ABSTRACT

Pallets move the world. In the United States, an estimated 4 billion pallets are in daily service. Nationwide, on an annual basis, an estimated 441 million new pallets are manufactured and 357 million pallets are repaired or rebuilt from discarded pallets (Buehlmann, Philip, Bush, 2010). In China, about 910 million pallets are in daily service and 50 million new pallets are manufactured (Jin, 2014). In Inner Mongolia, there is not a pallets manufacture, while pallets have been used in warehouse and transportation.