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12 PalletCentral • November-December 2022 palletcentral.com POLICY PLAY AT A round three-and-a-half hours away from the heart of Washington D.C. is Remmey – e Pallet Company's Beaver Springs facilities and headquarters. Driving during peak leaf season, the rolling hills of orange, yellow, and red forests are surrounded by neat pastures and farmhouses. Remmey is a 40-minute drive from the closest town, down winding roads that are finally getting some TLC. e rural lands are a beautiful homage to the hardworking families that maintain and thrive there. Upon arriving at the new headquarters, Ben Remmey, president, and his father, Don Remmey Jr., previous president and patriarch, greeted NWPCA staff. Brent McClendon, president/CEO, Jason Ortega, vice president of public affairs, and Hallie Fuchs, public affairs manager, were in town to participate in the congressional plant tour with the House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Glenn "G.T." ompson. e intimate two-hour tour started with introductions and a sit-down where Representative ompson spoke to the Remmeys and NWPCA. ompson has been a longtime friend of the industry, and this wasn't the first time he'd crossed paths with the Remmey family. In 2017, Ben hand-delivered the NWPCA Champion of the Wood Pallet & Wood Packaging Industry award to "G.T." e roundtable felt more like friends who were catching up, chatting about the history of Remmey, expanding the company footprint in the 1990s with a small Amish-owned pallet company, eventually consolidating and establishing roots in the town of Beaver Springs. Beaver Springs is ideal because it lies between Remmey's primary raw material suppliers and its typical customer base. ompson understands the importance A Longstanding History Incoming House Agriculture Chair Visits Remmey – The Pallet Company. By Hallie Fuchs of working forests and the value and sustainability of wood products. e Congressman's district is geographically the most extensive in Pennsylvania; it includes the robust Allegheny National Forest, which supports tens of thousands of jobs and over a billion dollars of economic activity, including timber harvesting, forestry, and energy production. Entering the conference room, a poster shows how a log could be split. It was a visual reminder to ompson of the type of raw material used in pallet manufacturing and how vital pallets are to the forest products industry, both in conservation efforts and total raw material usage. As you enter the first facility, which sits under a giant green dome, a sign

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