According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Ikea uses 10 million shipping pallets each year, and they’ve developed a new way to fold cardboard into pallets with the same integrity and strength as ...

Wooden pallets churned out in the billions over the five decades during which they've dominated world trade face a challenge from a cardboard rival that's the brainchild of furniture retailer Ikea ...

OptiLedge LLC is taking Ikea's plastic alternative to the traditional wooden pallet to the next level, making and marketing them globally.

At two inches high, the paper pallets are one-third the height of wooden ones, and they’re 90 percent lighter, at 5.5 pounds. The svelte profile means Ikea can cram more goods into each shipment.

Ikea, which uses 10 million pallets to supply its stores with bookcases, pillows and candles, will ditch wood by January in favor of a lighter, thinner, paper-based alternative the Swedish company ...

Ikea is ditching its wooden pallets for a cardboard alternative, getting greener and saving green in the process (via Grist). The move will cut shipping costs by $193 million a year ...