- 19 N Pearl St. Debarkers • Chip Crackers • Chip Slicers • Parts & tive drying solutions worldwide. A pioneer in develop- Covington, OH 45318-1609 Service Support for Acrowood & Black Clawson equip- ment of computer-controlled all-aluminum & stainless 513/293-4480 - 800/347-4977 ment. steel dry kilns. ThermoVent power venting & heat ex- Fax: 513/297-1778 changer system boosts kiln efficiency & improves lum- Contact: Ian Liddell ber uniformity & quality. ROI often realized in as little as Email: [email protected] 12 months in saved energy costs. Website: www.sawmillequipmentfinancing.com Help small business owners automate their pallet mfg/ 3537 88th Ave. NE American-Zyker Tool Repair, Inc. recycling operation through competitive equipment fi- Circle Pines, MN 55014 5800 Executive Drive nancing. Whether you are buying new or used equip- 888/324-7546 - 763/792-8940 Westland, MI 48185 ment, compare program to your local bank or investing Fax: 763/792-8943 734/331-4339 your valuable cash. Established businesses over 2 yrs Contact: Ryan Jones, Gregg Stanley Fax: 734/467-5083 in business can get same day approval up to $100K Email: [email protected] Contact: George Juszczyk without tax returns being needed. Website: www.airking.com Email: [email protected] Full-line industrial fastening distributor offering a full Website: www.aztrinc.com Ace Saw & Supply selection of nailing and stapling equipment and fasten- Provides quality service, timely repairs, and economical 5420 Katella Avenue ers. Customized programs for equipment and fasteners solutions for all brands of strapping tools. Offers tech- Los Alamitos, CA 90720 per your company’s unique requirements. Fastening nical support for all tools that are serviced. Products 562/594-6717 system brands include Bostitch, Magnum, Duo-Fast, include sealers, tensioners, combinations and accesso- Fax: 562/594-8062 Paslode and more. Container inquiries welcome. Direct ries. Contact: Murdoch or Elia ship to your door. Email: [email protected] Website: www.acesaw.com Air-Flow Trailer Systems, LLC Stocking distributor and weld center for Lenox N168 W21580 Main Street Woodmaster Band Saw Blade. Full service saw shop Jackson, WI 53037 sharpening all cutting tools. Supplying circular carbide 262/677-9033 2055 Enterprise Parkway tipped saw blade. Carbide insert safety equipment. Fax: 262/677-3790 Twinsburg, OH 44087 Contact: James Francois 330/425-4244 - 888/556-3304 Acrowood Corp. Email: [email protected] Fax: 330/425-4240 PO Box 1028 Website: www.aftstrailers.com Contact: Rocky Hatfield Everett, WA 98206 Trailers specially modified with vents and fans to air- Email: [email protected] 425/258-3555 dry pallets and prevent mold and mildew. Website: www.amerimulch.com Fax: 425/252-7622 Amerimulch® provides landscape coatings and tech- Contact: Kendall Kreft American Wood Dryers, Inc. nology for the production of profitable, in-demand Email: [email protected] 15495 S.E. For-Mor Court color-enriched mulches. Colorants are formulated for Website: www.acrowood.com Clackamas, OR 97015 superior bonding, coating and coverage and equipment Chippers: logs, blocks, edgings, & wastewood • 503/655-1955 is designed for producers who want simple, effective, Screens: shaker, diamondroll fines, thickness & par- Fax: 503/657-1304 high-volume production. Member of the Contact: Bill Moore, Gary Kolari ChromaScape® family of brands. BEST OF 2013 – GENERAL ADVICE Anson Industrial Mfg. Corporation 7392 Progress Place Website Marketing Gurus Delta, British Columbia V4G1A1 Canada 604/952-4055 - 800/663-7723 Share Best Practices Fax: 604/952-4058 By Chaille Brindley Contact: Terry McCormick You have two key audiences in website design - customers and prospects and Email: [email protected] Website: www.ansonindustrial.com search engines and social media websites. But many companies focus too much Anson manufactures a range of high quality, rugged on themselves and not what customers want or what search engines use to and practical items for the wood processing industry. decide a website’s relevance to particular keywords. Bearings, sprockets and take up frames are all designed for easy installation service and replacement. Anson Steve Dustin, co-founder of Adeo, an Internet marketing firm, said, “Google bearings are available with a full range of easy replace- has three major things it looks at when it ranks a website. Those are content, ment