May 2012

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Technology Container Corporation Joins Reusable Packaging Association

Tech­nol­ogy Con­tainer Cor­po­ra­tion (TCC), the world’s largest cor­ru­gated plas­tic box man­u­fac­turer, has joined the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion to help increase its mar­ket expo­sure.…read more

Millwood Hires New Director – Corporate Marketing

Millwood Hires New Director – Corporate Marketing

Mill­wood Inc., 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 devel­op­ment. He will also assist with mar­ket research, includ­ing the eval­u­a­tion …read more

Call for Presentations: PACK EXPO Conference Sessions

The Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (RPA) is now accept­ing pro­pos­als from mem­ber com­pa­nies for our upcom­ing Con­fer­ence Pro­gram at PACK EXPO in Chicago. The RPA will host the Sus­tain­abil­ity Track at the con­fer­ence and have saved a few slots for mem­ber pre­sen­ta­tions.…read more

Member Spotlight: Dan Lafond, Sales Manager, Rehrig Pacific Company; Member RPA Board of Directors

Dan Lafond has been with the Rehrig Pacific Com­pany for over seven years. Dur­ing his tenure at Rehrig, Mr. Lafond has held a vari­ety of sales posi­tions within the Food & Bev­er­age, Mate­r­ial Han­dling and, most recently, Sup­ply Chain Solu­tions group.…read more

Girton Manufacturing and Formall Join Reusable Packaging Association

For­mall Inc. and Gir­ton Man­u­fac­tur­ing Com­pany have joined the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion. …read more

Standardized RPC labeling drive endorsed by retailers

The Packer.com Tom Karst Three large retail­ers have accepted a new label stan­dard for return­able plas­tic con­tain­ers, with trace­abil­ity in mind. Kroger, Loblaw and Safe­way accept a four-inch by two-inch RPC label as the new stan­dard as part of indus­try col­lab­o­ra­tion related to the Pro­duce Trace­abil­ity Ini­tia­tive. The stan­dard­ized label pro­vides a cost effec­tive solu­tion for pro­duce …read more

Sustainable Supply Chain Data Book

Envi­ron­men­tal Leader has released a new Sus­tain­able Sup­ply Chain Data Book, sup­ply­ing busy exec­u­tives and research teams with a col­lec­tion of charts pre­sent­ing envi­ron­men­tal, sus­tain­abil­ity and energy-related logis­tics and sup­ply chain data. Data top­ics include pack­ag­ing & recy­cling, strat­egy, emis­sions & pol­icy, vehi­cles and fuel and con­sumers.…read more