OUR PRODUCTS - The Rock

Quality wooden pallets, skids, and crates are essential pieces of the product protection, warehousing, and transportation puzzle. Created to protect your load, these products also provide for enlarged storage volume in warehouse racking systems saving you valuable space. Pallets, skids, or crates can be two-way and four-way entry, letting you warehouse and move your products around safely and easily. The Rock has decades of experience providing America with the best choice in cost-effective shipping and storage systems solutions for manufactured products anywhere.

The Rock uses PDS© (Pallet Design Software) developed by the NWPCA and Virginia Tech to design the pallet that will meet your needs. First, your detailed descriptions of the actual unit load and materials handling conditions are entered and then PDS© accurately predicts the pallet’s safe load capacity and service life. The Rock and PDS© will engineer the best and most cost-effective pallet for your specific needs.

Stringer Pallets / GMA Pallets / Warehouse Pallets The stringer pallet is the most commonly used pallet in the United States. Stringer Pallets can be made to any size to match your specific needs. Depending on the application, there are partial 4-way entry pallets and 2-way entry pallets, referring to the sides you enter it from with a forklift. The most common size stringer pallet produced nationally is the 48” X 40”, often called a “GMA”, “48 x 40 GMA” or even “Warehouse Pallet”. These pallets are constructed in accordance with the guidelines drafted by Grocery Manufacturers of America.

Heat Treated Pallets / ISPM 15 Compliant Pallets / Export Pallets If you ship your products outside the US, the pallets you use will be required to comply with the International Phytosanitary Measure known as ISPM 15. Compliance involves “Heat Treating” pallets to reduce the risk of introduction and/or spread of quarantined pests. The Rock facilities have the two largest heat treatment sterilizers in the country. They are poised to handle even the largest pallet users’ needs quickly and efficiently. You can rest assured that The Rock stands ready to handle whatever your needs are.

ISPM 15: Developed by the IPPC that directly addresses the need to treat wood materials of a thickness greater than 6mm, used to ship products between countries. It affects all wood packaging material (pallets, crates, dunnages, etc)requiring that they be treated with heat or fumigated with methyl bromide and marked, often branded, with a seal of compliance. This seal of compliance is colloquially known as the “bug stamp.” Products exempt from the ISPM 15 are made from alternative material, like paper, plastic or manufactured wood products (eg. plywood)

IPPC: The International Plant Protection Convention is a multilateral treaty to harmonize regulations governing those imports that could impact the physical condition of forest and crops. The IPPC (now 134 different countries) adopted voluntary compliance standards in 2003.

FAO: The Food & Agriculture Organization has ultimate oversight of the treaty.

APHIS: The U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has oversight of compliance of the standard within the USA.

ALSC: The American Lumber Standards Committee has been selected by APHIS as the manager of this program in the USA.

Timber Products, Inc.: As approved and monitored by ALSC, this company inspects and certifies monthly the heat treatment process and services performed at John Rock, Inc.

Recycled Pallets / Used Pallets / Remanufactured Pallets Choosing wooden pallets has been shown to be the “Green Choice”. A properly constructed wood pallet has a useful life far beyond its initial trip. Many pallets are used many times, repaired, and used again many times. The Rock team has many years of experience recovering, reusing, repairing, and recycling used pallets with a conscious eye toward protecting our natural resources, giving their customers not only cost-effective but also environmentally conscious solutions.