There’s Nothing as Environment-Friendly as Wood Pallets!

Many associate wood pallets to the merciless cutting down of acres of trees.

Rest assured, A&M Pallets--a leading and reliable name in the supply, manufacture, repair and retrieval of wood pallets in the Houston area—is guided by an environment friendly philosophy.

A&M Pallets regards trees as a priceless resource and when one tree is cut down, two more are planted. Currently there is 119% more standing timber in North America than there was in 1950. We staunchly believe in recycling, reconditioning and redistributing the wood we use.

The fact of the matter is that trees are not cut down to make pallets. The lumber used for pallets is a by product of the lumber used in the construction of houses and furniture. Any lumber that is not aesthetically acceptable for these purposes is used for pallets.

The life cycle of wood pallets is long. If a wood pallet is damaged, the first course of action is to repair it. This repairing and fixing is a consistently repeated process. Once a pallet’s life cycle is complete, it can be dismantled. The parts can be used to repair other pallets or to manufacture a pallet of recycled parts. If its parts are not usable, the pallet can be ground up for mulch, charcoal, or many types of fuel.

Pallets are one of the most recycled products in the United States.
In fact there is nothing as reusable like a wood pallet which can be repaired and recycled over and over again. Infact, a staggering 73% of wood pallets are recycled—this is how environment-friendly and green-conscious the pallet industry is!

So, waive away all those myths about wood pallets which have been gnawing at your mind. Opting for wood pallets from A&M Pallets will now give you peace of mind, free your conscience of guilt and even help you play a role in saving the environment.

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Standard Size Pallets at A&M Pallets

Almost 500 million new pallets are produced in North America every year, and almost 2 billion pallets are in use at any given time. The pallet has become the cornerstone of the entire materials handling industry, seamlessly uniting manufacturing, transport and distribution functions.

Even though A&M Pallets makes customized pallets for all needs and freight for the United States especially Houston, Texas, the purpose of a Uniform Standard for Wood Pallets is to establish nationally recognized minimum quality requirements for the principal types of wood pallets, and to provide a basis for common understanding among manufacturers, recyclers, distributors, and users of wood pallets.

Standardization is efficient and cost-effective as manufacturers can design cartons for optimum usage of space and the transport industry can see that different pallets sizes is a waste of  space, time and money. Standardization trims costs across all levels of industry, and from one country to the next.

The American industry, standard size wooden pallet is  48” x 40” or “4-way pallet" meaning the pallet has notches in the 2x4 so that it is accessible by forklift from all sides.

In North America pallets are most commonly used pallet is the Grocery Manufacturers' Association (GMA) pallet, which accounts for 30% of all new wood pallets produced in the United States. The ISO also recognizes the GMA pallet footprint as one of its six standard sizes.

The following are the pallet sizes used by the variegated industries in North America:

Dimensions (W × L) Industries Using

48” × 40” Grocery, Many Others
42” × 42” Telecom, Paint
48” × 48” Drums
40” × 48” Military, Cement
48” × 42” Chemical, Beverage
40” × 40” Dairy
48” × 45” Automotive
44” × 44” Drums, Chemical
36” × 36” Beverage
48” × 36” Beverage, Shingles, Paper

A&M Pallets is one company which provides a complete pallet solution to your business for the Houston, Texas area--from manufacture to repair as well as retrieval of standard and custom wooden pallets.

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Safety Measures when using Pallets

Pallets are the basic need for providing a sturdy foundation to a unit load used for handling and storing general, FDA, storage, chemical and export goods. The prevalence and use of pallets today has reached 1.8 billion across the United States.

However, when used with such frequency and enjoying such popularity, it is vital that safety measures be followed when handling and loading pallets to avoid a myriad of injuries ranging from puncture wounds to sprained ankles.

A&M Pallets—a leading and reliable name in the manufacturing, repairing and retrieval of wooden and chemical pallets in the Houston Texas area believes in sharing a few precautionary guidelines when handling pallets.