liners. backlinks and social media mentions and activity. If you are not offering any Arm Chaps - VanStarr Enterprises value, and the content is strictly marketing a company, you are not going to get PO Box 745 any retweets or social media mentions.” Hudson, WI 54016 That is where many pallet or lumber companies struggle to develop effective 651/492-4830 Contact: Rick Redman websites. They don’t keep the content current or don’t offer content that attracts Email: [email protected] the attention of potential customers or search engines. Website: www.armchaps.com One effective strategy is to develop static content about your company and Protects arms from bruising, cuts, scrapes, frayed cables, idle saws, puncture wounds, and poisonous pallets in general. Then create a blog that is updated at least several times per plants when working with trees, brush and other thorny month. It can have tips and tricks for customers, news on regulatory issues, or plants • Supports wrists & allows total finger movement information on pallet purchasing 101. • Easily worn under gloves & protects long sleeves • Made of leather that form-fits to you • Comes in various Key content should be produced in HTML not PDF or other proprietary formats colors • Zipper runs from wrist to top of forearm area • as these seldom appear toward the top of keyword searches. Also, websites Seven sizes available. should present easy to follow calls to action. Dustin said, “If you are not saying call us or fill out this form any place on your Happy New Year! website, you are missing out on an opportunity to convert that lead.” from the staff at PALLET ENTERPRISE 46 PALLET ENTERPRISE Request Advertiser Info at: www.palletenterprise.com/zip.asp peJanuary2014.pmd 46 12/18/2013, 3:10 PM SUPPLIER LISTINGS ARMORHOG® - CW Mill Equipment Co., Inc. 14 Commerce Drive BEST OF 2013 – PROCESSES & INNOVATION Sabetha, KS 66534 800/743-3491 - 785/284-3454 PalletOne Embraces Lean Manufacturing Fax: 785/284-2010 Email: [email protected] to Improve Its Butner Facility Website: www.armorhog.com ArmorHog® is focused on providing top quality, high By Chaille Brindley performance, custom made, long-life hammermill PalletOne Inc.’s Butner, N.C. plant follows the 5S lean manufacturing strategy, screens, tips, hammers, and other replacement parts which focuses on how best to organize a workspace for efficiency and effec- for all brands and models of industrial grinders. Tips are made using a unique blend of carbide called tiveness. The 5S phases are: sorting, set in order, systematic cleaning, standard- NitroGrit™, a proprietary blend of carbide found to best izing and sustaining. PalletOne added a 6th S in safety to its focus. suit grinding applications. The managers tackled its production lines as its initial effort. The idea was to Associated Auction & Liquidation Co. impact an area in the center of the plant and move outward so that everyone P.O. Box 147 realized this was more than just management’s latest little idea. Clarksburg, TN 38324 “Thanks to the lean process changes we are making a pallet a nickel cheaper 800/598-3651 - 731/986-4351 Fax: 731/986-4529 than we were a year ago,” said Howe Wallace, PalletOne’s president and CEO. Contact: Chuck Lepinski Supervisors took pictures of the work area before the project began so that Email: [email protected] they could demonstrate to others and remind themselves of the conditions before Website: www.associatedauctioncompany.com Specializing in Live Auctions, Live Internet Online Auc- and after the process. tions and Internet Only Auction methods of marketing. The entire line was analyzed to optimize the location of every item. Supervisors Sells all types of Machinery with a focus on Sawmill, make sure that only what is needed for the day’s work is placed near machines to Pallet mill, Forestry, and Transportations Equipment. reduce clutter, and anything that could be a safety concern or cause unneces- Automated Machine Systems, Inc. sary strain on workers was cleaned up. 6726 Roger Dr. They put nail gun stands near the workers and placed hoses on reels for easy Jenison, MI 49428 616/662-1309 - 877/267-8384 feeding and storage. Fans were moved from the floor to overhead and out of the Fax: 616/662-1310 way. Each machine received its own color-coded set of tools and a board to store Contact: Kris Chayer them, making it easy to tell if something was missing by a quick glance.