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Reusable Packaging Association Announces 2012 Board of Directors

Posted December 21, 2011

Arling­ton, VA, Decem­ber 21, 2011 — The mem­ber­ship of the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (RPA) has approved its Board of Direc­tors for 2012. The eight Board mem­bers will con­tribute their exper­tise and expe­ri­ence to help the Asso­ci­a­tion fur­ther its mis­sion of pro­mot­ing the value and expan­sion of reusable pack­ag­ing sys­tems. The can­di­dates will serve two-year terms begin­ning Jan. 1, 2012 and end­ing Dec. 31, 2014.

New mem­bers of the board are:

• Hillary Femal, Direc­tor of Strate­gic Mar­ket Devel­op­ment, IFCO
• Al Far­rell, Vice Pres­i­dent of Asset Man­age­ment, iGPS
• Dan Lafond, Sales Man­ager, Rehrig Pacific
• Phil Davis, Senior Per­ish­able Sup­ply Chain Man­ager, The Kroger Com­pany
• Carl Glick, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent of Oper­a­tions, Poly­mer Logis­tics
• Dave Har­vey, Direc­tor Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, IPL, Inc.
• Norm Kukuk, Vice Pres­i­dent, Prod­uct Man­age­ment, ORBIS Cor­po­ra­tion
• Lane Pence, Direc­tor Growth Strat­egy, CHEP

Hillary Femal also will serve as the Chair­per­son of the RPA Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mit­tee, and Lane Pence will con­tinue in his role as Chair­man of the RPA Indus­try Rela­tions Committee.

About the Board Members

Phil Davis, Senior Per­ish­ables Sup­ply Chain Man­ager, The Kroger Company

Mr. Davis’ career with The Kroger Com­pany has spanned more than 37 years. He began as a stock clerk and advanced through var­i­ous posi­tions in Pro­duce Pro­cure­ment and Mer­chan­dis­ing, Flo­ral Dis­tri­b­u­tion, Per­ish­able Freight Man­age­ment, and Per­ish­able Sup­ply Chain Man­age­ment. Mr. Davis spear­headed the inter­nal project con­ver­sion by Kroger to adapt a reusable pack­ag­ing sys­tem for many of their com­modi­ties. He has been a key advi­sor to the RPA’s RPC Label Stan­dard­iza­tion: Guide­lines & Best Prac­tices Task Force, and also served as an advi­sor to the RPA Asset Recov­ery Committee.

Carl Glick, Vice Pres­i­dent of Oper­a­tions, Poly­mer Logistics

Carl Glick is cur­rently VP of Sales with Poly­mer Logis­tics. Carl has had mul­ti­ple posi­tions in the return­able pack­ag­ing indus­try over the last 13 years. Pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence includes VP of Oper­a­tions, asset man­age­ment direc­tor, to cur­rent posi­tion of VP of Sales with Poly­mer Logis­tics. Prior to work­ing in the RPC indus­try Carl has sev­eral years of expe­ri­ence in the poul­try pro­cess­ing indutry. Carl has worked with both start-up com­pa­nies and estab­lished larger com­pa­nies. He holds a BS in Busi­ness Man­age­ment from Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­sity, Chico.

Al Far­rell, Vice Pres­i­dent of Asset Man­age­ment, iGPS

Mr. Far­rell has had a suc­cess­ful career as an invest­ment banker, finance and trea­sury exec­u­tive, and entre­pre­neur. At JP Mor­gan Secu­ri­ties and Bank of Amer­ica Secu­ri­ties, he advised on M&A trans­ac­tions, invested pri­vate equity and has raised over $6 bil­lion of debt and equity cap­i­tal work­ing with com­pa­nies in diverse indus­tries includ­ing con­sumer pack­aged goods, retail, man­u­fac­tur­ing, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, and tech­nol­ogy. Mr. Far­rell also has a broad range of man­age­ment and entre­pre­neur­ial expe­ri­ence and has served as the chief finan­cial offi­cer of sev­eral high growth com­pa­nies. He holds an MBA with hon­ors from the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago Grad­u­ate School of Business.

Hillary Femal, Direc­tor of Strate­gic Mar­ket Devel­op­ment, IFCO SYSTEMS N.A., Inc.

Ms. Femal has been with IFCO for more than seven years. She has held var­i­ous mar­ket­ing posi­tions with the com­pany, most recently as Mar­ket­ing Direc­tor respon­si­ble for both the Pal­let Man­age­ment and RPC Man­age­ment Ser­vices divi­sions. In her cur­rent posi­tion, Ms. Femal is the Direc­tor of Strate­gic Mar­ket Devel­op­ment for IFCO’s North Amer­i­can RPC busi­ness, encom­pass­ing mar­ket­ing, busi­ness devel­op­ment, and indus­try rela­tions. Prior to IFCO, she worked for Enter­prise Rent-a-Car in Tampa, Florida.

Ms. Femal is a grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­sity of Virginia’s McIn­tire School of Busi­ness and holds an MBA from the Uni­ver­sity of Florida.

Norm Kukuk, Vice Pres­i­dent Prod­uct Man­age­ment, ORBIS Corporation

With more than a decade of expe­ri­ence in the reusable pack­ag­ing indus­try, Mr. Kukuk has devel­oped and shared reusable pack­ag­ing exper­tise with lead­ing indus­trial, con­sumer goods, food and bev­er­age com­pa­nies. He cur­rently pro­vides lead­er­ship for ORBIS’s mar­ket­ing and prod­uct devel­op­ment efforts, includ­ing the plan­ning, devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of strate­gic mar­ket­ing plans and goals. He dri­ves ini­tia­tives and pric­ing strate­gies that result in improved mar­ket share, increased rev­enue and enhanced profit mar­gins. Dur­ing his time with ORBIS, he has led efforts to develop inno­v­a­tive new pack­ag­ing prod­ucts, expand into inter­na­tional mar­kets and drive oper­a­tional efficiency.

