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PalletCentral • January-February 2021 9 NWPCA Staff President/CEO Brent J. McClendon, CAE, brent@palletcentral.com Vice President, Advocacy and External Affairs Patrick S. Atagi, patagi@palletcentral.com Senior Director, Business Partnerships Mark A. Barford, CAE, mbarford@palletcentral.com PDS and Membership Services Manager Susan Cheney, scheney@palletcentral.com PDS Structural Engineer Kristen DeLack PE, kdelack@palletcentral.com Vice President, Communications Annette Ferri, aferri@palletcentral.com Director of Science and Technology Integration Brad Gething, PhD, bgething@palletcentral.com Manager, Policy and Public Affairs Grace Johnson, gjohnson@palletcentral.com Advisor to the President John A. McLeod III, jmcleod@palletcentral.com PDS Software Engineer Kevin Richey, krichey@palletcentral.com PDS Associate Software Engineer George Scharps, gscharps@palletcentral.com PDS Finite Element Analyst Farhad Shahabi, PhD, fshahabi@palletcentral.com Vice President, Operations and Events Isabel ("Mimi") Sullivan, msullivan@palletcentral.com PalletCentral Editorial, Design & Production: Driven By Design LLC Editor and Art Director: Caryn Smith, palletdesign@comcast.net PALLETCENTRAL, Volume 21, Number 1. PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL WOODEN PALLET & CONTAINER ASSOCIATION Advertising: To advertise in PalletCentral, contact Mark Barford at 703-519-0186 or mbarford@palletcentral.com. Address changes and subscriptions: To update your mailing address or to subscribe to PalletCentral, call 703-519-6104 or email info@palletcentral.com. ©2021 NWPCA. All rights reserved. The views expressed in all articles, editorials and advertisements appearing in PalletCentral are solely those of the author and advertiser, respectively, and do not necessarily represent the views of NWPCA. NWPCA Releases PDS Version 6.2 N WPCA released the latest version of the Pallet Design System™ in November, 2020. PDS version 6.2 makes it possible to design overlap- base block pallets with recessed bottom decks. It also contains an important extension to our unit load for boxes analysis capabilities. Other improvements and new features included in PDS 6.2 include filler boards and trenched stringer boards can be added to overlap base block pallets; interlock stacked boxes which can be analyzed for unit loads; forklifting from the end of stringer pallets can be analyzed when there is no stringer between the fork tines. With this release, the PDS installer is now available in all seven languages. Funding in part for this release is made possible by the Pallet Foundation. Learn more about the work of the Foundation at palletfoundation.org/ projects.

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