$250,000 of Stolen Reusable Plastic Containers and Pallets Recovered

We have reported about previous stolen plastic pallet and container recoveries in California. Then last month, more stolen trademark plastic products with an estimated value of $250,000.00 were recovered by deputies with the Industrial Plastic Theft Task Force, Industry Sheriff’s Station, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The recovery at two recycling businesses in South Los [...]

Q&A: Preventing Pallet and Container Theft

This interview recently appeared at www.foodmanufacturing.com. As the value of plastics and other materials used to create reusable packaging increases, more and more manufacturers are dealing with reusable asset theft. Food Manufacturing spoke with Bob Klimko, chairman of the Reusable Packaging Association (RPA), about the growth of the problem and how companies can prevent asset [...]

PACK EXPO and Reusables Management

Today’s PACK EXPO update is sponsored by the world’s best pallet and container control, you and 2ic. Yesterday’s educational session focused, appropriately enough, on reusable pallet and container management. I’ll follow up with more later, but there were some useful quotes. One was to the effect that reusables systems suffer less loss when the trading [...]

Employee Steals $200,000 from Employer – Submitted Inflated Pallet Invoices

Here is another reason why pallet and reusable container management is important. Stltoday.com reports that a man set up a shell company to inflate invoices he submitted to his employer for pallet purchases. Authorities indicate that the employee stole more than $200,000 from Willert Home Products in St. Louis over the course of four years. [...]

iGPS Pallet Tracking Technology Leads Law Enforcement to Misappropriated Pallets in Virginia

ORLANDO, Fla. – September 21, 2011 – Proprietary tracking technology employed by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC), operator of the world’s first pallet rental service to provide lightweight, 100 percent recyclable plastic pallets, assisted the Virginia State Police in uncovering a large cache of misappropriated plastic pallets and containers at a pallet manufacturing [...]

Why Rent Pallets When You Can Get Them for Free?

Free pallets! This was the tone of a post I read this week at a logistics forum where I am a member. Basically, the member’s comments were to the effect that people are always trying to get rid of pallets, such as receivers who would rather keep their empty pallets out of the dumpster or [...]

175 Pallets Stolen from Dover Food Pantry in Ohio

A food co-op in Ohio had 175 pallets stolen, prompting officials to consider initiating safeguards to better protect pallets. Read more.

CHEP Pallet Thieves Caught Redhanded

Here’s one more reminder of the importance of site security, pallet safeguarding, and the importance of good control of reusable assets such as pallets through products such as 2ic Pallets. In Australia, two forklift drivers were caught stealing pallets from a Brisbane transport company by a co-worker who arrived at work early. The men were [...]

Enfora, iGPS and Numerex Win Gold at 2011 Connected World Value Chain Awards

Congratulations are in order for the triad of Enfora, Inc., a Novatel Wireless company, iGPS Company and Numerex Corp (NASDAQ: NMRX) for winning in the 2011 Connected World Value Chain Awards in the Supply Chain and Logistics category, for the combined implementation of the world’s first real-time pallet tracking service. iGPS operates the world’s largest [...]

Recycling Company Helps Police Catch Thieves

This story, reported in the Gainsville Times,  underscores the role that recyclers can play in preventing pallet and container theft. In this particular case, the assets stolen were not pallets, but materials theft – copper wire stripped from an elementary school, but it is the process that is important to note. Joe Bullat, the director [...]

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