Mr. Kukuk works closely with the sales orga­ni­za­tion to develop account man­age­ment strate­gies and iden­tify new oppor­tu­ni­ties. As a vet­eran of the reusable pack­ag­ing indus­try, he has strong rela­tion­ships with trade asso­ci­a­tions, indus­try lead­ers and key cus­tomers. His under­grad­u­ate degree is from Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity and he holds an M.B.A. from the Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Dan Lafond, Sales Man­ager, Sup­ply Chain Solu­tions Group, Rehrig Pacific Com­pany

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. He started at Rehrig Pacific as a Sales Rep­re­sen­ta­tive and has devel­oped National Account man­age­ment expe­ri­ence in the bev­er­age indus­try and at large retail accounts. Within the Sup­ply Chain Solu­tions Group, he cur­rently man­ages the South Region of the United States. This region con­sists of a team that man­ages regional and national accounts, devel­ops new prod­ucts, and imple­ments sup­ply chain ser­vice and asset man­age­ment pro­grams among retail­ers and man­u­fac­tur­ers. Mr. Lafond resides in Dal­las, TX. He is a grad­u­ate of Stone­hill Col­lege in Massachusetts.

Lane Pence, Direc­tor Growth Strat­egy, CHEP Americas

CHEP is the global leader in pal­let and con­tainer pool­ing ser­vices, serv­ing many of the world’s largest com­pa­nies. Mr. Pence joined CHEP in 1998 and has held roles in oper­a­tions, global sourc­ing, sales, con­sult­ing and strat­egy. He leads a team that has exe­cuted platform-based sup­ply chain con­sult­ing engage­ments around the world, with expe­ri­ence in new coun­try entry, new prod­uct appli­ca­tions, new cus­tomer devel­op­ment and new chan­nel entry. Mr. Pence was involved in pio­neer­ing RFID devel­op­ment, includ­ing the first suc­cess­ful test of RFID tags in pal­lets in 2002. He has worked with many reusable assets includ­ing pal­lets, con­tain­ers, reusable plas­tic con­tain­ers, inter­me­di­ate bulk con­tain­ers and display-ready plat­forms. He has worked with small gro­cery man­u­fac­tur­ers to some of the world’s largest man­u­fac­tur­ers, dis­trib­u­tors and retail­ers. Mr. Pence has held pre­vi­ous roles in mar­ket­ing, busi­ness devel­op­ment and asset dis­po­si­tion with Enter­prise Leas­ing. He is a Six Sigma green¬belt and holds a B.S. in Busi­ness from Miami University.

Dave Har­vey, Direc­tor Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, IPL, Inc.
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About the RPA
The Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion is a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort between man­u­fac­tur­ers, pool­ers, dis­trib­u­tors, retail­ers and edu­ca­tors to pro­mote the envi­ron­men­tal, safety, and eco­nomic ben­e­fits of reusable pack­ag­ing. The RPA serves as the col­lec­tive voice of the indus­try and uses its knowl­edge of the mem­bers’ prod­ucts and ser­vices to advance the adop­tion of reusable pack­ag­ing and sys­tems through­out the sup­ply chain. The RPA is focused on pro­mot­ing the expan­sion of reusables as the pre­ferred pack­ag­ing solu­tion across sup­ply chains in all indus­tries. For more infor­ma­tion, visit http://www.reusables.org or call (703) 224 8284.

Media con­tact: Jerry Wel­come
1100 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 1010
Arling­ton, VA 22201
Phone: 703−224−8284 Fax: 703−243−5612
Email: info@reusables.org
Web Site: www.reusables.org

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Long-awaited FDA food safety rule finally coming

Posted December 14, 2011

Tom Karst
The Packer Daily

The long-anticipated pro­duce safety reg­u­la­tion from the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion will be issued soon after the first of the year, FDA offi­cials say.

“The FDA plans pub­lish­ing the pro­duce safety pro­posed rule in early 2012,” Sebas­t­ian Cianci, spokesman for the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion said in a Dec. 12 e-mail.

Speak­ing dur­ing the Dec. 5–7 Wash­ing­ton State Hor­ti­cul­tural Asso­ci­a­tion meet­ing in Wenatchee, Wash., Jim Gorny, senior adviser for pro­duce safety at the Food and Drug Administration’s Cen­ter for Food Safety and Applied Nutri­tion, told indus­try mem­bers that the rule had already been sub­mit­ted to the Office of Man­age­ment and Bud­get for their final review and approval.

That tim­ing is sooner than antic­i­pated, said Chris Schlect, pres­i­dent of the of the North­west Hor­ti­cul­tural Coun­cil, Yakima, Wash.

“There are a lot of ques­tions and we’ll see when they issue the pro­posed reg­u­la­tion just what they con­tem­plate doing,” he said.

Schlect said the FDA will appar­ently approach pro­duce safety reg­u­la­tions by look­ing at grow­ing prac­tices rather than try­ing to iden­tify some com­modi­ties as “high risk.”

That is a con­cern to the tree fruit indus­try, Schlect said, since fruits like apples, pears and cher­ries have not his­tor­i­cally had food safety issues. On the other hand, the diver­sity of field crops would make it unwieldy to address each crop with sep­a­rate reg­u­la­tions. “It is highly likely the focus will be on spe­cific prac­tices, whether is irri­ga­tion, employee hygiene, ani­mal exclu­sion and other prac­tices and not as much into spe­cific crop list­ing of high risk or low risk for crops,” Schlect said.

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Replace Disposables with Reusables

Posted December 9, 2011

Editor’s Note:  The fol­low­ing arti­cle was pub­lished in the Decem­ber 7, online Mate­r­ial Han­dling and Logis­tics mag­a­zine. 

By: Justin Lehrer, Pro­gram Man­ager at the Stop­Waste Busi­ness Part­ner­ship

Many com­pa­nies are pres­sured to make their oper­a­tions as effi­cient as pos­si­ble to stay prof­itable and com­pet­i­tive. At the same time, envi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tions and require­ments are adding pressure—especially those related to green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions. This is of par­tic­u­lar impor­tance to logis­tics and sup­ply chain man­agers. After all, pro­duc­ing and trans­port­ing goods is respon­si­ble for about one third of the nation’s GHG emissions.

