<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/dexter-axle-pallet-squeezer.aspx" dsn="blogs"><title>Built to squeeze: Engineering seniors design, build pallet handling fix for Dexter Group </title><pub_date>05/14/2025</pub_date><image_large><img src="/news/2025/images/dexter-axle-media.jpg" alt="Trine University students working on Dexter Axle pallet squeezer"/></image_large><summary>Taking the baton from last year’s team, five Trine University mechanical engineering seniors renewed their partnership with Dexter Axle’s Albion, Indiana, facility to complete a custom-built pallet squeezer—an industrial machine designed to realign heavy stacks of manufacturing pallets. </summary><sitee>Trine.edu</sitee><type>News Story</type><topics>Achievements</topics><programs>Mechanical Engineering</programs><programs_c/><related/><trine_highlight/><trineonline_highlight/><highlight_name/><highlight_major/><highlight_year/><highlight_quote/></item>