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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The Reusable Packaging Association is accepting submissions for its first annual Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award. The award is designed to recognize companies that have developed, supported or implemented measurable and innovative reusable solutions in a business-to-business supply chain.
By Justin Lehrer In today’s economic climate, retailers and suppliers are feeling the pressure to make their operations as efficient as possible to stay profitable and competitive. At the same…
The U.S. Postal Service is requesting customers return postal service owned mail transport equipment, like plastic and cardboard mail tubs and trays.
Reusable Transport Packaging, Inc. has joined the Reusable Packaging Association. The company, based in Madeira Beach, FL, supplies reusable, sustainable solutions for all types of shipping, storage and distribution applications. Reusable Transport Packaging will exhibit in the RPA Reusable Packaging Pavilion at PACK EXPO 2012 in Chicago.
IFCO SYSTEMS, the global leader in Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) for fresh products, today announced that it will provide containers to Foodshare, a Connecticut-based charity that targets hunger issues.
The 23rd annual “State of Logistics Report,” which chronicled the nation’s logistics output for the year, showed a modest change over 2010 totals. U.S. logistics costs reached $1.28 trillion, a 6.6-percent increase over 2010 levels and a 17 percent increase over the trough in 2009 as the U.S. grappled with the financial crisis and subsequent recession.
Container and Pooling Solutions (CAPS) (www.usecaps.com) recently opened new service centers in Portland, OR and Stockton, CA to address its growing customer demand on the West Coast.
Beverage-makers employ a variety of methods to get their products from the manufacturer or distributor into the retailers. But an otherwise smooth cycle can reach a speed bump when companies look for solutions that create less waste than one-way disposable delivery options.
Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) today furthered its commitment to sustainability and the environment by announcing that it has transitioned to using reusable product containers (RPCs), rather than corrugated boxes, to ship many types of produce from the farm fields, through the distribution channel and to final store destination. This transition eliminated the use of over 17 million pounds of corrugated boxes.