The good news is that efforts to boost effi­ciency and decrease envi­ron­men­tal impacts can go hand in hand and pro­vide mutual syn­er­gies. Case in point: trans­port pack­ag­ing materials.

Those who have suc­cess­fully switched to reusables report sig­nif­i­cant sav­ings as well as a dra­mat­i­cally reduced envi­ron­men­tal foot­print, along with an over­all increase in effi­ciency and improve­ments in other areas:

➤ Cost: Reusables last longer, low­er­ing mate­r­ial costs over time and nearly elim­i­nat­ing costs for dis­posal of pack­ag­ing waste right away.

➤ Envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance: Stud­ies have shown that reusables gen­er­ate 95% less waste and 29% fewer green­house gas emis­sions, and require 39% less energy than limited-use packaging.

➤ Oper­a­tional effi­ciency: Reusables’ stan­dard­ized and durable design helps stream­line pro­duc­tion processes and makes truck­ing and load­ing dock oper­a­tions more efficient.

➤ Prod­uct pro­tec­tion: Reusables are typ­i­cally more resis­tant to chem­i­cals and mois­ture, offer stronger insu­la­tion and are stur­dier than limited-use packaging.

➤ Worker safety and ergonom­ics: Reusables elim­i­nate box cut­ting, sta­ples and bro­ken pal­lets, and come in stan­dard­ized sizes and weights, reduc­ing worker injuries.

Each sup­ply chain sys­tem is dif­fer­ent and requires a case-by-case eval­u­a­tion to assess if and how reusable trans­port pack­ag­ing will ben­e­fit the orga­ni­za­tion. For exam­ple, reusables gen­er­ally work best for com­pa­nies whose ship­ping sys­tems allow for the return of the empty trans­port pack­ag­ing, either via a closed loop or man­aged open loop system.

This is where the Use Reusables cam­paign can pro­vide assis­tance and resources. Funded in part by the U.S. EPA Cli­mate Show­case Com­mu­ni­ties Pro­gram, the cam­paign is spear­headed by pub­lic agency StopWaste.Org in Oak­land, Calif. Our key cam­paign part­ner is the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (RPA), a non-profit trade asso­ci­a­tion rep­re­sent­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers, dis­trib­u­tors and oth­ers in the reusable trans­port pack­ag­ing industry.

The Use Reusables cam­paign has worked one-on-one with hun­dreds of orga­ni­za­tions through hands-on train­ing work­shops, events, expert advice, grant fund­ing, and a suite of edu­ca­tional materials—all at no charge to par­tic­i­pants. Here are some cases in point:

➤ A choco­late pro­ducer replaced card­board boxes with reusable totes, avoid­ing the pur­chase and dis­posal of 660 tons per year of cor­ru­gated, and pre­vent­ing 800 tons per year of food waste from going to land­fill, due to bet­ter prod­uct pro­tec­tion. Annual net sav­ings exceed $520,000 after a pay­back period of 1.1 years.

➤ A light­ing sys­tems man­u­fac­turer, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with a sup­plier, replaced shrink-wrap with custom-designed reusable tarps to pro­tect light­ing com­po­nents dur­ing tran­sit. The switch elim­i­nates three tons per year of plas­tic film, sav­ing over $10,000 per year and reduc­ing labor costs and time needed to wrap and unwrap the materials.

➤ A food dis­trib­u­tor is in the process of replac­ing 5,000 wood pal­lets with reusable plas­tic pal­lets and elim­i­nat­ing shrink-wrap in favor of large reusable rub­ber bands. Pro­jected waste reduc­tions are over 120 tons per year, plus reduced labor costs from han­dling shrink-wrap and repair­ing dam­aged pallets.

We are now expand­ing the reach of the Use Reusables cam­paign nation­ally with a refined toolkit to guide inter­ested orga­ni­za­tions as they eval­u­ate and imple­ment reusable trans­port pack­ag­ing. Key aspects cov­ered include ini­tial cost analy­sis, sup­ply chain mod­el­ing, financ­ing options, inter­nal stake­holder align­ment and train­ing, out­sourc­ing and inte­gra­tion of reusables into the sup­ply chain and benchmarking.

Sev­eral in-person train­ing work­shops are planned for early 2012. For more infor­ma­tion and to sign up for email noti­fi­ca­tions, visit www.usereusables.com.

Justin Lehrer is a pro­gram man­ager at the Stop­Waste Busi­ness Part­ner­ship (www.StopWastePartnership.Org), a pro­gram of pub­lic agency StopWaste.Org in Oak­land, Calif. He also leads the Use Reusables cam­paign (www.UseReusables.Com), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the RPA. He can be reached at jlehrer@stopwaste.org. The Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion is a part­ner in the Stop­Waste program.

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JSP International Joins Reusable Packaging Association

Posted December 6, 2011

Arling­ton, VA, Decem­ber 6, 2011 – JSP Inter­na­tional, a provider of environmentally-responsible pack­ag­ing solu­tions, has joined the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Association.

With a pres­ence span­ning all key regions of the world, JSP serves the auto­mo­tive indus­try, as well as pack­ag­ing, sports and a vari­ety of con­sumer goods mar­kets. JSP sheet, board and bead prod­ucts pro­vide a diverse range of light­weight and environmentally-responsible pack­ag­ing solu­tions using mold­ing and fab­ri­ca­tion tech­niques. Using its unique mate­r­ial prop­er­ties, JSP prod­ucts pro­vide solu­tions for a wide vari­ety of appli­ca­tions such as reusable ship­ping con­tain­ers for sen­si­tive or valu­able equip­ment, pro­tec­tive prod­uct ‘skins’ that cush­ion inter­nal com­po­nents and pro­vide noise reduc­tion. Its light­weight pack­ag­ing solu­tions offer impact absorp­tion to even com­plex shapes.

Mary Beth Ron­ayne will serve as the company’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the RPA. She is located in Jack­son, Michigan.

“We wel­come JSP to the Asso­ci­a­tion,” said Jerry Wel­come, Pres­i­dent, RPA. “Their inter­na­tional reach will help the RPA stay informed about and respon­sive to reusable efforts world­wide, and we can pro­vide them with valu­able resources to com­ple­ment their sus­tain­abil­ity initiatives.”

