Metal Pallet RFID Traceability Project Successful

B.O.S. Better Online Solutions Ltd. (“BOS”) has announced that its RFID division, has successfully completed a traceability project with metal pallets in Spain at BAMESA corporation. The project with BAMESA involved the tagging, tracking and managing inventory for metal pallets. BAMESA is a leading Steel Service Center organization for, among others, the automotive, home appliances [...]

Norwegian Plastic Pallet Offers No-Skid Strip

The global goods logistics does not only take place at fair weather and inside buildings, but to a large extent outdoor and in bad weather. Moisture in any form, whether rain, snow and ice or spray water at sea, brings goods and pallets to slip and slide, causing dangers and loss. The solution for the [...]

Brambles Delivers First Half 2012 Sales and Profit Growth

Report Highlights CHEP USA turnaround continues: improved efficiencies and sales growth Sales resilient in Europe; actions identified to address cost pressures Strong contribution and growth from IFCO businesses acquired in March 2011 RPCs, Containers and emerging markets Pallets operations drive sales increase Full-year Group Underlying profit1 guidance tightened to US$1,050 million to US$1,080 million Recall [...]

Loscam Marks 70 Years in Business

Loscam turns 70 years old in 2012! Looking back over the decades, it has certainly been a dynamic and ever-changing business, having begun in Australia as a multi-family venture involving timber mills, logging, and trading war surplus materials such as forklifts, trucks, engines, army tents, and pallets. At the time, the business was registered as [...]

Chicago-Based Company Thinks Green With Pallet Wrapz

CHICAGO (CBS) — The sewing machines are on overdrive inside a West Side warehouse as workers piece together the latest product taking the green world by storm. “Pallet Wrapz are an eco friendly alternative to plastic stretch film that is wrapped around boxes on pallets,” said Pallet Wrapz president Matt Jacobs. Read more at CBS.

Jeco Collaborates with Purdue University and NDEMC

Press release: Pallets from Jeco Plastic Products—designer and manufacturer of plastic pallets and containers for the worldwide printing and automotive industries since 1973—can now be made stronger than ever as a result of a collaboration with Purdue University and the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium. The collaboration provides Jeco with access to incredibly powerful computers, [...]

IKEA Chooses Innovative OptiLedge Shipping Platforms Over Traditional Wooden Pallets

Editor’s note: Recent coverage of IKEA’s dramatic move to replace wood pallets with paper pallets and loading ledges has caught wide attention with respect to paper pallets. The option of loading ledges has received less coverage to date. Find below additional information on the Optiledge. ATLANTA, GA, Feb 13, 2012 — Leading International Retailer, IKEA, [...]

Pallet and Container Theft – a Policy Problem

I just recently received a note from a recycling friend who expressed concern that our ongoing coverage of police actions against recyclers in California and elsewhere may be sending pallet and crate owners the wrong message – that they don’t really need to invest in managing their pallets and reusable packaging. Instead, they can just [...]

Rigid Thinking and Reusables: Increased Recovery and Recycling of Rigid Plastic a Good News Story

This week’s Reusable Packaging News, like any good reusable packaging application, is about connecting the dots, whether in terms of embracing a systems based approach to packaging, or to environmental impacts. We see new evidence of reusable packaging providers continuing to work towards providing an easy comparison of environmental benefits of reusable packaging versus expendable [...]

iGPS Announces Appointment of Meredith Neizer as Chief Operating Officer

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC), provider of the world’s leading pallet rental solution featuring lightweight, plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, has appointed Meredith Neizer as Chief Operating Officer of the company. Neizer brings over three decades of supply chain experience to iGPS, including senior-level responsibilities in global and domestic [...]

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