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.
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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.
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It is far too easy for pallets to “leak” out of a supply chain. A pallet misplaced in the distribution center here. One never returned from a customer there. Another used for an in-store display. Yet another stuck “temporarily” in an offsite warehouse and then forgotten. A few more picked up by thieves in back of a retail store. Read this story in DCVelocity.com.
International Contract Molding, LLC (ICM) announces the launch of its redesigned website: www.icmolding.com. The new website showcases its reusable packaging division which offers customers robust, multi-use, reusable containers to replace one-way, single, or limited use packaging. In addition to manufacturing the containers, ICM’s new website details its complete line of container services including: supply chain management, container maintenance, container tracking and container recycling.
Buckhorn Inc., a leading provider of reusable plastic packaging and material handling systems, is introducing its new Intrepid 48” x 40” specialty bulk box at the 2014 MODEX Show.
Packaging Revolution documented how IBM relies on reusable packaging to deliver its powerhouse mainframe computers smoothly and in top condition. The highly sensitive and expensive mainframe computers are the size…
The Craemer Group, a major provider of high quality plastic pallets, transport and storage containers, and waste management systems has joined the Reusable Packaging Association. The company will exhibit at the RPA’s Reusable Packaging Pavilion at PACK EXPO in Chicago.
Jerry Welcome, President of the RPA, pointed out the value of reusable containers for transporting produce in clamshells in an article in published in the January edition of Produce Business
United Pallet Services, Inc., makers of the patented pointGUARD Pallet Protector System, will debut their first international pointGUARD at the MODEX trade show, being held March 17th-20th in Atlanta, Georgia of…
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February 24, 2014
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RPA’s Editor discusses with Aaron Goulet, Account Representative from APR Allen Plastic Repair the advantages of repairing reusables rather than disposing them creating more ROI for your reusables investment.
The Reusable Packaging Association has established a new industry-wide committee to establish sanitation standards and guidelines for reusable containers used throughout the food supply chain. The RPC Food Safety Standards Committee will include membership and input from providers of reusable plastic containers (RPCs), retailers, growers, and shippers.
IFCO SYSTEMS, the global leader in Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) for fresh products, today announced the expansion of its life cycle assessment research comparing RPCs and display-ready corrugated boxes used to ship fresh produce to grocery retailers. The new study, expected to be published in May, will add human and eco-toxicity impact categories to the areas currently reviewed, which include solid waste, energy demand, water usage and more. The report is being produced by Franklin Associates, a Division of ERG, a leading consulting company specializing in life cycle assessment and solid waste management.