About the RPA
The Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion is a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort between man­u­fac­tur­ers, pool­ers, dis­trib­u­tors, retail­ers and edu­ca­tors to pro­mote the envi­ron­men­tal, safety, and eco­nomic ben­e­fits of reusable pack­ag­ing. The RPA serves as the col­lec­tive voice of the indus­try and uses its knowl­edge of the mem­bers’ prod­ucts and ser­vices to advance the adop­tion of reusable pack­ag­ing and sys­tems through­out the sup­ply chain. The RPA is focused on pro­mot­ing the expan­sion of reusables as the pre­ferred pack­ag­ing solu­tion across sup­ply chains in all indus­tries. For more infor­ma­tion, visit http://www.reusables.org or call (703) 224‑8284.

Media con­tact: Jerry Wel­come
1100 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 1010
Arling­ton, VA 22201
Phone: 703−224−8284 Fax: 703−243−5612
Email: info@reusables.org
Web Site: www.reusables.org
 

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RFID brings an added dimension to managing reusable packaging

Posted December 2, 2011

By Pat Reynolds, Editor/VP
Pack­ag­ing World

Reduce, reuse, recy­cle. These have been the three legs of the stool called sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing for about as long as I can remember.

But these days it seems that only two of the three—reduce and recycle—are talked about all that much. So it’s refresh­ing to see recent reports con­firm­ing that reusable con­tain­ers are alive and well.

At Pack Expo Las Vegas, for exam­ple, three promi­nent CPG companies—Coca-Cola, Ghi­rardelli Choco­late, and Alpha Bak­ing Co.—presented their suc­cesses and chal­lenges with reusable pack­ag­ing in the con­fer­ence ses­sions orga­nized by the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion. Alpha Baking’s asset track­ing pilot was espe­cially inter­est­ing because it included the use of RFID. I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that RFID as it relates to pack­ag­ing has gone quiet the past few years. Not long ago, I was awash in press releases tout­ing the won­ders of RFID in pack­ag­ing. Most of them included the pre­dic­tion that as soon
as func­tion­ing RFID tags could be made avail­able for a nickel or less, the use of RFID in the pack­ag­ing arena would become wildly pop­u­lar. But the tags never did make it down to a nickel each. More­over, the use of less costly 2D bar codes caught on and made the need for RFID a lit­tle less critical.

Alpha Baking’s use of RFID involves reusable assets, so the need to have RFID tags cost­ing a nickel or less is not as essen­tial as it is when deal­ing with, for exam­ple, one-way cor­ru­gated ship­pers. Part­ner­ing with Alpha on its pilot were Orbis Corp., injec­tion molder of Alpha’s nestable high-density poly­eth­yl­ene reusable bak­ery trays, and The Kennedy Group, the sup­plier of a reusable asset track­ing appli­ca­tion called ePReusable.

Phase one of the pilot involved tag­ging and track­ing 8% of Alpha’s 350,000 bak­ery trays as they moved from the bakery’s pro­duc­tion plants to its indi­vid­ual ship points. The ePReusable solu­tion allows the bakery’s logis­tics team to gen­er­ate reports with tray des­ti­na­tion points, trip dura­tion time, and the aver­age turn dura­tion per des­ti­na­tion. On top of gain­ing all this added vis­i­bil­ity into its sys­tem, the bak­ery also was able to see loss pat­terns, develop cor­rec­tive actions, and imple­ment new processes to mit­i­gate tray loss and bet­ter uti­lize exist­ing trays in the future.

“We know as an indus­try that we are all expe­ri­enc­ing a great deal of tray loss, but until now, we have been unable to mea­sure and under­stand those losses,” says Bob McGuire, vice pres­i­dent and direc­tor of logis­tics for Alpha Bak­ing and chair­man of the Amer­i­can Bak­ing Asso­ci­a­tion Fleet and Dis­tri­b­u­tion Com­mit­tee. “The use of RFID has quan­ti­fied and defined the root of the prob­lem and helped us take cor­rec­tive action to bet­ter con­trol and uti­lize our bak­ery trays at Alpha Baking.”

McGuire says the pilot pro­gram is now onto Phase Two, which means putting RFID tags on more trays and gain­ing more famil­iar­ity with remain­ing hur­dles that may need to be over­come. Judg­ing by these com­ments he deliv­ered in a video pre­sen­ta­tion that was part of the Pack Expo Las Vegas con­fer­ence ses­sion (www.youtube.com/ORBISCorp#p/a/u/0/YCdWtuMpjHc), McGuire sounds pretty sold on this com­bi­na­tion of reusable pack­ag­ing and RFID tech­nol­ogy: “We send out hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars in reusable assets every day not know­ing if these assets will ever return or how long they’ll be out there. One day we’ll look back and won­der why it took us so long to fig­ure out how to let tech­nol­ogy help us in this area of our busi­ness.”
 

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Bielomatik Inc. Becomes 50th Member of RPA

Posted November 22, 2011

Arling­ton, VA, Novem­ber 22, 2011 — Bielo­matik, a man­u­fac­turer of plas­tic weld­ing sys­tems, has become the 50th mem­ber of the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion. Bielo­matik designs and man­u­fac­tures plas­tic weld­ing sys­tems used in the pro­duc­tion of reusable plas­tic pal­lets. Its cus­tomers include RPA mem­bers ORBIS Cor­po­ra­tion, Buck­horn Inc. and Rehrig Pacific.

“The addi­tion of Bielo­matik to our Asso­ci­a­tion is sig­nif­i­cant for two rea­sons,” said Jerry Wel­come, Pres­i­dent, RPA. “One, we have reached a mile­stone of 50 mem­ber com­pa­nies. Two, it demon­strates the value of the Asso­ci­a­tion to our mem­bers’ sup­pli­ers and their will­ing­ness to join with us to grow the mar­ket­place for reusable pack­ag­ing solutions.”