Primarily, when working in a warehouse where pallets are stacked or at a dock where goods are being handled, it is wise to use personal protective equipment such as gloves and safety shoes to avoid risk of puncture wounds, cuts or a pallet dropping on a foot.

Pallets should never be used as a man lift. Only engineered lift platforms operated by trained personnel should be used for transporting people to heights.

When pallets are positioned side by side in storage racks, workers usually step between or on pallets to access products at the back of the pallet. However, pallets are engineered to hold evenly distributed loads rather than weight focused under foot thus one should not stand on a pallet as it can cause breaking of a deck board or can result in a worker’s foot getting caught between deck boards. Depending upon design, some pallets of 9-leg design may be prone to tipping when empty. One way to avoid stepping on a pallet is to use a pick hook to reach product on the back of a pallet and pull it forward.

It is prudent to restrict the height of stacked pallets to 4 feet when stacking or unstacking them manually to facilitate easier pallet handling. A&M Pallets also recommends the use of mechanization which is specially designed to lift loads like a forklift or automated pallet dispenser to make handling pallets safer and efficient.

When manually moving a wood pallet off of a stack, it is a good idea to ensure that it will slide freely by tipping the pallet slightly to ensure that the pallet does not get caught on the pallet below by a protruding nail. It is better to carry out this task with assistance from a fellow worker. When lifting a pallet, keep vertical and close to the torso to maintain a close center of balance.

At A&M Pallets, we make sure that the work area is free of pallet debris and any broken pallet lumber is regularly swept up to avoid risk of sprained ankle or nail puncture wound. We exhort that you also set aside damaged or substandard pallets for repair or recycling.

A&M Pallets has been in the pallet management business in the Houston, Texas area for years and experience has taught us how cumbersome it is to make space for damaged and unused pallets. This is why A&M Pallets offers the facility to drop a trailer off at your facility, which you can use to store damaged or unneeded pallets. This simplifies pallet pick up, as the trailer facilitates wooden pallet disposal, wooden pallet recycling and wooden pallet repair. When full, the trailer will be picked up within 24 hours and we will pay you for all qualifying pallets that are removed from your facility.

The import and export industry cannot work without pallets and they are needed in every aspect of the supply chain; pallets are also indispensable for storage. Thus A&M Pallets sets an example of safe pallet management by following the basic precautionary measures when handling pallets and encouraging its clients to do the same so that risks to workers can be controlled.

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Wooden Crates at A&M Pallets

Wooden crates are ideal to transport or store large, heavy or awkward items. Originally from the Latin word used for baskets, the wooden crate may be generally referred to as a wooden box, yet for a wooden container to be a crate, all six of its sides must be put in place to result in the rated strength of the container. The strength of a wooden box is rated based on the weight it can carry before the top, ends, and sides are installed, whereas the strength of a crate is rated with the top in place.

May it be of wood, plastic, metal or other materials—a crate implies a large and strong container. Yet, the term 'crate' used alone often implies one constructed of wood.

There are many reasons why people opt for wooden crates to store their goods. One is that the purchase price of wooden crates is lower than for most other material which may offset some of the higher costs for the increase in volume when transporting. Wooden crates are also easy to produce and acquire and demands much lower investments in the manufacturing process due to simpler design. They are generally easy and efficient to produce with customer specified measurements.

The manufacturing process of nailing the boards together in a wooden crate makes opening the crate a tough job thus, decreasing the risk of unauthorized access to the goods. The relatively thick walls of wooden crates increase stacking possibilities as wood often exhibits a high tolerance for vertical pressure if evenly distributed. From open crates using lumber for sheathing, closed wooden crates enclosed with material such as plywood or lumber boards to wooden crates with skids—A&M Pallets deals in quality wooden crates.

A&M Pallets custom designs crates keeping in view the transportation methods and storage conditions of your goods and cargo making sure that it is protected from the different stresses like shock and vibration the goods are likely to experience in the transport chain.

A&M’s dedication to manufacture, repair and retrieve wooden pallets and wooden crates in the Houston area will allow us to help you determine the best item for your specific shipping, storage and handling requirements.

