Wayne Pallets, Inc

For more than 60 years, Wayne Pallets has been a trusted supplier of quality wood packaging and related services for customers around the world. We provide our customers with quality products, fast and reliable service, and new product innovation and design, but with the attention to detail and level of service that only a small family-owned company can deliver.

Wayne Pallets, Inc. was founded in 1951 by Roy Wayne. Wayne Pallets was originally named Durand Woodworking and was located in Durand, Wisconsin. In the winter of 1968 Roy started construction on a new facility. Soon after completion he moved his large family and woodworking company to Downsville, Wisconsin. There he renamed the company Wayne Pallets, Inc.

For much of the company's life there have been multiple family members working at Wayne Pallets. Roy Wayne is now retired and his eldest son, Larry Wayne, who was the president of the company for over 10 years, is now the owner. Larry has been hands on since a young age, building pallets, fixing machines and filling in where he was needed. Larry still divides his time between the shop floor and the office, because of this he definitely knows the ins and outs of the industry! Larry's daughter, Lindsay Little, was very active with the company from 1992, and even up until a few years ago would help out in the office with what needed to be done. Larry's youngest son Tony Wayne had also been employed at Wayne Pallets, Inc off and on since 2001, helping with the safety aspect of the business. More recently Larry's daughter-in-law Mary Wayne has been helping with office work and keeping the shop looking its best. Wayne Pallets, Inc. is truly family owned and operated! 

The current facility employs around 20 people. These employees run the automated, and constantly growing sawmill division, along with all the automated equipment in the pallet shop. 

Recently Wayne Pallets, Inc. has done some remodeling in the sawmill portion to create a better workflow to cut down on costs. The addition of a Scragg mill means that Wayne Pallets can cut logs into cants for pallet making, thus bringing down the outside cost of buying material which can then be passed onto our customers.

Wayne Pallets, Inc. services customers mainly in the Midwest, but also offers a full range of products and services to customers all across the United States.

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Glossary of Terms

butted deckboard - an inner deckboard placed tightly against an adjacent lead deckboard during pallet assembly to reduce damage to the unit load caused when fork trucks mishandle the pallet

bottom deck - assembly of deckboards comprising the lower, load-bearing surface of the pallet

chamfered deckboard - a deckboard with the edges of one or two faces beveled, either along the full or specified length of board or between the stringers or blocks, facilitating entry of pallet-jack wheels and tines of forklift trucks

deck - top or bottom surface of the pallet, consisting of one or more boards or panels, with or without space between the elements

deck mat - the assembly of deckboards and stringerboards or a solid sheet of material, forming the deck of a block pallet

deckboard - a single element or component of a pallet deck, oriented perpendicular to the stringer or stringerboard

Wing Palletdeckboard spacing - the distance between adjacent deckboards

double-deck pallet - a pallet with both top and bottom decks

double-wing pallet - a pallet with top and bottom deckboards or decks extending beyond the edges of the stringers or stringerboards

fastener - a device for connecting pallet components such as nails, staples, screws, bolts, lag bolts, adhesives and welds

four-way block pallet - a pallet with openings at both opposite pallet ends and sides sufficient to admit hand-pallet jacks; full four-way entry pallet

hand (wheel) jack opening - the aperture provided in the pallet bottom deck to allow pallet jack wheels to bear on the ground; window

hardwood - a wood from broad-leaved tree species (not necessarily hard in texture or dense)

inner deckboard - any deckboard located between the end deckboards; interior deckboard

length - refers to the stringer or stringerboard length; also refers to the first dimension given to describe a pallet, i.e, 48' x 40', where 48' is the pallet stringer or stringerboard length

Single Face Palletlimited-use pallet - a pallet designed for an average of up to nine trips, with an average of five handlings per trip in an average environment; single-trip pallet; one-trip pallet; one-way pallet; expendable pallet; shipping pallet

multiple-use pallet - a pallet designed for repeated uses for more than one unit load with an average minimum life-to-first repair of ten trips or more, with an average of five handlings per trip in an average handling environment; multiple-trip pallet; returnable pallet; reusable pallet; warehouse pallet; permanent pallet; general-purpose pallet; special-service pallet; through-transit pallet

non-reversible pallet - a pallet with a dissimilar top and bottom deck configuration or without a bottom deck

notch - filleted cutout in lower portion of the stringer to allow entry for the fork tine, usually 9' in length and 1-1/4' to 1-1/2' in height.

notched stringer - a stringer with two or more notches spaced for fork-tine entry (partial four-way entry)

opening height - the vertical dimension measured between decks, from the floor to the underside of the top deck, or from the floor to the top of the stringer notch

Full Reversible Palletoverall height - the vertical dimension measured from the pallet bottom to the pallet top

overhang - the distance the deck or deckboard extends from the outer face of the outer pallet stringer, stringerboard, or block; wing; lip; cantilever; distance the unit load extends beyond the deck

pallet - a portable, horizontal, rigid, composite platform used as a base for assembling, storing, stacking, handling, and transporting goods as a unit load, often equipped with a superstructure

pallet size - overall dimension of a pallet stated in terms of length followed by width and height; for example, a 48' x 40' pallet is 48' long and 40' wide; has 48' stringers or stringerboards and 40' deckboards

pallet life - the period during which the pallet remains useful under given maintenance conditions, expressed in units of time or in the number of one-way movements of the pallet

panel-deck pallet - pallet constructed with composite or structural panel deck or decks

partial four-way stringer pallet - a stringer pallet with notched stringers and block pallet with overlapping bottom stringerboard and deckboards

Block Palletreversible pallet - a pallet with identical or similar top and bottom decks, to allow either one to support the unit load

single-wing pallet - a pallet with the top deckboards or deck extending beyond the outer edge of the stringers or stringerboards and with the bottom deckboards or deck, if any, flush with the outer edges of the stringers or stringerboards

skid - a pallet without bottom deckboards or deck

slave pallet - rigid pallet or platform; single, thick panel used as a support base for a palletized load in warehouse rack-storage facilities or production systems

softwood - wood from coniferous or needlebearing species of trees (not necessarily soft in texture or of low density)

solid deck pallet - a pallet constructed of a single or multiple components without space between the deckboards or components (see panel deck pallet)

span - the distance between supports

Standard Palletstrap sIot - recess or cutout in the upper edge of the stringer or the top or bottom pallet deck, designed to allow tie-down of a unit load to the pallet deck with strapping or banding; strap notch; banding notch

stringer - continuous, longitudinal, solid or notched beam-component of the pallet used to support and space the deck components, often identified by location as the outside, interior, or center stringer; bearer; runner

stringerboard - in block pallets, the continuous, solid board member extending for the full length of the pallet, perpendicular to the deckboard and placed between the deckboards and blocks, to serve as Support of deckboards or deck

top-deck of pallet - the assembly of components comprising the upper load-carrying pallet face

two-way entry pallet - a pallet with unnotched solid stringers allowing entry only from the two opposite pallet ends; a pallet without notches in stringers

wing - overhang of deckboard or deck end from the outside edge of the stringer or stringerboard, to increase unit-load area, to add pallet load-bearing capacity, to reduce deckboard-end splitting by fasteners, and to facilitate the lifting of a pallet with bar slings hanging from a crane

 Our products include new wood pallets, wood shipping crates, cut stock, grade lumber, crating lumber, sawdust, bark, and wood chips. Our services include maintenance of pallet inventory for customers, fast delivery, pallet design, and heat treating pallets to meet ISPM 15 regulations. Our product offerings and top flight service allows us to meet your needs quickly and efficiently.