The Idaho Grower Shipper Association (IGSA), the trade organization representing shippers in the Idaho potato industry, is joining with CHEP to support the group’s educational activities. In return, the IGSA will promote the benefits of CHEP pallet pooling to its many members. “The Idaho Grower Shipper Association and CHEP are working … [Read more...]
Idaho Grower Shipper Association Partners with CHEP to Bolster Industry Education Initiatives
April 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Lone Star Citrus Sees Better Service and Pallet Quality with CHEP
April 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
MISSION, Texas--Lone Star Citrus Growers, a leading grower/packer/ shipper of oranges and grapefruit, now has CHEP, the world’s leading pallet and container pooling company, as one of their trusted suppliers. Lone Star ships its Texas Red and Texas Sweetie brand fruit to supermarkets, clubs, foodservice distributors and wholesalers across the … [Read more...]
Rousseau Farming CHEP Pallet Pool
April 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
TOLLESON, Ariz.--Rousseau Farming Company, one of the Arizona’s fastest growing produce companies, has signed a new contract to ship products on pallets from CHEP, the world’s leading pallet and container pooling company. The company is now transporting organic vegetables, broccoli, cilantro, kale, mixed greens, cabbage, carrots, dry onions and … [Read more...]
Post Modern: Supply Chain Visibility Stretching From the Past to the Yet to Come
April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
With the announcement this week that Reed Business Information is pulling the plug on Modern Materials Handling, we are given pause to reflect on the powerful role that Modern has had over the decades in promoting the use of reusable packaging and pallets. Modern began back in 1944 as The Palletizer, a U.S. Navy publication to help educate naval … [Read more...]
Westside Produce Expands Relationship With CHEP
April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Westside Produce, a leading grower, packer and shipper of cantaloupe and honeydew melons, has signed a contract to use CHEP pallets to ship all Westside products to supermarkets, foodservice distributors and wholesale clubs across the USA, Canada and Mexico. Westside will begin marketing its TRI brand melons in May from its facilities in Yuma, … [Read more...]
Maverick Industries Begins EPP Production at New Jackson, MI Facility
April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Maverick Industries has begun production at their 140,000-square-foot plant in Jackson, Michigan. The facility, one of the largest steam chest molding operations in North America, is molding expanded polypropylene (EPP) foam packaging in the form of hand-held and shipping totes and dunnage used in returnable conveyance transport. Maverick … [Read more...]
Ohio thermoformer Fabri-Form expands product line
April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
NEW CONCORD, OHIO (April 21, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Fabri-Form Co., a thermoformer and custom fabricator in New Concord, will add capacity at its plant in nearby Byesville -- a project due in part to a state development grant. Read more at www.plasticnews.com. … [Read more...]
Litigation Between iGPS and the NASFM is Resolved
April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
ORLANDO, Fla., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), operator of the world's first pallet rental service providing all-plastic pallets with embedded RFID tags, announced today that it has received the attached letter from the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM). NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF … [Read more...]
Apax Funds plan secondary public offering of IFCO SYSTEMS N.V. in Q2 2010
April 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Amsterdam / Pullach, 20 April 2010 - Funds advised by Apax Partners ("Apax Funds") are planning to sell a substantial part of their majority stake in IFCO Systems N.V., which is held through Island International Investment Limited Partnership, via a secondary public offering. The Apax Funds contemplate a public offering in Germany and the … [Read more...]
Coca-Cola Bottler Casbega, Working with CHEP to Realize Supply Chain Savings
April 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Casbega, one of the largest Coca-Cola bottling companies in Spain and a CHEP customer for a number of years, is continually looking at ways to increase the efficiency of its operation, whilst minimising the impact that its activities are having on the environment. José María Sánchez, Industrial and Logistical Director, Casbega said, “We … [Read more...]
