Compressed Wood Pallet Machine for Palm Waste | PalletMach

In October 2026, We met a French pallet producer at the 140th Canton Fair in Guangzhou. The company has been in the pallet business for more than twenty years and runs plants in Belgium and Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia it faces a feedstock question that keeps growing: large volumes of palm leaves left over from date farming, with no good outlet. one weeks after the fair, the client flew in and spent a full day at our factory, ending at the compressed wood pallet machine that presses fibrous waste into pallets.

A buyer with two decades in the trade does not come to be educated about pallets. He comes to check whether a supplier can turn his specific waste into a product his customers will accept. The visit was arranged around exactly that question.

Palm Leaves Are a Pressing Material, Not a Waste Problem

Palm leaves and palm trunk material sit on our official raw material list for the presswood route, alongside sawdust, bamboo, bagasse and coconut fibre. Fibrous, dry, plant-based waste is what a presswood pallet production line is built to consume: crushed, dried, mixed with binder, then hot-pressed into a nail-free, fumigation-free pallet.

For a producer in Saudi Arabia, that changes the economics of the date-farming waste stream. Material that currently costs money to clear leaves the line as ISPM 15-free pallets for local and export logistics. Our engineers walked the client through the full sequence, from crushing and drying to pressing, and explained which material properties decide the recipe: fibre length, moisture, and how the feed behaves under heat and pressure.

The Other Three Lines He Checked on the Same Day

Although palm waste drives the project, the client used the visit to map all four routes in one place, because a group with plants in two countries buys across product categories.

• Plastic line. The plastic pallet machine forms pallets from waste plastic in one pressing cycle, a route his Saudi site may use for mixed plastic scrap from industrial partners.
• Pallet block line. The pallet block machine produces sawdust blocks for stringer pallets, a product his Belgian plant already buys and could make in house.
• Nailing line. A pallet nailing machine completed the picture, covering conventional wooden pallets alongside the moulded routes.

Seeing the four lines running under one roof is what a factory visit offers that a catalogue cannot. The client left with a clear view of which route fits which plant, and what each would need in material preparation.

The Next Step: Test the Palm Waste First

We do not quote a pressing configuration before running the customer's own material. Fibre length, moisture and binder behaviour all change the recipe, so the next step is fixed: the client sends palm leaf samples, our engineers run them on the line, and he receives the pressed pallets with a trial video and a parameter sheet. The quotation follows the test, not the other way round.

Missed us at the Canton Fair? The door is open. Send your material or your questions, and you are welcome to visit and watch your own waste turn into pallets before you decide.

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