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 [...]

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 [...]

Container Spotting in Italy (Page 2)

Container Spotting in Italy continued from Page 1. Roll cages and pallets of grocery products are being delivered to the “dock,” in the traditional sense of the word. At bottom, a boat moves floral products into the city. Container Spotting in Italy continues on Page 3.

Container Spotting in Italy

Meanwhile in Italy… How do you deliver the goods in Venice when road traffic is restricted? Boat with empty collapsible plastic containers, empty pallets, and empty insulated bins. Container Spotting in Italy continued on Page 2.

Urbanization and Reusables: What Does the Future Portend?

Urbanization isn’t new, but it is sweeping the world, and it represents one of the most important world trends. Will it have an impact on reusable packaging and pallets? Or will reusables within our existing product mix continue to provide best value. Certainly products such as the Container Centralen Low-Noise, or the Pally, for example, [...]

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Greenwashing

Today the pressure is on to utilize materials that are as environmentally friendly as possible. One of the key methods used by packaging providers to “prove” the superiority of their solutions is to conduct a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This war over who is greenest has even filtered down into transport packaging, with a recent [...]

Benefits of Reusable, Washable Packaging and Pallets – Page 2

Continued from Page 1 “We have a solid track record and experience in the returnable crates sector. “If the aquaculture industry – and any fresh food producers for that matter – in Scotland can be persuaded to switch from polystyrene to re-usable plastic crates it will benefit them financially and reduce their carbon footprint. “Of [...]

Returnable, Washable Packaging Offers Suppliers a 40% Cut in Costs

RETURNABLE plastic crates, boxes and pallets could save Scottish fish farms countless thousands of pounds a year by substantially reducing waste, according to PPS, a company recently featured at www.packagingrevolution.net. PPS, a company headed by two Scots that supplies and washes plastic sustainable crates to fish, poultry, fruit and vegetable suppliers, believes the aquaculture sector [...]

Premier Organics Reduces Stretch Wrap Usage Through Reusable Pallet Wrap Program

Premier Organics, maker of Artisana Organic Foods, has been approved for an innovative grant from Stopwaste.org in the amount of $3,000 to create and implement a reusable pallet wrapping program at its facilities in Oakland, CA. The grant and matching program is expected to reduce the use of plastic by 4,500 lbs each year. “Most [...]

Premier Organics Reduces Stretch Wrap Usage – Page 2

Continued from Page 1 Premier Organics will be conducting a three month study and will provide film usage data to Stopwaste and other distributors and warehouses in the bay area regarding the success of the program. The company is hopeful that after exhibiting a successful implementation, other key partners will want to participate to create [...]

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