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Worldwide online home and garden retailer, Aosom, was founded in 2009 and created by wholesale partner and 3PL specialist, MH Star. MH Star have gradually expanded their operations across the past few years due to the growth of Aosom in the UK market. MH Star first partnered with Junction 4 Pallets in 2024, when Bury…

Wooden pallets are regaining strategic importance across global logistics networks as companies reassess materials choices. In a period defined by supply chain volatility, the humble wooden pallet is being re-evaluated, not as a commodity, but as a critical enabler of flexibility and risk mitigation. While plastic pallets continue to expand in niche, hygiene-sensitive sectors, the…

Forecasting is essential to everyday life. Planning holidays would be a nightmare without having an indication of what the weather will be. Mapping out your finances would be hard if you didn’t know the amount of money you were likely to earn across a year and planning your morning commute to work would be troublesome…

J4 has evolved. We offer much more than just pallets, providing several services to add value to our customers’ operations. We go one step further than simply delivering pallets, collaborating with customers to achieve the best possible results. We partner with major clients to deliver comprehensive on-site operations. By integrating into your waste workflow, J4…

Two Junction 4 Pallets managers have just earned their Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (IOSH) Managing Safely accreditation and a further three have now sat the course. The course aims to give managers and supervisors an understanding of everyone’s health and safety responsibilities in the workplace and to enable them to recognise how they can influence,…

Junction 4 Pallets is directly addressing the growing demand for cost reduction, greater efficiency and sustainability by working towards creating a multimodal transport option for slow moving and low-priority traffic. The aim behind the strategy is to develop a central handling equipment hub in the Midlands with our own rail connection. Junction 4 Pallets is…

Junction 4 Pallets has worked alongside the University of South Wales’ (UOSW) MBA programme students and academics, collaborating with the organisation to develop plans to expand its operations, whilst providing real-world insight to students in their final module. Students were divided into groups and given live projects, working on them for several months before presenting…

Switching from one service provider to another can be a nightmare. The amount of financial risk involved as well as the time commitment commercial managers and others must invest means switching suppliers can be the last thing anybody wants. At Junction 4 Pallets, we understand this and ask the question: Why should you switch your…

This article is part of our In Conversation series, where we take an in-depth look at UK and global industry with leading figures. We welcomed David Cross, a leading rail freight expert and managing director of DC Consult, who talked about his role in the creation of the iPort in Doncaster, the challenges facing global…

A growing number of businesses feel that the push for pallet standardisation by global players and trade bodies overlooks significant drawbacks. Users of standardised pallets report a lack of control over their assets, with pallets frequently abandoned in public spaces, fields, or outside private residences and shops. This issue, coupled with recurring disputes over lost…