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Jeff Balck named his company after the Black Forest, a beautiful, vast, and dense woodland in Germany. The business specializes in stainless steel containers for closed loop applications. Companies use our containers if they have flammable, corrosive, poisonous, or very sensitive products that require special handling.

Don Frandsen is a second generation provider of reusables. RPA Editor: Tell us how you got involved in the reusables market. Frandsen: My dad owned a foam fabrication company, called…

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February 26, 2013

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Herman Miller is committed to creating inventive designs, technologies and related services that improve the human experience wherever people work, heal, learn, and live. The company has been named for nine consecutive years to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and was named among the 50 Best U.S. Manufacturers by Industry Week. This week we interview RPA member Cindy Doman.

RPA’s Marketing and Communications Chairperson and new Board member Hillary Femal, IFCO Systems is interviewed for this member spotlight.

An interview with RPA Board Member Rob Zachrich the new President of 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 Board member Phil Davis, Senior Fresh Supply Chain Manager, The Kroger Company shares with RPA’s News and Views his thoughts on reusable packaging for one of the nation’s largest retail grocery chains with $82 billion in yearly sales. Kroger operates over 3,200 grocery and convenience stores in 37 states.

Read the latest News and Views interview with John Frey, TOSCA, RPA Secretary/Treasurer and Board of Director Member

RPA is beginning a new monthly series of guest interviews with top industry executives from RPA member companies to discuss their insights and perspectives on the reusable packaging industry and the role of RPA in today’s reusable business. Our first guest interview is with Mike Hachtman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development at IFCO SYSTEMS N.A., INC. in Houston, TX.