The Excellence in Packaging Awards

Cummins partnered with Surgere to implement a returnable container tracking solution across 30 facilities in North America. Utilizing Passive RFID technology, the system integrates nearly 300 RFID portals and handheld readers to ensure precise, real-time tracking of containers. This solution improves workflows, reduces container location time, and supports Cummins’ corporate sustainability goals, with data accuracy exceeding 95%.

ALPAL teamed up with a leading manufacturer to redesign a bulk container that could collapse for efficient return transport while maintaining the strength to stack eight units high, optimizing storage space. The innovative 2-in-1 solution, combining a pallet and a container, incorporates the best of flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBCs) and intermediate bulk containers (IBCs). After securing design agency BPO, the year-long redesign process involved weekly collaboration, leading to the final design and the contracting of a mold maker to produce the new ALPAL product.

Niagara Systems ventured into automated pallet washing when a customer sought to replace their manual process with a solution capable of cleaning 1,000 pallets per hour. A dedicated team of engineers, machinists, welders, and fabricators worked through a seven-step design and build process, covering research, design, procurement, fabrication, assembly, testing, and implementation, to deliver the automated pallet washer.