Bielo­matik is the 5th equip­ment sup­plier to join the asso­ci­a­tion and strength­ens the move­ment toward a more inte­grated indus­try asso­ci­a­tion that rep­re­sents sup­pli­ers, man­u­fac­tur­ers and ser­vice providers of reusable pack­ag­ing sys­tems. The com­pany also is the 20th new mem­ber to join the RPA in 2011. Bielo­matik is located in New Hud­son, Michigan.

About the RPA
The Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion is a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort between man­u­fac­tur­ers, pool­ers, dis­trib­u­tors, retail­ers and edu­ca­tors to pro­mote the envi­ron­men­tal, safety, and eco­nomic ben­e­fits of reusable pack­ag­ing. The RPA serves as the col­lec­tive voice of the indus­try and uses its knowl­edge of the mem­bers’ prod­ucts and ser­vices to advance the adop­tion of reusable pack­ag­ing and sys­tems through­out the sup­ply chain. The RPA is focused on pro­mot­ing the expan­sion of reusables as the pre­ferred pack­ag­ing solu­tion across sup­ply chains in all indus­tries. For more infor­ma­tion, visit http://www.reusables.org or call (703) 224‑8284.

Media con­tact: Jerry Wel­come
1100 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 1010
Arling­ton, VA 22201
Phone: 703−224−8284 Fax: 703−243−5612
Email: info@reusables.org
Web Site: www.reusables.org
 

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Packing Rental and Pooling Models in Perishables

Posted November 21, 2011

Editor’s Note:  The fol­low arti­cle has been authored by Jon Kalin, RPA Imme­di­ate Past Chair­man (ex offi­cio) and Sales and Mar­ket­ing Man­ager, Rehrig Pacific Company

The sup­ply chain for mov­ing pro­duce from field to super­mar­ket has become so effi­cient and far reach­ing that con­sumers take for granted the avail­abil­ity of previously-hard-to-find pro­duce year round in their gro­cery stores. Mov­ing these highly per­ish­able items long dis­tances with min­i­mum spoilage requires a fast mov­ing and sophis­ti­cated sup­ply chain. In order to address these chal­lenges, many com­pa­nies are using reusable plas­tic con­tain­ers (RPCs). And in order to meet their unique sea­sonal and san­i­ta­tion demands of the indus­try, many com­pa­nies con­tract with third-party pool­ers, while oth­ers choose to rent RPCs when peak demand requires addi­tional containers.

In closed-loop appli­ca­tions, many com­pa­nies pur­chase their reusable con­tain­ers. They move the con­tain­ers with their goods from point A to point B, empty the con­tents, and then return them to point A for re-use, keep­ing con­trol of the con­tain­ers and the process through­out the sup­ply chain. How­ever, the long ship­ping dis­tances and sea­son­al­ity asso­ci­ated with the pro­duce indus­try make it bet­ter suited to a rental or pool­ing model. For exam­ple, when a car­rot grower in Bak­ers­field, Cal­i­for­nia ships its prod­uct to upstate New York, it would be dif­fi­cult and costly for them to get their indi­vid­ual crates back. In addi­tion, grow­ers need a large amount of RPCs for only lim­ited times, such as dur­ing peak har­vest peri­ods. Rent­ing or pool­ing addi­tional pack­ag­ing dur­ing these peak times gives them the quan­tity they need with­out hav­ing to out­lay more cap­i­tal or store the unused assets dur­ing low-volume times.

Even if a com­pany decides to pur­chase a core amount of RPCs for year-round ship­ping, it is likely they will use a third-party renter/pooler to pro­vide addi­tional reusables to sup­ple­ment peak demand, or pro­vide con­tainer related ser­vices such as clean­ing, track­ing and/or repair.

Pack­ag­ing pool­ing model

With pack­ag­ing pool­ing, com­pa­nies pro­vide a com­plete pack­ag­ing solu­tion on a pay-per-use basis that includes some or all of the fol­low­ing ser­vices:
• Sin­gle use rental of pack­ag­ing
• Pack­ag­ing deliv­ery
• Pack­ag­ing track­ing
• Pack­ag­ing pick-up
• Pack­ag­ing clean­ing and main­te­nance
• Off­site pack­ag­ing storage

A pack­ag­ing pooler takes on the com­plex­ity and pro­vides the infra­struc­ture nec­es­sary for the pro­duce sup­ply chain. These ser­vices include con­tainer clean­ing, track­ing, reverse logis­tics, stor­age, and man­age­ment. The pooler’s role is to ensure that a com­pany always has the right con­tainer, in the right place, at the right time so the com­pany can focus 100% of its energy on its core competencies.

Here is a typ­i­cal sce­nario of a pool­ing model within the pro­duce indus­try. First, RPCs are placed at the grower/shipper. Toma­toes, let­tuce etc. can be har­vested in the field and placed directly into an RPC. These RPCs with the pro­duce in them can be sent through the pro­duce cool­ing and pro­cess­ing facil­ity at the grower. From there, the pro­duce is sent to the retail dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter (DC) in full uni­tized loads or truck­loads. Because reusable pro­duce con­tain­ers offer improved ven­ti­la­tion that removes field heat faster, there is less prod­uct spoilage dur­ing ship­ping. At the DC, a num­ber of dif­fer­ent com­modi­ties are picked and stacked into a truck and then sent to a des­ig­nated store loca­tion. At some stores, work­ers place the produce-filled con­tain­ers directly on dis­play. This display-ready tac­tic is being explored by more retail­ers today.

After the store is done with the RPCs, work­ers eas­ily col­lapse, fold and store the empty con­tain­ers. A reverse logis­tics provider picks up the col­lapsed RPCs, along with pal­lets, shrink wrap, and other pack­ag­ing that the stores no longer need, and sends them to a Reverse Logis­tic Cen­ter (RLC) where the staff checks the RPCs and removes dam­aged ones from the cycle. All RPCs are washed and san­i­tized accord­ing to indus­try stan­dards, like AIB, and then rein­tro­duced into the sys­tem, and the cycle repeats. The pro­duce industry’s strict san­i­ta­tion stan­dards are another rea­son that pool­ing is espe­cially effec­tive in this mar­ket. It would require a sub­stan­tial invest­ment for a sin­gle com­pany to build and man­age its own wash­ing facil­ity. It makes more sense to lever­age a pooler’s economies of scale and effi­cien­cies as opposed to build­ing that com­pe­tency in-house.

