Millwood Inc. (www.millwoodinc.com), a leader and innovator of unit load and packaging systems, materials and services, has hired John Moore as director - corporate marketing. Moore will oversee and coordinate Millwood’s marketing and communications initiatives across the company’s business units, product lines and national account … [Read more...]
The Challenge of Managing Reusable Assets
May 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Victor Cheng recently of iLogic recently weighed in on the challenges of managing reusable pallets and packaging. Here is his take: In the past couple of decades, we have worked with many returnable asset managers from various industries. It appears that many of us who are involved in the management face a common set of challenges. (Read more.) … [Read more...]
Rousseau Farming Sees Superior Pallet Quality and Greater Customer Value with CHEP Program
May 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Rousseau Farming Company, a leading grower and shipper of vegetables, onions and watermelons from Arizona, has announced the signing of a new multi-year contract with CHEP, an industry leader in pallet and container pooling solutions. Rousseau Farming transports its Rousseau(R) and Pacific(R) brand produce from its 10,000-acre farm in Phoenix, … [Read more...]
Earth Day and Reusables
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
With Earth Day taking place on April 22, we see many companies and organizations stepping forward to celebrate their efforts towards achieving sustainability goals. For example, Walmart has posted its Global Responsibility Report, including its top ten achievements, including its top accomplishment, an 80 percent reduction in waste generation. … [Read more...]
Brambles Limited Investment Marketing Briefing 2012
March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Brambles Limited held its 2012 Investment Market Briefing in Zurich, Switzerland, from Tuesday, 20 March through to Thursday, 22 March. The comprehensive presentations included operations and strategy reviews across all three of Brambles' pooling solutions segments: Pallets, RPCs and Containers. Zurich made an interesting choice in that it is home … [Read more...]
Rehrig Pacific Logistics Diversifies to Serve Packaging Niches
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Brambles Provides Historical View of Performance Under Segmental Reporting Structure
January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Universal Package Systems Increases Facility Size by 35%
December 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Pallet Demand to Increase Through 2015
October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
(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 Report Linker. This pace will represent a rebound from … [Read more...]
FEFPEB Launches Pan-European Campaign to Promote Timber
October 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
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, … [Read more...]
