2012

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Member Spotlight: Brian P. Martin, Vice President, Remcon Plastics

Member Spotlight: Brian P. Martin, Vice President, Remcon Plastics

RPA inter­views Brian Mar­tin, VP of Rem­con Plas­tics and one of the new mem­bers join­ing RPA in 2012. Before join­ing Rem­con Plas­tics, Brian Mar­tin worked 14 years in the steel indus­try with Nucor Steel and Handy & Har­man in a vari­ety of posi­tions. Prior to that, he worked for three years with Cer­tain­Teed Cor­po­ra­tion.…read more

RPA 2012 PACK EXPO Educational Conference Presentations Posted in Online Library

For the third con­sec­u­tive year, the RPA spon­sored an edu­ca­tional track at PACK EXPO, pro­vid­ing an oppor­tu­nity to edu­cate atten­dees about the ben­e­fits of reusables in gen­eral as well as pro­mote reusable trans­port pack­ag­ing ser­vices and prod­ucts. The pre­sen­ta­tions are now posted in the RPA’s online con­tent library…read more

Herman Miller, NOVA Chemicals Join Reusable Packaging Association

Two dis­sim­i­lar com­pa­nies with a com­mon inter­est in the value of reusables have joined the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion, broad­en­ing the Association’s reach and exper­tise.…read more

CAPS Introduces Northern Arkansas Service Center

CAPS intro­duces its newest ship­ping con­tainer ser­vice cen­ter, based in Low­ell, Arkansas. Increased cus­tomer demand in the cen­tral region of the coun­try drove the company’s deci­sion to launch its most recent facil­ity as part of an ongo­ing national ser­vice cen­ter net­work expan­sion strat­egy.…read more

CAPS Enhances Container Tracking Capabilities to Support Customer Quality Initiatives as Food Industry Standards Increase Accountability Requirements

CAPS Enhances Container Tracking Capabilities to Support Customer Quality Initiatives as Food Industry Standards Increase Accountability Requirements

CAPS (www.usecaps.com) proudly announces recent enhance­ments to its pro­pri­etary con­tainer track­ing soft­ware, CAPS-TRAC™, enabling users to cap­ture, store and report on newly added data points. In addi­tion to track­ing indi­vid­ual con­tainer IDs and con­tents, cus­tomers now have the abil­ity to track crit­i­cal quality-related data through­out the sup­ply chain includ­ing prod­uct tem­per­a­ture, weight, safety seal num­bers, and more. …read more

RPA Adopts New Strategic Plan to Deliver More Value for Members

In early Octo­ber the Board of the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion adopted a new long-range Strate­gic Plan. The plan was devel­oped to deliver more ben­e­fits to cur­rent and poten­tial mem­bers while also advanc­ing the reusable pack­ag­ing indus­try.…read more

ORBIS REUSABLE PACKAGING MANAGEMENT ENHANCES ITS SMARTTRAKASSET TRACKING SOFTWARE

ORBIS RPM col­lab­o­rates with Today IT to cus­tomize and deploy soft­ware that offers vis­i­bil­ity of pack­ag­ing through­out the global sup­ply chain…read more

Use Reusables Campaign Now Accepting Grant Applications

The “Use Reusables” cam­paign, led by pub­lic agency Stopwaste.Org, has released its sec­ond round of grant fund­ing for orga­ni­za­tions that are plan­ning to incor­po­rate reusable pack­ag­ing into their trans­porta­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tems. Eli­gi­ble projects include those that replace sin­gle– or limited-use pack­ag­ing with durable pal­lets, totes or bins, reusable pal­let wrap or other pack­ag­ing solu­tions that sig­nif­i­cantly reduce expend­able pack­ag­ing. …read more

Plastic thefts now a multimillion-dollar criminal business

Plastic thefts now a multimillion-dollar criminal business

Edi­tors note the fol­low arti­cle was pub­lished in dailybreeze.com By Phillip Zonkel Staff Writer DOWNEY — A crim­i­nal enter­prise of plas­tic ban­dits has been rob­bing Rock­view Farms dairy. Thieves have been steal­ing about 1,100 of the company’s plas­tic milk crates every day from gro­cery store load­ing docks or dis­tri­b­u­tion ware­houses, said Bill Kroese, Rockview’s direc­tor of …read more

Member Spotlight: Glen M. Baldridge, CEO, Federal Supply Services Int. LLC

Member Spotlight: Glen M. Baldridge, CEO, Federal Supply Services Int. LLC

RPA mem­ber Glen Baldridge of Fed­eral Sup­ply Ser­vices pro­vides some insight on what it is like to serve the mil­i­tary mar­ket.…read more

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