Although pool­ers can offload some of the com­plex­i­ties of using RPCs, there are still con­sid­er­a­tions that must be addressed by the pro­duce sup­plier. These include labor impli­ca­tions for set­ting up and stag­ing the RPCs at the grower/shipper level; pack­ing and han­dling the RPCs, changes to pal­let uti­liza­tion, and con­fig­ur­ing loads accord­ing to the retailer’s spec­i­fi­ca­tions for effi­cient move­ment into the store. Other touch points to be con­sid­ered are at the ware­house and receiv­ing cen­ter. Will labor be increased or decreased? Will there be changes in the rejected load rates and what are the asso­ci­ated cost impli­ca­tions? If it’s some­thing that weighs out, what is the impact of the weight of the con­tainer ver­sus tra­di­tional pack­ag­ing? Or if it’s some­thing that cubes out, how can you max­i­mize the amount of sal­able prod­uct that you get on a truck? These are just a few of the changes that will result from imple­ment­ing reusables. Although it will require care­ful and thor­ough plan­ning, most com­pa­nies report sig­nif­i­cant sav­ings that well out­weigh the prepa­ra­tion that was required.

Pack­ag­ing rental model

A sec­ond model used by some grow­ers is pack­ag­ing rental, sim­i­lar to car rental. For a daily fee, com­pa­nies offer var­i­ous stan­dard sized con­tain­ers on a short– or long-term basis (30 days to one-plus years). Typ­i­cally, the cus­tomer is respon­si­ble for freight to and from the rental com­pany, giv­ing them the flex­i­bil­ity to rent what they need for the period they need it. The sea­son­al­ity of har­vests and asso­ci­ated need for a spike in the num­ber of con­tain­ers makes this mar­ket well suited to rental. This saves com­pa­nies from a large cap­i­tal expense for pack­ag­ing that sits idle for peri­ods of time. It also pro­tects com­pa­nies from volatile prices for raw mate­r­ial like wood, steel, or resin used in the pro­duc­tion of RPCs; the rental com­pany bears the risk.

In this model, the totes are typ­i­cally used inter­nally; either entirely within the pack­ing facil­ity or per­haps just from the field back to the pack­ing house. The con­tain­ers are not used to ship pro­duce out to retail. Much like a rental car, the pro­gram ends when the grower returns it to the con­tainer rental company.

Reusables pro­vide far-reaching ben­e­fits to pro­duce indus­try
Whether you choose a pool­ing or rental model, reusables can pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fits to the pro­duce indus­try. The pri­mary gains include:

• Reduced prod­uct dam­age and shrink
• Improved sta­bil­ity and uni­ti­za­tion and cube effi­cien­cies
• Field heat removed quicker
• Higher pro­duce qual­ity at store level
• Reduced labor costs at ware­house
• Bet­ter truck uti­liza­tion to retail
• Pos­si­ble use as “one touch mer­chan­dis­ing”
• Cost effi­cient against tra­di­tional pack­ag­ing
• Reduced dis­posal time at store level
• Reduced Workmen’s Com­pen­sa­tion
• Reduced envi­ron­men­tal footprint

Reduced prod­uct dam­age and shrink — The reduc­tions in prod­uct dam­age and shrink in this mar­ket have been phe­nom­e­nal. In most cases, the spe­cial­ized design of RPCs results in fewer rejected loads and much bet­ter uti­liza­tion all the way from the ini­tial grower down to the con­sumer level.

Improved sta­bil­ity– RPCs are designed to inter­lock, cre­at­ing sta­ble columns that bear the weight of the con­tain­ers, with­out trans­fer­ring it to the pro­duce. Often, pro­duce is wet and this com­pro­mises cor­ru­gated boxes, caus­ing prod­uct to fall out and over. With RPCs, prod­uct qual­ity is improved and there are fewer rejec­tions. The load-bearing abil­ity of the RPCs also improves uti­liza­tion and cube effi­cien­cies. For exam­ple, the fact that all RPCs have the same foot­print and are load bear­ing, work­ers can stack a heavy con­tainer of pota­toes on top of a con­tainer of straw­ber­ries, with­out any dam­age to the berries.
Field heat removed quicker – Reduc­ing cool­ing time to reach ideal tem­per­a­tures quicker extends shelf life con­sid­er­ably. For exam­ple, field tem­per­a­tures for grapes in Fresno, Cal­i­for­nia are 90 to 100 degrees, and they need to be cooled down to 34 degrees. Reusable pack­ag­ing can help remove that heat more quickly, mak­ing the prod­uct that’s going across the coun­try just as fresh as prod­uct that would have been deliv­ered at the source. This results in higher pro­duce qual­ity at the store and extended shelf life.

Reduced labor costs at ware­house — Reusables can have tremen­dous reduc­tions in labor and han­dling. When wet, cor­ru­gated con­tain­ers lose their strength and the pro­duce within can be dam­aged as the box col­lapses. In some cases, a whole pal­let might top­ple over. In order to pre­vent this from hap­pen­ing, DCs often down­stack their pal­lets, which requires addi­tional work and han­dling. In addi­tion to cre­at­ing prod­uct dam­age, col­lapsed cor­ru­gated con­tain­ers become a safety issue when their wet con­tents tum­ble to the ware­house floor. In con­trast, RPCs stack securely, reduc­ing the like­li­hood that tall stacks will fall over. Their load-bearing abil­ity keeps the work­place cleaner and safer, and pro­tects the produce.

Bet­ter truck uti­liza­tion to retail – The com­mon foot­print and load-bearing capa­bil­i­ties of RPCs also have a pos­i­tive impact on truck uti­liza­tion, not only to the dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter, but specif­i­cally from the dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter, then on to the indi­vid­ual stores. Because the con­tain­ers stack well, they cre­ate very sta­ble loads, and pro­duce can be stacked as high as the inte­rior of the truck. Neatly uni­tized pal­let loads full of pro­duce tai­lored to indi­vid­ual stores can be loaded very effi­ciently onto a truck. This is an extremely effi­cient, clean, and safe way to trans­port produce.

