AI for pallet and crate manufacturers, tested on quotes and treatment files you already closed.

One desk sells more than one product. The industry code for this trade, NAICS 321920, Wood Container and Pallet Manufacturing, reaches wood pallets, box shook, boxes, other wood containers and the parts for them, with shipping crates and pallet containers among its index entries. An estimator may price a repaired pallet in the morning and a skidded export crate after lunch, out of the same inbox, with different facts at stake in each.

The standard expects details most requests leave out. Woodpack Global, formerly the National Wooden Pallet & Container Association, had its board approve a new Uniform Standard for Wood Pallets on November 5, 2025, replacing the 2014 edition. It is advisory and voluntary, runs in three parts covering manufacture, performance and phytosanitation, and applies only at the completion of manufacture. It says size and design details need to be specified, and it leaves the pallet user to decide whether a design suits the unit load. A three-line request skips most of that, so your old quotes are a ready answer key: what the customer sent, and the sheet your estimator built once the phone calls were done.

The treatment program already runs on monthly paper. APHIS says the American Lumber Standard Committee administers the U.S. heat treatment and methyl bromide programs for wood packaging. ALSC's enforcement regulations, dated November 7, 2025, have an accredited agency inspect each wood packaging facility at least twelve times a year, at about monthly intervals, whatever its production; a plant idle more than two months in a year is still inspected for each month it produces. NELMA, one of those agencies, describes each visit as a complete audit of records, lumber inventory and stamps, and lists missing or incomplete documentation among its discrepancies. Ongoing serious ones can bring a warning or a suspension of service, which it says blocks supervision from any accredited agency for 60 days or 180 days.

No government certificate stands in for your file. APHIS says it is against its policy to issue a phytosanitary certificate for wood packaging used to transport commodities; it issues one only when the packaging is itself the cargo. A customer who wants proof is left with the mark on the pallet and what your program can show behind it. APHIS also notes an exemption between Canada and the United States for packaging made from wood that originated in the continental United States or Canada, when the import documents carry an origin statement. That is one more detail a treatment file may have to answer, and a person decides how.

Crates come later because their paperwork varies more. ASTM D6039 alone covers five types and two styles of open wood crates and one covered type, for net loads up to 4,000 pounds; heavy duty sheathed crates have their own specification, ASTM D7478; and Woodpack Global publishes a separate Uniform Standard for Wood Containers. A crate quote can be tested on its own copies once one of these first two jobs has proved itself.

One limit covers every job here. Nothing in the proof of concept touches your quoting system, ERP, a kiln controller or a live record. It never decides that a pallet carries a load or that a batch meets a treatment schedule, and it never authorizes a mark. An estimator checks every quote sheet, your certified program's responsible person decides every treatment question, and none of this is legal, compliance or engineering advice.