WOOD PRODUCTS
LEFCO Worthington offers a complete portfolio of wood crating products to satisfy your domestic and international packaging requirements. We produce crates in small or large quantities, meeting standard or custom engineered specifications, and for heavy duty or highly sensitive requirements. Our purchasing strategy of buying directly from mills and passing on the savings to our customers allows for us to realize a sustainable competitive advantage.
LEFCO is an experienced producer of wood crates, boxes, pallets, skids, and other wooden applications. If you have specific dimensional tolerance requirements, specialty lumber needs, or strict appearance requirements, we can handle it! We have the experience that comes from satisfying large Fortune 500 companies, various government branches, or middle market and small businesses; from markets including Aerospace to Transportation to Defense.
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INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
The domestic pallet and wood container market is a $7 billion industry consisting of over 3,000 companies and employing over 50,000. Virginia Tech University estimates the new pallet market at 500 million units, with an estimated 300 million of used pallets in service. High supply chain costs and JIT expectations have forced the regionalism of the industry.
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
annular nail - pallet nail with annular (circular ring) threads rolled onto the shank
bin - four-sided superstructure to be mounted on a pallet base, with or without a cover; also known as a box or container bin pallet
block - rectangular, square or cylindrical deck spacer, often identified by its location within the pallet
LEFCO Worthington recycles 100% of its scrap lumber