One-touch mer­chan­dis­ing — Some retail­ers place RPCs filled with pro­duce directly from the truck onto dis­play. This “one touch” mer­chan­dis­ing reduces labor at the store level.

Reduced dis­posal time at store level – RPCs are designed for easy fold down and secure stack­ing at the back of the store. Stores no longer need labor and equip­ment asso­ci­ated with col­laps­ing and dis­pos­ing of expend­able pack­ag­ing. This one ben­e­fit alone is very sig­nif­i­cant. It elim­i­nates pro­duce dam­age that occurs when cor­ru­gated con­tain­ers are cut open. It reduces the time that store employ­ees must spend return­ing boxes to the back room and wait­ing for their turn on the baler. And it reduces the time that unat­tended boxes of pro­duce are clut­ter­ing up the store aisles while employ­ees are deal­ing with cor­ru­gated boxes in a back room. RPCs greatly improve the expe­ri­ence for cus­tomers and store clerks.

Reduced workman’s com­pen­sa­tion — The improved ergonom­ics of reusables over expend­able pack­ag­ing has resulted in reduc­tions in workman’s com­pen­sa­tion because of fewer injuries and use issues.

Reduced envi­ron­men­tal foot­print – The envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits of reusables are indis­putable. Some expend­able pack­ag­ing can be recy­cled for lim­ited re-use. How­ever, even­tu­ally it all ends up in a land­fill much sooner than plas­tic con­tain­ers. And when there is not an ade­quate sup­ply of recy­cled cor­ru­gated mate­r­ial, then vir­gin wood must be destroyed to cre­ate new boxes.

Reusable pack­ag­ing offers sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fits through­out the pro­duce sup­ply chain. And rental and pool­ing mod­els sup­port the unique require­ments of this demand­ing sup­ply chain with­out a sig­nif­i­cant cap­i­tal invest­ment or cre­ation of a com­plex infra­struc­ture.
 

 

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Member Spotlight: Robert Zachrich, President of Fabri-Form Company and Member of the RPA Board of Directors

Posted November 20, 2011

Editor’s Note:  Fol­low­ing is an inter­view with Rob Zachrich, Pres­i­dent of the Fabri-Form Com­pany a man­u­fac­turer of ther­mo­formed plas­tic prod­ucts for logis­tics (cus­tom pack­ag­ing, pal­lets, sleeve packs), work-in-process (totes, trays and freezer spac­ers) and for end prod­ucts (cus­tom components).

RPA Edi­tor: Describe the area of the sup­ply chain where your prod­ucts play a role.

Zachrich: We pro­vide return­able and cus­tom pack­ag­ing used for the tran­sit of prod­uct between facil­i­ties, offer­ing opti­mal pro­tec­tion, den­sity, and the elim­i­na­tion of expend­able or one-time use pack­ag­ing materials.

RPA Edi­tor: Describe some of the chal­lenges you see that impede com­pa­nies from imple­ment­ing reusable pack­ag­ing.

Zachrich: The two most preva­lent chal­lenges that we face include: 1. When a low vol­ume of prod­uct is being man­u­fac­tured, it results in a delayed pay­back on a reusable tool­ing invest­ment, and there­fore a reluc­tance to invest. 2. Non-closed-loop ship­ping sys­tems make it dif­fi­cult to get pack­ag­ing returned.

RPA Edi­tor: Describe some of the suc­cesses you or your cus­tomers have had with imple­ment­ing reusable pack­ag­ing. Include any inno­v­a­tive meth­ods or insights.

Zachrich: We are in the process of imple­ment­ing a new project track­ing sys­tem that allows our clients to view the sta­tus of their cus­tom project, and main­tain an up-to-date time­line for pro­duc­tion. This has been received with open arms from some of our more trusted accounts. We see it as a tool to enhance our rela­tion­ship with our clients by keep the flow of infor­ma­tion cur­rent and accurate.

RPA Edi­tor: What are the key changes you see hap­pen­ing in the reusable mar­ket­place in the near future?

Zachrich: The key change that we see hap­pen­ing involves a real ded­i­ca­tion to a reduc­tion in solid waste. It appears that the envi­ron­men­tal con­cern is real, and com­pa­nies are very seri­ous when they dis­cuss their car­bon foot­print and ini­tia­tives to help them improve their envi­ron­men­tal impact. This has resulted in a more con­cen­trated look at how reusable pack­ag­ing could play a role in these rat­ings; oppor­tu­ni­ties that pre­vi­ously were unlikely are now legit­i­mate leads.

RPA Edi­tor: List your cur­rent posi­tion within the RPA and state why you chose to become a mem­ber of the RPA lead­er­ship team.

Zachrich: I am cur­rently on the RPA board of Direc­tors. It’s an unbe­liev­able group of peo­ple and I am hon­ored to be a part of it. It’s really a priv­i­lege to help shape how our indus­try attempts to edu­cate the mar­ket­place on the value of reusables, par­tic­u­larly at a time when pub­lic com­pa­nies are hun­ger­ing for a way to improve their impact on sustainability.

RPA Edi­tor: What value do you per­son­ally gain by being in a lead­er­ship role with the RPA?

Zachrich: Frankly, I learn a great deal from the other board mem­bers. We are all fac­ing the same ques­tions and issues as pro­po­nents of reusable pack­ag­ing. So I get exposed to how oth­ers are think­ing about these things, not to men­tion what you can pick up just spend­ing some time with first rate busi­ness people.

RPA Edi­tor: What has your com­pany gained from your involve­ment?

Zachrich: Fabri-Form has gained notable expo­sure from our rela­tion­ship with RPA, allow­ing for extended net­work­ing with com­pa­nies and busi­nesses that oth­er­wise would not have been tar­gets for our com­pany. It has also allowed us to be privy to indus­try dis­cus­sion and be more in tune with tech­nolo­gies being used, what indus­tries are doing, and how pack­ag­ing is being utilized.

RPA Edi­tor: Has RPA had a pos­i­tive impact on your busi­ness? If so, how?

