The humble wooden shipping pallet is probably not something that most people think about too much. But it's a huge deal. At Virginia Tech, there's a whole center that focuses on pallets and packaging.

Furniture retailer Ikea just announced plans to swap out wooden shipping pallets in favor of new lightweight cardboard pallets – and although this isn’t a change that customers will be able to see, ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- After nearly 15 months of living through a pandemic, we're getting use to the fact that sometimes there are shortages in the supply chain. Probably the most notorious was the ...

Love it or hate it, furniture made using wooden shipping pallets is a seemingly enduring fad. Some people love a DIY wooden pallet table’s low cost and humble lines. Others find pallet furniture ...

Here's a little secret about building furniture out of pallets, those simple wooden structures used to schlep goods: Not all pallet wood is cheap, rough-cut pine. Sharp-eyed scroungers can find oak, ...

There are great simple DIY projects you can do with shipping pallets, but where do you get them without spending a ton of cash? Our friends at Old World Garden Farms have some suggestions. You can ...

Making furniture from wood pallets is trending nowadays and very cheap. Pallets have been around for decades as mechanisms ...

After carrying the weight of the global economy since World War II with little fanfare, the lowly shipping pallet is finally commanding some respect. Demand for the platforms used to haul nearly every ...

Typically used when shipping large items, wooden pallets (sometimes called skids) also make for great DIY projects as their sturdy wood can be broken down and repurposed in numerous ways. Depending on ...

When Dutch advertising and brand activation agency Brandbase relocated to the concentric canal city last year they made their temporary office’s interiors from simple wooden shipping pallets that they ...