Wooden Pallet Repair Services

Wooden pallets after few time usage would either be recycled or repaired. These two options are excellent points that promotes environmental awareness.

At Harvest, we offer pallet repair plan for you that allows the pallet life-cycle to continue even longer and help to reduce the impact on our environment. Whether you maintain your own pallet inventory or you take advantage of pallet pooling, Harvest, will repair your wooden pallets and save your business cost and resources

Heavy-Duty Wear and Tear

In the process of shipping and transportation, materials and equipment such as pallets usually bear the brunt of that wear and tear. When a wooden pallet enters the shipping stream, it travels to its destination either by ship, plane, or truck and will be transported through the yard and warehouse with forklifts and skid-lifters, then be stored in the warehouse and eventually unloaded of its goods with personnel handling. After unloaded, it is sent to a pallet storage area for pickup and return. Throughout this cycle, many pallets are affected and damaged.

Convenience and Cost-Savings

Damaged pallets can pose many risks to the safety of their loads as well as the people working with them. Decreased strength tolerances, sharp edges or missing hardware can cause accidents or injuries. It’s also important to ensure that pallets meet ISPM 15 requirements. Using Herwood Inc’s pallet repair service means that wood pallets can efficiently be repaired and returned into circulation; allowing convenient cost-savings to your business and ensuring the safety of both personnel and the goods being shipped.

Checklist of Typical Pallet Repairs

Here are some of the most typical repairs necessary to maintain the safety and performance standards of your pallets:

• Replace missing boards.
• Replace any and all deck boards, stringer boards or stringers that are broken across full width, height or thickness.
• Replace boards with tapered damage (splits that have broken off near the end)
• Replace boards with rectangular damage (pieces broken out)
• For block pallets, no wood may be missing in the butted connections, repair as necessary to maintain integrity.
• Tighten or replace any loose materials.
• Check for missing nails/fasteners.Replace or repair any metal plates, fasteners or other components that need it.
• Exposed fasteners, nails or other components must be made flush with the pallet exterior.
• Non-compliant components (for ISPM 15 pallets) replaced and repaired with heat treated wood and materials that meet current requirements.
• Repair twisted or warped pallets.