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Specification

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Choosing the right pallet for the load, the rack and the machine that handles it.

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The open rear of a trailer packed with mixed recovered pallets — whitewood, blue CHEP, red and black plastic units — stacked to the roof. — Mixed cores coming back in. Pooled units are separated at receiving, not discovered at the grinder.

An aisle inside the Evendale warehouse, lined with banded stacks of recycled wood pallets carrying lot tags, alongside stacks of black and blue plastic pallets. — Graded stock, banded and lot-tagged. A, B and #2 are held apart so what leaves the yard is what arrives at your dock.

01Softwood is not a downgradeWe sell mostly hardwood and we will still tell you when pine is the better specification. It happens more often than the industry admits.13 January 2026
02Pallet specification for a plant you have not built yetBy the time somebody asks us what pallet to use, the steel is usually ordered. It is the cheapest decision in the project and it gets made last.4 November 2025
03Designing a pallet for a robot instead of a forkliftA forklift operator sees a pallet leaning and adjusts. An autonomous mobile robot sees a valid pick location and drives into it.1 July 2025
04Bulk bags, slump, and why 48×48 existsA one-tonne bag is not a box. It is a flexible container that changes shape under its own weight, and it will find the edge of your pallet.20 May 2025
05Automated warehouses and the quarter-inch that stops a lineA forklift driver compensates for a bad pallet without noticing. A shuttle system does not compensate for anything.25 February 2025
06Moisture content, warehouse humidity, and the pallets that shrankA customer told us their brand-new pallets were falling apart while our recycled ones were fine. They were right, and the reason is water.4 February 2025
07Nail schedules: the spec nobody reads and everybody blamesWhen a deck board comes off in month two, people blame the wood. It is almost always the nail.26 November 2024
08The 30% rule: overhang, and why your cases crushAn inch of overhang looks like nothing. It is the difference between a stack that arrives and a stack that arrives crushed.24 September 2024
09The freezer problem: pallets below zeroCold does not weaken wood. It makes it brittle, which is a different problem and a worse one on a busy dock.21 May 2024
10Stretch wrap is doing more work than your palletWhen a load arrives leaning, the pallet gets blamed. In our experience it is almost never the pallet.30 April 2024
11Why your pallets keep failing in the third rack positionA customer called us out to look at four broken pallets. All four had failed in the same rack bay, at the same height, along the same stringer. That is never a coincidence.18 January 2024