John Rock Inc. one of the five largest pallet firms in the U.S., will see $2 million in new machinery go in over the next 90 days, spurred by the 2018 tax cut.

The National Wooden Pallet & Container Association earned USDA Certified Biobased Product status for wood pallet manufacturers that use its Pallet Design System. The label shows the pallets to be 100-percent biobased products, and federal agencies are required to buy them.

European wood manufacturers say that after the excellent annual result in 2015 with an increase of 10.9% and in total over 100m EPAL pallets, 73.6m of which were newly produced EPAL Euro pallets, the upward trend is continuing in the first quarter of 2016.

The European Pallet Association says it has made a major breakthrough in the battle against wood counterfeiters of EPAL Euro pallets.

A pallet wood ball scorched using shou sugi ban won in the 2016 Winter Stations, a competition that challenges designers to reimagine Toronto's lifeguard stations. Now in its second year, organizers include members of RAW Design Architects and Ferris + Associates Landscape Architects, the City of Toronto, and Curio Art Consultants.

Sunbelt Forest Products subsidiary of wood products firm PalletOne, Inc., has announced the purchase of two pressure treated wood facilities from Southeast Wood Treating of Montgomery, Alabama.

The European Pallet Association e. V. (EPAL) has recorded a production of 66.3 million of EPAL euro pallets in 2014 which means a growth of 3% compared to the prior year.

63.5 million EPAL Euro pallets have been produced in twelve months under the licence of the European Pallet Association (EPAL). The number of repaired wooden pallets stands at 21.5 million.

Global sales of pallets are projected to climb 5.0 percent annually through 2017 to 5.1 billion units, an acceleration from the relatively sluggish pace of the 2007-2012 period.

Sales of new and refurbished pallets will expand 3.5 percent per year through 2017 to 1.3 billion units, valued at $16.9 billion, says a new study by The Freedonia Group Inc., a Cleveland-based industry market research firm.