Join us at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Sept. 29–Oct. 1, for the Reusable Packaging Learning Center, featuring two days of expert-led education on innovation, efficiency, and sustainability in transport packaging.
Learn more -The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) is seeking input from supply chain professionals to help mold its new virtual reusable packaging forum, called Connected Community.
Hillary Femal, Director of Strategic Market Development, IFCO SYSTEMS, has been elected to the Reusable Packaging Association 2013 Executive Committee. She will serve as secretary/treasurer.
“I make it a point to come here every year”. We heard this comment repeatedly from attendees who stopped at the RPA booth within the Reusable Packaging Pavilion at PACK EXPO in Chicago. The Pavilion, which was home to 26 RPA members, has become a recognized and must-see stop for PACK EXPO attendees who are interested in reusable packaging and solutions.
The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) announced its 2013 Executive Committee members today. Formed in 1998, the RPA is the leading trade association dedicated to promoting the expansion and value of reusable packaging systems for greater supply chain efficiencies, increased environmental benefits and reduced costs.
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August 27, 2012
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The popular Reusable Packaging Pavilion is returning to PACK EXPO in Chicago with its largest number of exhibitors to date. Twenty-seven companies will exhibit in the sold out Reusable Packaging Pavilion located in the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place. The exhibitors include manufacturers, material suppliers, providers of washing and other specialty equipment, and poolers and service providers of reusable packaging systems and solutions.
The RPA announced today that a panel of independent judges with a combined total of more than 80 years in packaging and sustainability will judge submissions for the Reusable Packaging Association’s first annual Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award.
Much of the reusable packaging in the supply chain is utilized internally, from one business to another, says Mike Hachtman, board chairman of the Reusable Packaging Association. But the strongest growth is found in retail because companies see the value in it.
Arrows Up, Inc. has joined the Reusable Packaging Association to strengthen their mutual goal of increasing the adoption of reusables and to bring the Association’s resources and expertise to the agricultural and other new markets.
The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) is teaming up with StopWaste Partnership to host a Use Reusables Workshop in Salt Lake City, UT on March 21. Other participants in the workshop are the Utah College of Applied Technology, the Utah Manufacturers Association, and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (UDEQ).
Since its inception in 1999 as the Reusable Pallet and Container Coalition (RPCC), the Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) has steadily expanded its membership, resources and expertise, strengthening its position as the industry’s recognized leading source and voice for the adoption of reusable packaging systems across all industries.