IPP Logipal Develops Innovative Solution for Produce World

Fast growing pallet rental specialist, IPP Logipal has developed a dedicated pallet solution for Produce World, one of the UK’s leading fresh produce suppliers to major supermarkets nationwide.
Produce World offers customers a diverse range of vegetables, and is an expert in organic produce. It supplies potatoes, root vegetables, alliums, and brassicas through a portfolio of [...]

eBay Green Box Bags Exposure for Reusable Packaging

It is funny how things work. The reusables industry has been toiling for years and years to raise awareness about reusable packaging. Now, in a single announcement, eBay has generated a tsunami of publicity about reusable transport packaging with the introduction of its new reusable box. For example, a key word search comprised of “eBay [...]

Reusable Plastic Crates: Driving Sustainability in the Dairy Supply Chain

The issue or reusable packaging selection and management is the topic of a key session on September 14 at the International Dairy Show in Dallas, Texas.
What are the specific environmental benefits of reusable packaging? By design, reusable case and pallet systems offer dairies a sustainable, cost-effective method to ship, handle and store materials across the [...]

Beverage Industry Hosts Returnable Container Management Session at InterBev

The loss of assets is an important topic for every beverage business, and is a session focus for the InterBev 2010 conference, held September 22-24, in Orlando, Florida.
In this session, attendees will hear case studies on lowering the loss of returnable assets in the food and beverage industry, and learn about industry initiatives that are [...]

ABA Hosts Best Practices in Returnable Asset Management Seminar

Reusable packaging management is a featured session at the upcoming International Baking Industry Exposition, held September 26-29 in Las Vegas NV. By attending this reusables management session,event organizers say, you could save your company thousands of dollars each year!
Plastic container theft and misuse have been recurring industry issues for years. Recently, the losses [...]

Leading Reusable Packaging Service Providers Will Exhibit at RPA Packaging Pavilion at PACK EXPO

The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) has announced that 11 of the industry’s leading reusable packaging service providers will exhibit together at the RPA’s Reusable Packaging Pavilion at PACK EXPO International 2010, Oct. 31 – Nov. 3. The reusable packaging service providers that are exhibiting in the Pavilion are:

Container and Pooling Solutions (CAPS)
iGPS
The Kennedy Group
IFCO SYSTEMS
ORBIS [...]

GM Europe Continues Partnership with CHEP

Cologne – CHEP, the global leader in pallet and container pooling services, has announced that GM Europe once again has chosen CHEP as its pooling service provider. The two companies have committed to work together until July 2016.
GM Europe was the first European Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to launch with CHEP Automotive in 1993, and [...]

MMH Pallet Survey Results: Wood Still Dominates at 84%

Modern Materials Handling has announced the results of their latest reader pallet survey.
Not surprisingly, wood continues to dominate at 84% of usage, with plastic pallet usage at 8% and metal pallets at 2%.
Looking back at an earlier MMH pallet survey in 2000, wood pallets accounted for 91% of pallets purchased, down from 97% [...]

When CHEP Sneezes…

Up north there is an old saying that when the U.S. sneezes, Canada catches a cold. The market for reusable transport packaging and pallets isn’t all that different. When new competitors or substitute goods (i.e., innovative products or systems) enter the marketplace, there is predictably a ripple effect.

For example, when CHEP U.S.A. rolled out in [...]

Reusable Jobs Featured: Automotive and RPC

This week we feature three more positions within the reusable transport packaging sector. The first two are Detroit-based positions with CHEP’s new automotive team, and the second is managing an RPC (reusable plastic container) facility for Georgia Pacific in King City, California.
Director, Supply Chain Automotive
The position is part of a newly formed CHEP Americas automotive [...]

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