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Flo-Pallet Inc. Joins Reusable Packaging Association

Posted February 29, 2012

Flo-Pallet Inc., a provider of a new highly spe­cial­ized mate­r­ial and man­u­fac­tur­ing process for reusable pal­lets, has joined the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion. The com­pany joined the RPA dur­ing the recent MODEX show in Atlanta.…read more

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Managing and Tracking Reusable Assets

Posted February 27, 2012

By imple­ment­ing reusable trans­port pack­ag­ing into their sup­ply chains, many com­pa­nies are gain­ing finan­cial and envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits. How­ever, reach­ing this state requires con­sid­er­able ini­tial plan­ning as well as ongo­ing fine-tuning of oper­a­tions. …read more

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Member Spotlight : Al Farrell, VP Asset Management, iGPS, Member RPA Board of Directors

Posted February 24, 2012

Al Far­rell is a newly elected mem­ber of the RPA Board of Direc­tors and is VP Asset Man­age­ment for Intel­li­gent Global Pool­ing Sys­tems (iGPS Com­pany LLC) is rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing the world’s sup­ply chain by pro­vid­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers, sup­pli­ers and ship­pers of uni­tized loads with the world’s first RFID-tagged all-plastic pal­let pool. …read more

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Worldwide Foam Ltd Joins Reusable Packaging Association

Worldwide Foam Ltd Joins Reusable Packaging Association

Posted February 20, 2012

World­wide Foam Ltd. has joined the grow­ing num­ber of com­pa­nies that are lever­ag­ing the ben­e­fits of the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (RPA). The com­pany joined the RPA dur­ing the recent MODEX show in Atlanta.…read more

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Kroger Marks Logistics Milestone

Posted February 14, 2012

Kroger Co., Cincin­nati, marked the deliv­ery of its 20 bil­lionth pound of pro­duce deliv­ered to its dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter here in reusable plas­tic con­tain­ers (RPCs) pro­vided by IFCO, Tampa, Fla.…read more

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ORBIS Announces New General Manager for CORBI

Posted February 13, 2012

ORBIS Cor­po­ra­tion, a man­u­fac­turer of sus­tain­able reusable pack­ag­ing and an expert in sup­ply chain opti­miza­tion, has named Chad Fee­han gen­eral man­ager of pool­ing ser­vices for its CORBI sub­sidiary. He joined CORBI in June 2011 as chief finan­cial offi­cer.…read more

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Survey Provides Snapshot of U.S. Pallet Industry

Posted February 1, 2012

Researchers from Vir­ginia Tech con­duct sur­vey of pal­let indus­try, detect major trend, includ­ing a few sur­prises. …read more

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Menasha Packaging Announces Acquisition of the Strive Group

Posted February 1, 2012

Menasha Pack­ag­ing Com­pany announced today that it has acquired The Strive Group of Chicago. Both com­pa­nies are family-owned and pri­vately held. Terms of the trans­ac­tion were not dis­closed.…read more

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