Rehrig Pacific Logistics Diversifies to Serve Packaging Niches

By Chaille Brindley Date Posted: 2/1/2012 Increasingly companies in the pallet and packaging industries are talking about diversification as a core strategy to deal with the changing business landscape. Rehrig Pacific Logistics (www.rehriglogistics.com) is one of the rare companies that has successfully morphed from its focus on pallets and containers to handling a wide variety [...]

Brambles Provides Historical View of Performance Under Segmental Reporting Structure

Brambles Limited announced a new segmental reporting structure with its full-year results on 17 August 2011. The company will report its half-year results on 16 February 2012 using this structure, which comprises the following four segments: .. Pallets – comprising all CHEP pallet operations globally. Brambles will report results for the Pallets segment in three [...]

Universal Package Systems Increases Facility Size by 35%

Universal Package Systems, a manufacturer and marketer of material handling products including new and used bulk containers, totes, sleeve packs, hopper bottom containers, feed and seed boxes, pallets, custom containers and dunnage recently added 10,000 square feet to its facility, bringing its total manufacturing and warehouse space to over 40,000 square feet. The company offers [...]

Pallet Demand to Increase Through 2015

(If you are a dedicated PR reader, you may recall we covered this in May, but Report Linker has released this news again, and so we’ll play along). US demand for pallets is forecast to rise 6.1 percent per year to 1.3 billion pallets in 2015, valued at $15 billion, according to a report from [...]

FEFPEB Launches Pan-European Campaign to Promote Timber

The European Federation of Wooden Pallet and Packaging manufacturers (FEFPEB) has announced a new public relations campaign to promote wood as the raw material of choice for pallets and packaging. Entitled ‘Packaging from Nature’, the initiative will communicate the economic and environmental benefits of timber use in packaging and pallets, particularly compared with alternative materials. [...]

No Domestic ISPM-15 Requirement – TIMCON Comments on ISPM 15 Developments in the U.S.

The Timber Packaging & Pallet Confederation (TIMCON) says it is continuing to monitor international developments on potential regulation of wood packaging material (WPM) movements, following the announcement that ISPM 15 will not, for the moment, be introduced uniformly for domestic WPM movements in the US market. Following a risk assessment that demonstrated no clear link [...]

Millwood Launches New Website

Millwood, Inc. (www.millwoodinc.com), an industry leading solution provider of unit load and packaging materials and services, has launched a newly-designed website. The redesign focused on creating a site that is cleaner, more informative, simple to navigate and easier to use. The new site brings together content and contact information from Millwood’s key areas of expertise [...]

Ultima Foods Selects CHEP Pallet Program to Improve Pallet Quality and Administration, Food Safety and Customer Service

Ultima Foods, Inc., one of the leading Canadian producers and distributors of yogurt and fresh dairy products,  has signed a new contract to transport its products on pallets from CHEP. Ultima Foods now ships Yoplait yogurt and other fresh dairy products on CHEP pallets from the company’s plant in Granby, Quebec to supermarkets, mass retailers, [...]

Loscam Pallets: Metro Moves to Standardise Returnable Packaging in Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City was the venue for Metro’s vendor workshop on step change, and it was open to all suppliers of the cash-and-carry operation who wanted to know more about process transformation. The Vietnamese firm outlined their plans for expansion, detailing their central warehouse functions, pallet handling and quality assurance as proponents to the [...]

Bob Moore of iGPS Wins Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010

Bob Moore, Chairman, CEO, iGPS, has been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 national winner in the Emerging category. Now in its 24th year, Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year® is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The award encourages entrepreneurial activity and recognizes leaders and visionaries who [...]

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