Wooden pallets at Arrington Lumber & Pallet Co.

Our Products

Built to Spec. Built to Last.

Wooden pallets are the core. Everything else is a product of the same mills that make them.

Primary Product

Wooden Pallets

Pallets are what we do. Every sawmill, every nailing machine, every truck in our fleet exists to get them built right and out the door on time. We’ve been doing this for over 60 years, and we treat every order like our reputation depends on it — because it does.

We regularly build over 100 different sizes each year for customers in plastics, chemicals, paint, grocery, and consumer products. Before the 1990s, wooden pallets in the U.S. rarely deviated from the 48x40 Grocery Manufacturers Association spec (GMA) — the GMA still accounts for roughly 30% of new wooden pallet production. Everything else is custom, and custom is where we work.

Need something specific? We use the Pallet Design System© to engineer pallets for exactly what they’ll carry. Tell us what you need and we’ll take it from there.

Pallets stacked at Arrington Lumber

What we can build

Construction Type

Stringer pallets or block pallets — your call. Both available in standard or custom configurations.

Entry & Access

Two-way or four-way forklift access. Reversible (identical top and bottom). Specify what your operation requires.

Size Range

Common sizes from 30" to 60" per side. We’ve built over 100 different sizes — if you can spec it, we can build it.

Wood Species & Moisture

Green pine or kiln-dried (KD) pine. We match species and moisture content to your application and cost target.

Finishing Options

Wings, chamfered lead boards, clipped corners — whatever the load or racking system demands.

Production Method

95% built on automated Viking nailing machines. The remaining 5% are hand-built when the design requires it.

Heat Treating & ISPM 15

Export shipments require ISPM 15 compliance — we are fully qualified and inspected by Timber Products Inspection. Every heat-treated pallet ships with the IPPC mark. Read more about our heat treating process →

“None of it goes to waste.” — Every log that enters our mills produces something useful.

By-Product

Residual Wood Products

Sawmilling means cutting a square product from a round raw material. The geometry never works out perfectly — and that gap is a product in its own right.

Wood residuals are cheap, widely available, carbon-rich, and easy to transport. They come in many forms — cut stock that didn’t pass grade, wood chips, heavy and fine sawdust — and can often be reworked to hit specific requirements for size, moisture content, or weight. If you have a use for it, we probably have it in a form that works.

Get in touch and tell us what you need.

Common outlets

Boiler Fuel

Paper mills and industrial facilities use wood chips and sawdust as a cost-effective fuel source.

Playground Material

Engineered wood chips and mulch for surfaces that meet safety and certification standards.

Landscaping

Bulk mulch and chip material for commercial and residential applications.

Chicken House Bedding

Sawdust and fine chips widely used as poultry house litter across the South.

Wood Pellet Manufacturing

Compressed wood pellets for residential and commercial heating fuel.

Sludge Solidification

Industrial sawdust used as an absorbent in waste management applications.

Energy

Biomass

We’ve been producing biomass as a by-product of wood operations for over 60 years. The difference is that East Texas now has the power plants to use it. Several biomass-fueled facilities have come online in this region, and the volume of wood moving through here makes it a natural hub. The supply is real. We’re already producing it.

The main economic case is straightforward: wood biomass is typically significantly cheaper than competing fossil fuels, and East Texas keeps the supply chain short.

Interested? Contact us to discuss volume and delivery.

90%

Lower CO₂ than fossil fuel

Burning wood biomass produces roughly 90% less CO₂ than equivalent fossil fuels. Renewable by definition — no drilling program required.

Minimal Contaminants

Wood fuel contains minimal sulfur and heavy metals. No acid rain risk. Particulate emissions are manageable with standard equipment.

East Texas Advantage

The concentration of biomass plants in this region exists for a reason: the sheer volume of wood moving through East Texas. We’re already in the middle of it.

Have a spec? Let’s talk.

Whether you need 500 pallets or 50,000, a standard size or something we haven’t built before — we’re ready to quote it.

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