Flame Retardants: Energy & Commerce Committee to Hold Hearing

DecaBDE continues to find the spotlight, as momentum builds towards its phaseout. Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak have requested information from chemical companies Albemarle Corporation, Chemtura Corporation, and ICL Performance Products on their top-selling flame retardant chemicals, including documentation related to each chemical’s potential health, safety, and environmental effects. The [...]

New York A9173 and A7573 Target Wood Pallets and Deca

Andrew Mosqueda’s ongoing chronicles of “The Pallet Wars” have provided some interesting coverage in the public relations standoff between iGPS and wood pallet stakeholders. His latest installment looks at a new twist in New York State, where a New York State Representative seems to be simultaneously taking on both iGPS and wood pallets. The same [...]

The Rediscovery of the Slipsheet?

It seems like just yesterday I was writing in Pallet Enterprise about The Home Depot’s shortlived slipsheet coalition initiative to migrate from pallets to slipsheets for inbound freight. That effort in the mid-1990s seemed to fizzle out without much notice. In the right application, however, slipshheets can work great. On the other hand, the requirement [...]

iGPS Receives Tax Break to Create Jobs

Pallets aren’t exactly something most Central Floridians think about, even though two major pallet makers call Orlando their home.
Now, thanks to decision in March by city leaders, one of those companies is planning to add about 75 jobs over the next five years — welcome news in the region’s tough economic climate. Read the rest [...]

Modern Materials Handling and Other Supply Chain Group Titles Purchased by Peerless Media

Last week’s sendoff (click here) to Modern Materials Handling was luckily a little premature. Modern and three other Reed publications will remain in business without interruption.
After Reed Elsevier announced April 16 it was shutting down a staggering 23 titles published under its Reed Business Information U.S. division, it was generally expected that at least [...]

DANONE EAUX FRANCE AND CHEP COLLABORATE TO REDUCE THEIR CARBON FOOTPRINT

Clichy, France, 22 April 2010 – CHEP has signed a transportation agreement with Danone Eaux France, relating to its Evian and Volvic brands, to use their train service operating between the UK, Germany and France for the distribution of its empty pallets.*
Danone Eaux France, the world’s second largest producer of bottled water, delivers its Evian [...]

IPP Logipal makes everyday pallet processing even easier

Expanding pallet specialist IPP Logipal has updated its dedicated order processing website, www.ePalletPartner.com, to provide customers with easier access to highly accurate account status information.
The company’s management team, with the support of a range of customers, has developed the new functionality, which can be accessed via a secure web portal.
The system enables customers to place [...]

Nordic ID and Container Centralen Sign a European Cooperation Agreement

Salo, Finland +++ Nordic ID and Container Centralen have signed a cooperation agreement to market and to sell software in the Nordic ID handheld readers to bring the benefits of RFID to the European horticultural industry. This is a part of Container Centralen’s “Operation Chip It”, which is the tagging operation that takes place [...]

More on Australian Pallet Rental and Loscam – Loscam Leader Magazine

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PEP, CHAMP on short list to buy Loscam – sources

Loscam is not only Australia’s second pallet rental pool after CHEP, but also has established a strong presence in South Asia. The following report from Reuters covers the recent activity around the potential sale of Loscam by its owner, Affinity Equity Partners.
MELBOURNE, April 23 (Reuters) – Australian private equity firms Pacific Equity Partners and CHAMP [...]

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