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 … [Read more...]
Paper Pallets for Export
November 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Plastic Pallets for Export
November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Pallet Recycling Home Page
October 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
History of Pallets Home Page
October 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 Came First, … [Read more...]
Pallets During World War 2 – Quartermaster Corps
October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 respect to pallet … [Read more...]
A History of Pallets During World War 2: A Call to Action
October 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 with the … [Read more...]
What Is a Pallet? – Introduction to Pallet Usage
October 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Donald “Tad” Shepard Foresaw the Future of Plastic Reusable Packaging
July 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
