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 … [Read more...]
Reducing Complexity in Reusable Packaging: Flexible Container Allows Various Sized Gear Racks to Be Stored in Same Container
May 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Reusables 101: Defining Reusable Transport Packaging and Its Applications (Part 1)
May 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Gen2 Passive RFID Tag Suitable for Returnable Transit Items Tracking
May 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 limited, exposed areas of enterprise IT servers and … [Read more...]
Reusable shipper wins DuPont Diamond Award
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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. Read more at … [Read more...]
The National Consumer League calls for pallet safety standards
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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. … [Read more...]
Brambles CEO Bullish on Future
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 American Chamber of Commerce in … [Read more...]
Pallets and Food Safety: Another Call to Set Minimum Safety and Sanitation Standards
May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 the … [Read more...]
Wilmington Machinery Annouces Availability of Two New Models of the ‘PALLATEER
May 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
The Kennedy Group Recognized
May 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 Sales and … [Read more...]
UK Plastic Crates And Pallet Company Expands
May 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
