Member Spotlight:   Lane Pence, Director Retail Supply Chain, CHEP

Member Spotlight: Lane Pence, Director Retail Supply Chain, CHEP

Lane Pence, Direc­tor Retail Sup­ply Chain has held numer­ous roles at CHEP, but he enjoys his cur­rent posi­tion best because it puts him in direct con­tact with end users…read more

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RPA Reusable Packaging Pavilion at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to Feature 30 Exhibitors

The RPA Reusable Pack­ag­ing Pavil­ion at this year’s PACK EXPO Las Vegas will be the largest ever with 30 exhibitors fea­tur­ing close to 12,000 sq. ft. of exhibits focused on reusable trans­port pack­ag­ing prod­ucts and solu­tions. …read more

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Make Reusable Assets Show Returnable Value

Make Reusable Assets Show Returnable Value

The Octo­ber issue of Mate­r­ial Han­dling and Logis­tics mag­a­zine includes a cover story by RPA mem­ber Keith Schall. In the arti­cle, “Make Reusable Assets Show Return­able Value”, Schall lays out four steps for imple­ment­ing an effec­tive sys­tem to track and man­age reusable assets…read more

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Mapping Reusables Into Your Supply Chain

Mapping Reusables Into Your Supply Chain

Reusable pack­ag­ing can deliver cost sav­ings, increased mate­r­ial han­dling effi­cien­cies and reduce a company’s envi­ron­men­tal foot­print. How­ever, the imple­men­ta­tion of reusable pack­ag­ing will have a sig­nif­i­cant impact on many inter­nal processes as well as those of sup­pli­ers through­out a sup­ply chain. …read more

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Food Logistics: Sustainable Pallets, Packages and More

Food Logis­tics Mag­a­zine writes that “sus­tain­able pal­lets, pack­ag­ing and con­tain­ers offer many advan­tages within the sup­ply chain. Com­pa­nies are offer­ing green prod­ucts that pro­vide dura­bil­ity while reduc­ing over­all costs, decrease pos­si­bil­ity of cross-contamination, offer bet­ter pro­tec­tion while trans­port­ing goods, and increase over­all effi­ciency. Sus­tain­abil­ity is ulti­mately more than plas­tic vs. wood pal­lets, as both offer …read more

ORBIS CORPORATION INTRODUCES NEW BEVERAGE PALLET

ORBIS Cor­po­ra­tion, a man­u­fac­turer of sus­tain­able reusable pack­ag­ing and an expert in sup­ply chain opti­miza­tion, has intro­duced the all-plastic 1420mm x 1120mm Bev­er­age Pal­let, a pal­let designed for opti­mum con­veyance of a wide vari­ety of plas­tic and metal con­tain­ers for the Asian bev­er­age indus­try.…read more

RPA Thanks its 2012 PACK EXPO Sponsors

Black Forest Container Systems Joins Reusable Packaging Association

Black For­est Con­tainer Sys­tems, LLC has joined the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion to strengthen its out­reach on the ben­e­fits of reusable pack­ag­ing. The com­pany will exhibit in the RPA’s Reusable Pack­ag­ing Pavil­ion at PACK EXPO in Las Vegas, bring­ing the total num­ber of exhibitors to 32.…read more

Buckhorn® product donations support active military and veterans

Mil­ford, Ohio – April 30, 2013 – Buck­horn Inc., a lead­ing provider of reusable plas­tic pack­ag­ing and mate­r­ial han­dling sys­tems, has col­lec­tively donated more than $10,000 worth of hand-held con­tain­ers to orga­ni­za­tions that touch the lives of our U.S. active mil­i­tary and vet­er­ans. Most recently, Buck­horn donated attached lid and straight wall con­tain­ers to Ride …read more

RPA Accepting Submissions for Second Annual Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award

The Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion is accept­ing sub­mis­sions for its sec­ond annual Excel­lence in Reusable Pack­ag­ing Award. The award is designed to rec­og­nize com­pa­nies that have devel­oped, sup­ported, or imple­mented mea­sur­able and inno­v­a­tive reusable solu­tions in a business-to-business sup­ply chain. …read more