Reducing Complexity in Reusable Packaging: Flexible Container Allows Various Sized Gear Racks to Be Stored in Same Container

One of the ongoing challenges for reusable packaging which is part-specific is complexity involving several sizes or variations for different production models. For example, a part available in different sizes often requires that it be transported or stored in various packaging sizes. This quite simply means that corresponding to the number of different product sizes [...]

Reusables 101: Defining Reusable Transport Packaging and Its Applications (Part 1)

This is the first article in a three-part series by Jerry Welcome, president of the Reusable Packaging Association. This first article defines reusable transport packaging and its role in the supply chain. The second article will discuss the economic and environmental benefits of reusable transport packaging, and the third article will supply some parameters and [...]

Gen2 Passive RFID Tag Suitable for Returnable Transit Items Tracking

Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc.has announced the release of this compact 865 to 928MHz Gen 2 passive RFID tag which can be easily attached to an item by adhesive, magnetic tape or cable. It is especially suitable for IT asset tracking as the sleek form factor of the passive tag fits well in the [...]

Reusable shipper wins DuPont Diamond Award

Entropy Solutions, Inc. was announced as the Diamond winner at the 22nd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers with its Greenbox temperature-sensitive shipper, developed to maintain and control the temperature of vaccines, blood, and biologic-based products during transit.

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The National Consumer League calls for pallet safety standards

Andrew Mosqueda has weighed in quickly on the press release issued by the National Consumer League, announcing the results of tests that found contamination in both wood and plastic pallets, and calling for the FDA to set minimum pallet safety standards.
What we have here, Andrew concludes is a failure of imagination. Read more.
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Brambles CEO Bullish on Future

BRAMBLES is bullish about the Australian economy and the company’s outlook overseas was not as bad as some people perhaps thought it should be.
Brambles’ business in Australia was in “good shape” and it  was “pretty positive and bullish” on the Australian economy, chief executive Tom Gorman told an [...]

Pallets and Food Safety: Another Call to Set Minimum Safety and Sanitation Standards

There have been other pleas recently for FDA intervention when it comes to pallets and food safety (See IGPS Announces New Wood Pallet Bacteria Results), but this one is  from the National Consumers League, consumer group rather than a particular competitor such as the maker of a pallet of a particular material type calling into question [...]

Wilmington Machinery Annouces Availability of Two New Models of the ‘PALLATEER

Wilmington,NC: Wilmington Machinery, a manufacturer of high speed rotary coextrusion blow molding systems and structural foam injection molding machinery, announces two new models of its PALLATEER Plastic Pallet Molding Systems. Each of the new models utilizes stack mold technology to increase production at a lower investment and with decreased floor space, utilities and labor.
The new [...]

The Kennedy Group Recognized

Cleveland – On behalf of the ten-member Board of Directors, Dan DiFillipo, CPIM Acting President and Dennis Okocha, CPIM President-Elect of the APICS Cleveland Chapter, presented the Kennedy Group of Willoughby, Ohio with the 2010 APICS Cleveland Chapter Company of the Year Award at the May 12th chapter meeting. Kevin Marie, Director of [...]

UK Plastic Crates And Pallet Company Expands

May 25, 2010
by Jenny Pilley (OfficialWire)
MEASHAM, DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND
PPS specialises in the rental, management and washing of plastic crates and plastic pallets and has established a solid reputation servicing a number of blue chip companies, primarily in the food sectors. However, the ambitions of the owners of the business were such that they were actively looking [...]

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