About Grand Rapids Pallet

Pallets matched to what West Michigan makes

West Michigan still builds things in mid-size plants: auto stampings and plastic parts in Wyoming and Kentwood, office furniture from Grand Rapids to Zeeland and Holland, food moving through the warehouses of Wyoming, Walker and Byron Center, and apples packed on the Fruit Ridge north of Walker. Each of those loads ships on its own kind of pallet. A 48x40 for grocery, a 48x45 for auto parts, a heat-treated skid with the HT mark for export, an odd-size build for a run of desks.

Grand Rapids Pallet matches the pallet to the load: which size, which build, which grade, new or used. It buys back sound Grade A and B stock, takes broken pallets as cores, and builds to a drawing when no stock size fits.

Who it is for

• Warehouse and dock managers who need a pallet size or grade on a schedule
• Plants with surplus or broken pallets to move
• Exporters who need a stamp on the wood
• Small businesses with a few pallets behind the building

Wood pallets only

The work is wood pallets and skids: new, used by grade, combo, custom and heat-treated. Pooled and rental pallets belong to the pooling company and are left out, and so are liquidation lots and craft pallets. Plastic and metal pallets are a different product.

Where

Kent, Ottawa and Muskegon counties, along the river and the roads beside it: from Lowell and Cascade through Grand Rapids, Wyoming and Walker to Jenison, Zeeland, Holland, Grand Haven and Muskegon, with Greenville and Fremont at the edges. See where we work.

Send the size, the grade and how often

That is most of a quote. Use the request page, or email info@grandrapidspallet.com with the same details and a photo of the stack. If the words are new, the FAQ and the guides start from vocabulary.

Where to start

Start with what you are doing. Buy covers used, new, custom, heat-treated and food-dock pallets, skids and truckloads. Sell covers a surplus stack, cores and a steady weekly buyback. Clear covers broken pallets, recycling and disposal.

For the pallet itself, sizes, builds and grades name every choice, and the cutting list tool writes up a custom size as a parts list. Guides answer the questions that come up before an order: trailer counts, the HT stamp, Canada, mould and moisture.

We use the trade's words the way the trade does. A skid is the plain pallet many plants call by that name. A GMA pallet is the 48x40 stringer pallet food runs on. A plug is a short board nailed beside a broken one, a plate is metal over a cracked stringer, HT is the heat-treatment mark, a core is a used pallet a dock no longer needs, and a combo is rebuilt from recycled and new lumber.

Not sure which one fits?

Send the request anyway and say what is on the dock. Buying, selling and clearing overlap, and we sort out which one it is from your size, grade and count.

Ready to ask? Send us the request.