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Marshall White on the state of pallets: Modern Materials Handling discusses worldwide pallet usage trends with the director of the Center for Unit Load Design at Virginia Tech.(TECHNOLOGY UPDATE)(Interview)
Material Handling Product News, May, 2006
AS THE WORLD BECOMES SMALLER and more pallets of products cross the globe, where does this critical component of domestic and international shipping currently stand? And what does the future hold for pallets?
To answer these questions, Modern Materials Handling spoke with Marshall S. White, Ph.D., the director of the Center for Unit Load Design at Virginia Tech (540-231-7134, www.unitload.vt.edu). White is also the head of the United States delegation to the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) TC51 Committee on International Pallet Standards and chairs the American Society of Mechanical Engineers MH1 Committee on Pallet & Container Standards.
MODERN: With the variety of pallet sizes in use around the world, how can shippers and...
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