Written rejection criteria, posted
Mounted at both grading stations since 2011. Reproduced in full on this site so you can hold us to them or copy them into your own receiving spec.
Cincinnati, Ohio · Since 2009Wood does not
Wood does not
end. It returns.
We buy, repair, sell, haul and recycle used pallets — and everything that can be made from them afterwards. Ninety-six percent of the timber that arrives at our Evendale yard leaves it still doing the job it was milled for.
Tell us what you move
One form, one business day, one written answer with pricing, freight and piece counts broken out separately. We have no phone line — which is exactly why our written quotes are unusually thorough.
What we do
Nine ways we move wood for you
Most operations use four vendors to do what one closed loop should: somebody to supply, somebody to haul away, somebody to repair, and somebody nobody remembers hiring. Every service below exists so you can stop doing that.
- 01Buy Used PalletsGraded recycled stock delivered by the trailer load, anywhere within 250 miles of Cincinnati.Open →
- 02Sell Us Your PalletsWe buy cores by the load, pay per piece and sweep your dock for free.Open →
- 03Pallet RecyclingZero-landfill dismantling, remanufacturing and fibre recovery for broken wood.Open →
- 04Pallet RepairBench repair and remanufacture back to GMA #1 and #2 specification.Open →
- 05Pallet RetrievalScheduled trailer swaps and on-call pickups that keep your dock doors clear.Open →
- 06Freight & LogisticsOur own dry vans and flatbeds, plus a vetted carrier bench for surge weeks.Open →
- 07Custom Pallet BuildsCut-to-print decks, skids and heavy-duty bases in runs from 25 to 25,000.Open →
- 08Pallet Management ProgramsOne vendor, one invoice, a fully closed loop across every plant you run.Open →
- 09Mulch & BiomassColoured landscape mulch, animal bedding and boiler fuel from the last 3%.Open →
The cascade
Recycling is not one thing. It is an order of things.
Grinding wood is fast, easy to sell and destroys roughly ninety percent of the value locked in a pallet. Every stage we can delay the grinder by is a stage a board keeps doing what it was milled for.
See the full line, step by step01
Reuse
55%Inspected, graded, banded and shipped. No tools touched it, no energy spent on it.
02
Repair
27%One stringer or two boards replaced at a bench with harvested lumber. Back to #1 or #2 grade.
03
Harvest
9%Frame beyond saving, lumber is not. Boards stripped, de-nailed, stacked as repair stock.
04
Remanufacture
5%Recovered components rebuilt on a jig into a smaller footprint. This is how odd sizes stay affordable.
05
Fibre
3%Ground, double magnet-separated, screened into landscape mulch, animal bedding and boiler fuel.
06
Landfill
<1%Contaminated units and non-wood debris only — reported to you by weight rather than quietly absorbed.
Our signature tool
The Reclaim Meter
Move the slider to your monthly volume and watch what a closed loop is actually worth — in carbon, in timber, in trees and in landfill space. Every constant is published, so you can argue with our arithmetic rather than take our word for it.
Are these replacing newly built pallets?
636.9tCO₂e kept out of the air, per yearCarbon retained in reused wood, plus the manufacturing emissions of the new pallets you did not buy.
604,800lbWood diverted from landfillWeight of pallet timber that re-enters service or the fibre stream instead of being buried.
161,280bfVirgin lumber displacedBoard feet of new timber that did not need to be milled to do the same job.
806Sawlog trees left standingAt roughly 200 pallet-grade board feet recovered from one mature tree.
3,557yd³Landfill volume avoidedLoose volume these pallets would have occupied in a cell.
28,800lbSteel nails recoveredMagnetically separated and baled to regional scrap processors.
Equivalent to taking 138 average US passenger vehicles off the road for a year. Every constant used here is published on our carbon methodology page so you — or your auditor — can check the arithmetic rather than trust it.
Catalogue
Everything we grade, build and ship
From a #2 economy stringer that will carry scrap across a yard to a jig-built export crate with a kiln record attached to it. Same yard, same graders, same written specification.
Most ordered
Recycled Pallets
A, B and #2 grade hardwood, inspected board by board.
View Built to orderNew Pallets
Built to print when reuse genuinely will not do.
View In stockGMA 48x40 Pallets
The North American standard, always in stock.
View Made to specCustom Size Pallets
Forty-plus footprints, plus anything you draw.
View ExportHeat-Treated ISPM-15
Kiln-stamped and compliant for export.
View ReusablePlastic Pallets
Reconditioned and new rackable, nestable and hygienic.
View Add-onsPallet Accessories
Collars, caps, slip sheets, top frames and corner board.
View ContainersCrates & Wooden Boxes
Reusable shipping containers and one-way crates.
View Studio lineUpcycled Goods
Furniture, planters and retail fixtures from retired wood.
