Perishables Packing Rental and Pooling Models in Perishables

Editor’s Note:  The fol­low arti­cle has been authored by Jon Kalin, RPA Imme­di­ate Past Chair­man (ex offi­cio) and Sales and Mar­ket­ing Man­ager, Rehrig Pacific Company The sup­ply chain for mov­ing pro­duce from field to super­mar­ket has become so effi­cient and far reach­ing that con­sumers take for granted the avail­abil­ity of previously-hard-to-find pro­duce year round in [...]

Paper Pallets for Export

This article on paper pallets continues our discussion of pallets for export, following our look at presswood pallets and plastic pallets. When the IKEA paper pallet shift was made, the retailer announced that it would be utilizing paper pallets and loading ledges for its unit load base requirements. Predictably, paper pallets would subsequently be getting [...]

Plastic Pallets for Export

Note:  Continuing from our look at presswood pallets, our discussion of export pallets now considers  plastic pallets for export. Buying export pallets? One important benefit of plastic pallets for export is that they do not require special treatments as would wood,” notes Amnon Shalman, CEO of Cabka North America (www.cabka.com), an international plastic pallet supplier. [...]

Pallet Recycling Home Page

This section of our pallets treatment is a work in progress. Here is a selection of articles from www.packagingrevolution.net as well as www.recycling.about.com. Wood Pallet Recycling Collecting Pallets – Free and Low Cost Pallet Sources Pallet Repair Tools and Equipment Pallets for Recycling Photo Gallery Pallet Recycling Equipment Guarding Concerns Pallet Disassembly Equipment for Recycle [...]

History of Pallets Home Page

Pallets and their predecessor, the shop skid, definitely came into use in the early 20th Century, but pallet-like prototypes were probably in use hundreds of years earlier. This page is a work in process, but here are some pages from PackagingRevolution.net posted to this point in time that touch on the history of pallet use. What [...]

Pallets During World War 2 – Quartermaster Corps

One of the best studies of pallet usage during the Second World War appears in The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supplies and Services Volume 1, by Erna Risch. The focus is from the perspective of the Quartermaster Corps versus other functions such as ordance, but this endures as the most detailed coverage I have found with [...]

A History of Pallets During World War 2: A Call to Action

While the techniques of palletized handling had begun to take shape with the evolution of pallets during the 1920s and 1930s, the practice was not yet widely used in commerce. There had been little impetus for more widespread introduction of palletized handling with forklift trucks. The surplus of labor in the work force, in combination [...]

What Is a Pallet? – Introduction to Pallet Usage

This article addresses the question,”What is a pallet?” and provides an introduction to pallet usage by industry. The history of pallets has shown their gradual development over the last century, helping enable the development of modern logistics. The importance of pallets to supply chain applications today has been significant, allowing dramatic efficiencies in the handling [...]

Reusable Packaging: Financial Alternatives and Outsourcing Options

Reusable packaging solutions can have a significant, positive financial impact on your supply chain; however, in order to maximize the return on your reusable packaging investment, you will need to first evaluate your corporate and supply chain requirements to find the perfect balance between container ownership (buy or lease) and/or an appropriate level of outsourcing [...]

Donald “Tad” Shepard Foresaw the Future of Plastic Reusable Packaging

Donald “Tad” Shepard, leader of packaging giant Menasha Corp. during the 1980s and early ’90s, died July 5 in Neenah, Wis., of cardiac arrest. He was 87. Shepard was a great-grandson of Elisha Smith, who in 1852 bought a failed Menasha, Wis.-based wooden pail-making business and turned it into the successful wooden ware firm. The company, which [...]

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