Abstract
From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the followingquote: “Pallets are flat transport structures used to supp ort a shipment of goods while the shipment isstored or transported from one loc ation to another with a forklift, a pallet jack, a front loader, a jackingdevic e, or an erect crane. The packaged goods are often placed on a pallet, secured w ith strapping,stretch wrap or shrink wrap and shipped. The pallet has supplante d older forms of crating, such as thewooden box and the wooden barrel, as it wo rks well with modern packaging like corrugated boxes andintermodal containers c ommonly used for bulk shipping. While most pallets are wooden, pallets can alsobe made of plastic, metal, paper, and recycled materials.
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