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NWPCA Staff
President/CEO
Brent J. McClendon, CAE, brent@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
Vice President, Science & Technology
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
Vice President, Operations and Events
Isabel ("Mimi") Sullivan, msullivan@palletcentral.com
PalletCentral Editorial, Design & Production:
Caryn Smith, Driven By Design LLC
palletdesign@comcast.net
PALLETCENTRAL, Volume 22, Number 4.
PUBLISHED BY THE
NATIONAL WOODEN PALLET
& CONTAINER ASSOCIATION
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Nature's Packaging
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Refreshes Website and Logo
T
he Pallet Foundation, the National
Wooden Pallet & Container
Association, the Canadian Wood
Pallet and Container Association,
and the Western Pallet Association announce the newly designed website for Nature's
Packaging®. Nature's Packaging's popular website serves as the central, one-stop-shop
website for the supply chain when seeking fact-based materials on the environmental
aspects of wooden pallets to packaging professionals.
First launched in 2015 by the Pallet Foundation, Nature's Packaging has grown
significantly and attracts thousands of visitors each month. The entire supply chain is asking
more questions regarding the sustainability and recyclability of their procurement decisions.
The new website answers these questions and provides the materials with a more user-
friendly design, and weekly blog posts keep the website fresh.
The Nature's Packaging logo was also
refreshed for digital purposes and draws
more attention to the material: wood.
Wood packaging is Nature's Packaging,
and we have a fantastic story to tell.
Members of NWPCA, CWPCA, and
the WPA may use the new logo on
their website and emails. Learn more,
browse the new website, and download
the logo at naturespackaging.org.
2021 Fall Plant Tours in Alabama
A
s you read this, NWPCA staff has just returned from visiting our members and
working on-site to make the Fall Plant Tour a great success. Registration opens
in late July for the NWPCA Fall Plant Tours, October 25 & 26, 2021 in Alabama.
Thank you to NWPCA members C & L Wood in Hartsville, AL and McVantage
Group in Tuscumbia, AL for opening their doors as our plant tour hosts. Attendees
will see the state-of-the-art equipment, scragg mills, high-volume production of
new pallets, skids, crates, as well as pallet recycling operations, mulch, and other
wood products. Stay tuned for news on registration or visit palletcentral.com/
recyclersconference for updates.
