Reporting how new technologies are changing mobile logistics assets.

20th Century Fox has chosen PPS Direct, part of PPS Equipment Management, to supply it with Düsseldorfer pallets for the delivery and display of DVDs to a major discount retailer.
Derbyshire-based PPS Direct will supply 20th Century Fox with 1,200 timber D-pallets, which are half the size of standard pallets at 800×600mm.
The D-pallets were ordered and […]

Drinks bottle manufacturer Esterform Packaging has awarded a contract to IPP Logipal as part of its five-year investment programme.
Under the agreement, IPP Logipal will provide a one-way pallet service, delivering products to leading manufacturers in the UK soft drinks industry.
The independent Leeds-based packaging business converts PET plastics and is a market leader in producing 38mm […]

A manufacturing order to produce millions of plastic pallets in the next five years has come to a Springfield plant and brought 40 jobs.
The news is welcomed locally. “Any additional manufacturing jobs are tremendous, especially in times in which we live,” said Greg Williams of the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce.
Buckhorn Inc., which makes reusable […]

Linpac Allibert has launched a new lightweight heavy-duty container which has been designed to help automotive sector to achieve fuel, space and environmental efficiency savings in the supply chain.
The Tytan container weighs 48kg, is capable of carrying a load of up to 500kg and is stackable. It folds down to a height of 385mm. […]

Last week’s Pack Expo show delivered a number of incremental refinements to returnable pallet and container products, a continued emphasis on environmental responsibility and at the top of the news, an update on WalMart’s packaging scorecard.
The WalMart presentation has been covered at length elsewhere, but from a pallet perspective, it is noteworthy that the continued […]

Source: www.everydaynews.eu
Plans are being laid to roll out several new-design CHEP pallets and containers in 2008. Innovative new products include the 1208 Next Generation pallet, to be field trialled in Spain; the 4840 Blue Step pallet, set for a USA launch; and the smoothwall DRICON 1208 foldable large container, targeting the food industry in Europe.
1208 […]

Nov. 18, 2008
Greystone Logistics, Inc. (OTCBB: GLGI) — Greystone Logistics today announced numerous purchase orders resulting from the Company’s newly implemented Go-To-Market strategy. Previously the company had indicated a move to more direct corporate sales, developing closer ties with a larger number of professional materials handling groups, and further expansion of the company’s product line. […]

Source: http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/
With Boeing already far advanced in squeezing waste out of its own systems, interest is shifting toward Boeing’s interactions with the thousands of suppliers that bring services and materials to the company. As Boeing refines its own energy-saving strategies, improvements that can be made in the company’s interactions with those suppliers become more obvious.
For […]

The PL-950 also gently handles products with minimal secondary packaging, without compromising the integrity of the finished product