With emphasis to detail, quality and care, each wooden crate at A&M Pallets is durable and reliable. These are the very qualities which make them reusable and thus, a financially sound, labour-saving and environmentally friendly option.

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A&M Pallets: The Most Cost Effective!

A&M Pallets, an organization; where pallets are not only manufactured but they are sold, purchased and recycled. We operate in Houston, Texas markets proving ourselves as the unique and quality solutions provider to the need of wooden, plastic, heat treated or even re conditioned or recycled pallets.

There is a tirade of industries producing goods, specifically consumer goods and commercial ones. There is just a steep inclination in the variety of every little thing that is being manufactured. Too much is being produced, and consumed. This whole process, rosy and advantageous it may seem, but poses an ever increasing environmental threat. With the incline in the use of products and their manufacturing a lot of waste is produced in the form of chemical gases and the residue. Many industries indulge themselves wholeheartedly for environmental concerns and are religious about the philosophy of recycle however much needs to be done.

Residing and fully functioning in the arena of Houston, Texas A&M pallets believe and contribute to a greener environment by recycling the pallets and even purchasing the unwanted ones from you, and that too from your very own doorstep!

The reason A&M Pallets remains the first choice of our clients residing in the Houston, Texas area is that apart from social and environmental benefits, we offer clear economical benefits in terms of cost efficiency by inculcating effective and minimum wastage generation processes in the manufacturing procedures.

Due to reconditioning and recycling A&M benefits and reduces its material cost whose benefits we share with our clients by quoting prices which are extremely cost effective and satisfactory. This is something unique which is actually the reason why people around the Houston, TX area are driven to us.

Plus efficient systems of operations where there are less or no delays, and top quality material use in manufacturing leaves our clients at A&M pallets little choice to opt for anyone else for their pallet needs.

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Chemical Pallets for Houston

Chemical pallets were initially manufactured by the European Chemical and Plastics Industries to create harmony in industrial standards. Although developed specifically for loads and packages related to the Chemical industry, these chemical pallets have proved suitable for other cargo. Chemical pallets are used in an assortment of industries and have an exchange value in Europe at their “end of life” the supply chain.

Chemical pallets come in nine different sizes and are commonly known by their abbreviations as “CP-Pallets” and designated as CP-1, CP-2, etc. The most common CPs generated in North America are CP-3, CP-1, CP-2, CP-6, CP-9, and CP-8. 

American chemical companies usually transport their products in four primary types of packaging: drums -- both steel and other, supersacks, boxes, and bags.

Tests performed by experts of various companies and testing institutes and the use and reuse of large quantities of Chemical Pallets have revealed that they conform to the needs of the chemical industry and their customers.

A&M Pallets deals in the sale and purchase of Chemical Pallets which correspond to all aspects of quality, safety and environment friendliness. We provide a pick-up service for used Chemical Pallets, wooden pallets, plastic pallets in the Houston area and offer a worthwhile price for it. 

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What Use is a Used Pallet?

Leave a person on a remote island and he will make use of the limited resources available to him and hunt for food and shelter. The human mind is astute in using basic materials and forming them into unique things; the human imagination knows no bounds and can take the simplest of things like a pallet and shape it into an extraordinary piece of art or cobble it beautifully into an indispensible and useful commodity.

A wooden pallet is basically used to ship and support transported goods, yet once it has been used for this elementary purpose one wonders what happens to such pallets. In this age of thriving trade and commerce, are these pallets used once and then discarded unfeelingly?

Environmentally responsible enterprises make sure that used pallets are reused and recycled. A&M Pallets knows the worth of every pallet. This is the reason we are ready and eager to retrieve and buy used pallets and repair them.

There is so much an old wooden pallet can be good for.

Used, yet sturdy, wooden pallets have been crafted into book shelves and patio tables; swings, benches and sundecks. From quaint fences to walkways in your little garden; from signs to headboards for your bed, from pet beds to bird houses—there is scope for a wooden pallet to become so much more and live on.

With the green philosophy of A&M Pallets, you can rest assured that your used pallets are in safe hands and are resourcefully being put to beneficial use.

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