About Pallets LLC
20 years of designing custom pallet solutions for America's most demanding manufacturing and logistics operations.
WHO WE ARE - At Pallets LLC
Pallets LLC has been in business for 20 years. During the past decade, we've been in hundreds of manufacturing plants throughout the US, and we've studied the various procedures within these plants that use different racking systems, conveyor belts, storage facilities, and manufacturing processes. Some plants are much more mechanized than others, and each plant has unique needs. What we've excelled at is designing pallets for those unique needs.
We are proud members of WoodPack Global (formerly the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association) and the Western Pallet Association.
Protecting America's Forests
The wood pallet is the workhorse of the U.S. supply chain. Most products manufactured in the U.S. are transported by pallet. Every year approximately two billion pallets are circulated in the United States. The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) pallet, which accounts for more than 30 percent of U.S. pallet use and represents more than 280 million new pallets annually, is a wood-intensive, expensive, and heavy 48 inches by 40 inches. For the past 70 years, wood has been the preferred material choice of pallet suppliers. Even today, more than 90% of all the pallets in use are made of wood due to relatively cheap production costs and widespread availability. These raw material costs usually run above 50% for many pallet manufacturers.
Most of the one billion acres of virgin forest that once stretched across America are now gone. Originally, forests in the U.S. were filled with the spectacular trees, some rising as tall as a 1940's forty-story high skyscraper. Unfortunately, only about 5% of America's native forests remain. Forests across the United States help to reduce the effects of climate change. Forests remove the carbon from our atmosphere by absorbing it in wood, leaves, and soil. The carbon is then stored in the ecosystem of the forest. Currently, the planet's forest ecosystem is estimated to store more carbon than the Earth's atmosphere itself. But in 2022, wood pallets and wood shipping containers accounted for more than 40% of all the hardwoods cut down in the United States.
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Every facility handles pallets a little differently. Load weight, product shape, storage systems, and shipping methods all influence which pallet design will work best.
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