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A comparative study of Refurbished and Remanufactured pallets

There's nothing quite like the smell of fresh timber and your goods certainly look good on those clean new pallets, but with timber costs increasing dramatically, it is certainly time to be looking at alternatives. It is easy to find remanufactured and refurbished pallets for sale at attractive prices but are they as good as new ones and what do "refurbished" and "remanufactured" actually mean? Refurbished pallets for sale Before a refurbished pallet can be sold, the law requires it to have been professionally assessed, repaired if necessary and then retreated in accordance with the same standards as a new pallet. Some people call these pallets "recycled" but that can be a misleading term: recycled paper, for example, has been completely degraded and remanufactured and never has the same qualities as new paper but a recycled pallet has simply been restored to a condition almost as good as new. In practice, they are often graded "A" whe