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 number of pallets in use in the US is forecast to grow 2.4 percent annually to 2.6 billion in 2017, with annual demand for new pallets increasing 3.5 percent per year to 1.3 billion units. A number of factors will contribute to sales growth. First, rising manufacturers’ shipments will require producers to add to their existing stocks in order to have enough pallets on hand to handle higher output levels
New rackable plastic pallets from Rehrig Pacific Co. are designed to meet specifications of the Grocery Manufacturers Association and include embedded technology to track loads and monitor temperatures of perishables such as fresh produce.
An exciting new study from Rehrig Pacific (www.rehrigpacific.com) and Clemson University emphasizes the importance of secondary packaging appearance in gaining and holding customer attention, buyer behaviors that retailers are finding increasingly important, given that more and more purchase decisions are made at the point of purchase by consumers.
The RPA Pavilion is bringing together the most diverse and largest number (37) of exhibitors ever. The popular Pavilion brings together manufacturers, material suppliers, providers of specialty equipment, pool-ers & service providers of reusable packaging systems and solutions into one highly visible and convenient location in the South Building, Las Vegas Convention Center.
Shuert Technologies has combined its new lightweight twin-sheet pallets and lids with the durable plastic sleeves of CON-Pearl to bring the Uni-Pak II to SouthPack 2013. This durable and versatile sleeve pack provides more usable space than other returnables of similar size and footprint.
Fibertech Inc., a leading supplier of reusable containers and pallets, has joined the Reusable Packaging Association. The company will join 24 other members who are exhibiting in the association’s Reusable Packaging Pavilion at PACK EXPO in Las Vegas this year.
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.
The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) is seeking input from supply chain professionals to help mold its new virtual reusable packaging forum, called Connected Community.
Experts in the field will share packaging and shipping best practices, present real-world success stories and offer step-by-step instructions to evaluate and implement reusable transport packaging. Panelists include Nancy Parmer, Senior Director of Sustainability, UPS and Doug Heywood, Director, Operations Solutions, Owens & Minor, supply logistics partner for Stanford University Medical Center.
LINPAC Allibert and Schoeller Arca Systems (SAS) have joined together under one name to become the world leader in plastic reusable transit packaging (RTP). The two companies will be rebranded as Schoeller Allibert from January 2013, following the acquisition of LINPAC Allibert by controlling SAS stakeholder One Equity Partners (OEP) nine months ago.