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Millwood Lab technician inspecting a stretch wrapped unit load on a turntable stretch wrapper as part of end of line packaging maintenance for a customer.

Total Unit Load Maintenance: Extending the Life of Your Packaging

Learn how total unit load maintenance keeps stretch wrappers, conveyors and other end of line packaging systems building stable, consistent loads.

Warehouse Team Members inside a trailer organizing wooden dunnage boards between palletized loads, demonstrating how careful arrangement is required to fill gaps, prevent lateral movement and protect products during transit.

The Complete Guide to Dunnage: What It Is, Why It Matters and How It Protects Your Supply Chain

Dunnage matters more than most people think. In fact, most people haven’t even heard of dunnage. And yet, getting dunnage right can pay huge dividends

Stacked dimensional lumber in a Millwood industrial packaging facility showing the cross-sections of boards at various nominal lumber sizes, where the actual lumber dimensions after kiln drying and surfacing are visibly smaller than the nominal labels used to classify them.

Lumber Sizes: What Nominal vs Actual Means for Packaging

If you’ve ever wondered about discrepancies in lumber sizes, you may be bumping into the issue of nominal vs actual lumber dimensions.

Pallets of packaged food and beverage products organized in a distribution center, illustrating strategic sourcing and vendor consolidation in food and beverage supply chains.

5 Ways Strategic Sourcing Strengthens Food and Beverage Supply Chains

Discover 5 ways strategic sourcing strengthens food and beverage supply chains, from cost savings to risk reduction and sustainability.

48×40 wood block pallet with nine-block construction providing four-way forklift entry, used to meet Costco pallet requirements.

Costco Pallets and the Retailer Trend: Why Block Pallets Satisfy Compliance Requirements

Learn why Costco requires block pallets for delivery, what their requirements mean for your operation and how to source compliant pallets at scale.

Warehouse workers in a loading operation featuring a combination of wooden pallets with bottom deck boards and wooden skids without bottom deck boards.

What Is a Skid? Understanding the Skid vs Pallet Difference – and Why It Matters

What is a skid? Learn how the bottom deck board separates skids from pallets and discover why the right platform choice protects your operations.

Robotic crane retrieving a palletized load from high-density vertical racking inside an automated storage and retrieval system warehouse.

ASRS Pallets: What Automation Demands from Your Pallet Program

ASRS pallets require ±1/4″ tolerances, block pallet construction and racking load performance. Learn how Millwood can partner with your operation to integrate them smoothly across

Robotic palletizer stacking product onto wood pallets inside an automated distribution center demonstrating supply chain automation in action.

Supply Chain Automation: What It Means for Your Pallet Decisions

The smallest mistake in supply chain automation can have massive consequences. Discover how to minimize these mistakes to move forward.

Organized warehouse with optimized pallet stacks demonstrating sustainable supply chain management through strategic sourcing and vendor consolidation.

Sustainable Supply Chain Management as an Advantage of Strategic Sourcing

Learn how vendor consolidation drives sustainable supply chain management by reducing waste, strengthening ESG reporting and enabling science-backed innovation.

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