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US demand for pallets to rise 6.1% annually through 2015

Posted May 31, 2011

Accord­ing to the lat­est study of the pal­let mar­ket by the Free­do­nia Group the US demand for pal­lets is fore­cast to rise 6.1 per­cent per year to 1.3 bil­lion pal­lets in 2015, val­ued at $15 bil­lion. This pace will rep­re­sent a rebound from the 2005– 2010 period, when demand fell 4.5 per­cent annu­ally, reflect­ing the decline in man­u­fac­tur­ers’ ship­ments between 2007 and 2009 and only the par­tial rebound through 2010. Through 2015, pal­let demand gains will be dri­ven by an expected advance in man­u­fac­tur­ers’ ship­ments from their low 2010 base. …read more

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Using reusables to their max

Posted May 30, 2011

Many com­pa­nies are reap­ing the finan­cial and envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits of using reusable pack­ag­ing. But every sup­ply chain is dif­fer­ent, so com­pa­nies must iden­tify and mea­sure their unique fac­tors to deter­mine whether reusables are the right solu­tion…read more

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Brambles Launches IFCO Integration Website to Provide Continuous Updates to Key Stakeholders

Posted May 4, 2011

ORLANDO, Fla. & HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brambles is pleased to intro­duce www.globalrpcpalletsolutions.com, a resource for the most cur­rent infor­ma­tion regard­ing its inte­gra­tion of IFCO Sys­tems, the inter­na­tional logis­tics ser­vice provider it acquired on 4 April 2011. The pur­pose of the web­site is to com­mu­ni­cate key infor­ma­tion regard­ing the inte­gra­tion to Bram­bles’ stake­hold­ers, includ­ing employ­ees, cus­tomers, strate­gic part­ners …read more

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Driscoll Strawberry Associates Pursues Environmental Impact Benefits from CHEP Pallet Pool Program

Posted May 4, 2011

Driscoll Straw­berry Asso­ciates, the world’s lead­ing pro­ducer of fresh berries, is fur­ther advanc­ing its envi­ron­men­tal ini­tia­tives through a unique part­ner­ship with CHEP, an indus­try leader in pal­let and con­tainer pool­ing solu­tions. …read more

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Trends in meat, poultry and seafood packaging

Posted May 4, 2011

Food Pro­duc­tion Daily By Rory Har­ring­ton, 04-May-2011 An ongo­ing shift to case ready pack­ag­ing and the growth of value-added fea­tures in packs are two fac­tors fore­cast to boost US demand for meat, poul­try and seafood pack­ag­ing to US$9.2bn by 2015, said a new report. Mar­ket ana­lysts The Free­do­nia Group added that flex­i­ble pack­ag­ing growth would …read more

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IFCO Introduces New RPCs for Bananas, Berries and Eggs

Posted May 3, 2011

IFCO SYSTEMS is pleased to intro­duce three new addi­tions to its exist­ing port­fo­lio of reusable plas­tic con­tain­ers (RPCs) for three dif­fer­ent com­modi­ties: bananas; eggs; and straw­ber­ries. Each of the new con­tain­ers was specif­i­cally designed to meet the unique needs of its respec­tive prod­uct, ensur­ing higher qual­ity at the retail store and greater sup­ply chain effi­cien­cies. These new RPCs are cur­rent exam­ples of how IFCO cre­ates value by pro­vid­ing inno­v­a­tive return­able trans­port pack­ag­ing solu­tions to retail­ers.…read more

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StopWaste.Org Wins $499K EPA Grant to Take “Use Reusables” National

StopWaste.Org Wins $499K EPA Grant to Take “Use Reusables” National

Posted May 2, 2011

Alameda County pub­lic agency StopWaste.Org has been awarded $499,000 in U.S. EPA grant fund­ing to expand the reach of their suc­cess­ful “Use Reusables” cam­paign (www.usereusables.com) to busi­nesses and com­mu­ni­ties nation­wide, over the next three years. …read more

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