German plastic pallet maker pushes into North America

German plastic pallet maker pushes into North America    German plastic pallet maker Paul Craemer GmbH will make a move into the North American cargo market by forming a partnership with Granville Composite Products Corp., based in Montreal.
   Granville will serve as the exclusive distributor of Craemer’s products, which include pallets with radio-frequency identification tags for tracking.
   Alexander Korell, Craemer’s export area manager, said the United States and Canadian markets offer “a huge market potential” for the European company, especially with the tighter regulatory restrictions on wood packaging.
   Craemer is not the only plastic pallet firm with an eye on the North American market. Newly formed Intelligent Global Pooling Systems is also developing a plastic pallet pool tracked by RFID tags.
   For more details about plastic pallets, read the June American Shipper, page 42.