Philip Araman (parman@vt.edu) writes: >I'm new at this mail mode and hope that this gets to you. We have been >conducting pallet recylying research for over three years. The following is >a list of our pubs to date. >1. Repair & Reinforcing Pallet Stringers with Metal Plates, Pallet >Enterprise, November/December 1992 >2. Evaluation of Metal Connector Plates for Repair of Wood Pallet >Stringers, Forest Products Journal, October 1993 >3. Reinforcement of Wood Pallets with Metal Connector Plates, Forest >Products Journal, October 1993 >4. Metal Plates for Pallet Repair, NWPCA PALLET TALK >5. Combat Oak Shortage Problems Using Fortified Stringers, NWPCA PALLET >TALK, May 1993 >6. Recycling in the U.S. Pallet Industry: 1993, Report from the Center for >Forest Products Marketing, Virginia Tech, September 1994. >7. The Use of New and Recycled Wood Materials by the Pallet Industry, >Pallet Enterprise, October 1994. >8. Economics of Grading and Sorting Pallet Parts, Forest Products Journal, >November/December 1993 >9. Application of Ultrasound NDE to Grading Pallet Parts, Proceedings >Nondestructive Testing of Wood Symposium, September 1993 >10. Ultrasound Inspection of Wooden Pallet Parts for Grading and Sorting, >Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, 1994 > >Our research is a team effort of Forest Service(SE Station) and Va Tech >people. >We estimate that 1.24 billion board feet of pallets were recycled in 1993. >85-90% of that went back out as pallets. >California is a strange state and I think that your reading is not correct. >They ship a tremendous amount of agricultural products to other states on >pallets ---- that is why they don't recycle those pallets. Currently they >come east and we are recycling many of them. Give me a call at 703-231-5341 >Phil Araman, USFS, SEFES, Brooks Center, VA Tech, Blacksburg, VA > David South School of Forestry Auburn University, AL 36849-5418 dsouth@forestry.auburn.edu 205-844-1022 205-844-1084 (FAX)
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