ViewThe Board Atlas
Every footprint, drawn to true scale
Pallet size charts are tables of numbers that nobody can picture. Ours draws the footprint in your browser, ghosts a 48×40 GMA underneath it for comparison, and shows you the stringers, the notches and a fork tine at the same scale. Switch to millimetres if that is the language your drawing speaks.
40+Footprints held in rotating inventory
±¼″Dimensional tolerance on jig-built stock
25Minimum units on a custom production run
5–7dPrototype on your dock for load testing
The greenest pallet in the world is the one already standing in your yard.
We are not in the business of telling you to buy more. We are in the business of making sure the wood you already own does four more trips before anybody thinks about a saw.
That is why our quotes break freight out separately, why we tell you when a new build is genuinely the right answer, and why we publish our carbon arithmetic instead of rounding it upward. Seventeen years in, the customers who stayed are the ones who checked.
Where we run
Eight markets on company equipment
Transport is the dominant emissions cost in a recycled pallet’s life, which is why we would rather be genuinely good inside 250 miles than nominally national.
Cincinnati, OHHome yard — Same-day and next-day, daily routesDayton, OH54 mi · 55 minutes — Twice weekly standing routesColumbus, OH107 mi · 1 hour 50 minutes — Weekly full-load routes, more on demandLouisville, KY101 mi · 1 hour 40 minutes — Weekly standing routesLexington, KY83 mi · 1 hour 20 minutes — Weekly, with bedding backhaulIndianapolis, IN112 mi · 1 hour 50 minutes — Weekly full-load routesNorthern Kentucky, KY15 mi · 25 minutes — Same-day and next-day, dailyMiddletown & Hamilton, OH28 mi · 35 minutes — Twice weekly standing routes
Field notes
Written by people who grade pallets
No gated whitepapers and no lead-capture walls. If it is useful, it is on the page.
Standard · 8 min
Pallet Grades Explained
A, B, #1 and #2 — what each grade permits, what it rejects, and which one your application needs.
Read Compliance · 9 minISPM-15 Export Guide
Heat treatment, the IPPC wheat stamp, country requirements and the failure modes that strand containers.
Read Specification · 7 minHardwood vs Softwood Pallets
Oak, maple, poplar, pine and spruce compared on strength, weight, cost and service life.
Read Specification · 7 minStringer vs Block Pallets
Two construction philosophies, two handling behaviours, and how to tell which one you actually need.
Read Economics · 9 minBuying vs Renting Pallets
Owned whitewood, pooled rental and one-way programmes compared on real total cost.
Read Engineering · 10 minPallet Load Capacity
Static, dynamic and racked ratings, creep, overhang penalties and how to specify without guessing.
ReadCome and look
10400 Evendale Dr, Cincinnati
The yard is open to customers Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and Saturday mornings. Walk the stacks, pick up your own bundle, or just see how a grading line actually works.
Nine things you will not find at most pallet yards
The rejection percentage on your grade sheet
A lot with zero rejections was sorted, not graded. We print the number we pulled.
Freight as a separate line, always
A combined unit price hides the only cost you can actually change.
A published operating record
Twelve months of measured intake, moisture, grading outcomes and recovery streams. Almost none of it exists anywhere else.
Constants we have revised downward
Two, after customers' consultants challenged them. A methodology that only improves is not being checked.
No metal plates, inbound or outbound
Fast, cheap, and it puts a hard steel edge into a structure that will be handled thousands of times.
No tooling charges on custom work
The jig is ours to build and yours to use for as long as the account is active. If you leave, we send you the drawing.
We will tell you to buy less
Grade right-sizing costs us margin and it is the reason most of our accounts are repeat accounts.
No phone line
Removed in 2016 because every serious dispute in seven years was a verbal agreement remembered two ways. Everything here happens in writing.
A year at Evendale, in numbers
Measured, not estimated. Everything below was counted on our intake belt, weighed on our scale house or logged by our route desk between September 2025 and August 2026, and the full record is published.
| Measure | Twelve months to August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Pallets across the weighbridge | 1,416,400 |
| Trailer movements dispatched | 5,965 |
| Mean direct reuse, no tool used | 55.5% |
| Sent to a repair bench | 27.0% |
| Dismantled for board harvest | 9.1% |
| Remanufactured into another footprint | 5.2% |
| Recovered as fibre products | 2.9% |
| To licensed disposal | 0.5% |
| Ferrous baled and sold to scrap processors | 1,186 tons |
| Mean backhaul rate | 78.2% |
| Mean inbound moisture content | 17.1% |
| Wettest month | April, at 22.1% |
| Best month for direct reuse | July, at 59.1% |
| Worst month for direct reuse | April, at 51.4% |
| Most common rejection reason | Cracked stringer, 34.2% of all rejections |
| Most common repair | One or two deck boards, 48.6% of all repairs |
| Dominant footprint in intake | 48 × 40 GMA, 71.3% |
| Dominant species in intake | Red and white oak, 38.4% |