Zachrich: Absolutely! As pre­vi­ously stated, we have been privy to indus­try con­ver­sa­tions and have been exposed to new and cutting-edge uses for return­able pack­ag­ing. We have the advan­tage of get­ting involved at the begin­ning of these dis­cus­sions, which allows for Fabri-Form to edu­cate clients as to how our prod­ucts can ben­e­fit their systems.

RPA Edi­tor: Why would you rec­om­mend mem­ber­ship in the RPA to another com­pany?

Zachrich: The added expo­sure and net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for a small or mid-sized com­pany are invalu­able and could help in the growth and expan­sion of any com­pany that is involved in these mar­kets.
 

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New plastic CABKAN strengthens heavy-duty pallets

Posted November 18, 2011

CABKAN is a rein­forced plas­tic mate­r­ial devel­oped by Cabka, sup­plier of one-way and reusable plas­tic pal­lets in St. Louis, MO. It has been cre­ated espe­cially for man­u­fac­tur­ing heavy-duty plas­tic pal­lets.

A mod­ern com­bi­na­tion of var­i­ous addi­tives gives pre­cisely the spe­cial high stiff­ness and impact strength required for that appli­ca­tion.

Thanks to their out­stand­ing mate­r­ial char­ac­ter­is­tics, the new CABKAN pal­lets dis­play extreme load bear­ing capac­ity even in high racks, and reli­able stiff­ness at ambi­ent tem­per­a­tures up to 104° F. Up to now, these qual­ity fea­tures could only be achieved with metal rein­force­ments.

Addi­tion­ally, CABKAN pal­lets are dis­tin­guished by their very low creep behav­ior. Because they molded in one piece, the material’s advan­tages are avail­able at every point.

CABKAN pal­lets are com­pletely recy­clable, because they are pro­duced from just one mate­r­ial. This is their big advan­tage over metal-reinforced pal­lets. Addi­tion­ally, Cabka promises to take these pal­lets back if they are dam­aged or at the end of the prod­uct cycle. With this prod­uct devel­op­ment, Cabka makes another con­tri­bu­tion to the increased industry-wide effort toward greater sus­tain­abil­ity in load car­ry­ing processes.

Start­ing imme­di­ately, Cabka is offer­ing some of its prod­ucts in CABKAN.

An exam­ple is the CPP 888 logis­tics pal­let: In a VDZ test (ISO 8611–1), the CPP 888 made of CABKAN reached a break­ing load of 8 tons trans­versely and 10 tons length­wise. This is sig­nif­i­cantly more than the required min­i­mum load bear­ing capac­ity of 1,250 kg for high-bay ware­house appli­ca­tions. Thus the CABKAN CPP 888 is the eco­nomic alter­na­tive to hygienic food pal­lets for very high load demands.

About Cabka
Cabka man­u­fac­tures one-way and reusable plas­tic pal­lets in St. Louis, Mis­souri (USA); and Toronto, Ontario (Canada) and Weira, Ger­many. The com­pany employs about 300 staff mem­bers in Europe and North Amer­ica. Cabka prod­ucts are rep­re­sented in more than 40 coun­tries.
 

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Rehrig Pacific Company Introduces New Sheet for the Rigid-Container Industry

Posted November 15, 2011

Rehrig Pacific Com­pany, a lead­ing man­u­fac­turer of reusable pack­ag­ing sys­tems; plas­tic pal­lets; reusable trans­port and dis­tri­b­u­tion crates; and carts and con­tain­ers for gro­cery retail, mate­r­ial han­dling, food and bev­er­age, agri­cul­ture, and recy­cling and waste indus­tries is pleased to intro­duce its new solid plas­tic divider sheet for the rigid-container industry.

This prod­uct com­ple­ments Rehrig’s exist­ing plas­tic bulk pal­let and top frame prod­ucts, now offer­ing a com­plete pack­age to the rigid-container indus­try. Tak­ing nearly 100 years of design and man­u­fac­tur­ing expe­ri­ence and apply­ing it to a highly tech­ni­cal plas­tic sheet allows this new divider sheet to work seam­lessly in auto­mated sys­tems by match­ing the required spec­i­fi­ca­tions for coef­fi­cient of fric­tion, stiff­ness, flat­ness and elasticity.

Rehrig Pacific Tier Sheets are designed specif­i­cally for the metal con­tainer indus­try and are the ideal replace­ment for fiber or cor­ru­gated sheets. These reusable tier sheets can be cus­tomized to meet your exact require­ments and a num­ber of stan­dard and FDA com­pli­ant col­ors are avail­able. Cus­tomized print­ing is also avail­able to add logos or prod­uct specifications.

Rehrig Tier Sheets won’t absorb mois­ture that can har­bor bac­te­ria and other con­t­a­m­i­nants. They can be cleaned and dis­in­fected to deliver prod­uct pro­tec­tion and then reused for imme­di­ate cost sav­ings. These sus­tain­able prod­ucts are made with a 100 per­cent recy­clable pro­pri­etary co-polymer polypropy­lene. Rehrig Pacific can also develop a cus­tomiz­able buy-back pro­gram that insures greater value for used rigid-container tier sheets.

For more infor­ma­tion about Rehrig Pacific Com­pany and its full line of prod­ucts for the mate­r­ial han­dling, food and bev­er­age, agri­cul­ture and recy­cling and waste indus­tries, visit: www.rehrigpacific.com.

About Rehrig Pacific Com­pany
Rehrig Pacific has been help­ing cus­tomers find bet­ter ways to trans­port and store their prod­ucts for nearly 100 years. Founded in 1913, Rehrig Pacific has grown to become a world-leading plas­tic pal­let man­u­fac­turer and con­tainer man­u­fac­turer serv­ing the agri­cul­ture, bak­ery, bev­er­age, dairy and mate­ri­als han­dling indus­tries. It also man­u­fac­tur­ers roll-out carts, recy­cling bins and com­mer­cial con­tain­ers for the waste and recy­cling col­lec­tion indus­try. Head­quar­tered in Los Ange­les, Calif., Rehrig Pacific serves cus­tomers with man­u­fac­tur­ing and ser­vice loca­tions through­out the United States and Mex­ico and sales offices in South Amer­ica and Europe.

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