Boulder, Colorado, USA – June 29, 2006 – Aurora Organic Dairy, the nation’s leading producer of private label organic milk and butter, announced it has moved to the CHEP pallet program to improve pallet administration, gain efficiencies throughout the supply chain and help fulfill its environmental sustainability goals. The […]

In the April issue of our publication we published an article titled: “Product Focus: Portable Storage Racks Offer Fast, Flexible Storage Solution”, in which we explored applications and benefits of portable stacking racks. This article has attracted considerable attention.
We strongly believe that the highly competitive global marketplace will continue to put a pressure on the […]

MILPITAS, Calif. Globalstar, a world leader in providing mobile satellite voice and data services to business, announced that its independent gateway operator in Mexico, Globalstar de Mexico, is expanding its simplex or one-way data coverage throughout all of Mexico and to areas of northern Central America. With the resulting coverage enhancements, Globalstar simplex data […]

RF Code, Inc., a leading provider of real-time, high definition location solutions, announced a partnership with the leading supply chain solutions provider, Manhattan Associates, Inc.
Under the terms of the agreement, RF Code will supply its active RFID product line of tags, readers, and Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS) asset management software as part of its commitment […]

LUSTENAU, Austria and KELOWNA, Canada, June 27 /PRNewswire/ — IDENTEC SOLUTIONS, global supplier of industrial, RFID-based tracking and tracing solutions, has secured a financing package in the amount of $15 Million USD. RFID Invest AG from Lichtenstein will act as lead investor.
The new financing package will serve as a basis for long-term expansion
of IDENTEC SOLUTIONS’ […]

The Flooring Business Unit of Uniboard Canada, one of the largest North American manufacturers of laminate flooring products, has joined the CHEP pallet pooling program. Boxes of finished laminate flooring are now being transported to retailers and distributors in Canada and the United States from the company’s facility in Laval, Quebec on pallets from CHEP, […]

by Master Sgt. Andrew Gates
407th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs
ALI BASE, Iraq (AFPN) — More than $1 million worth of pallets have been recovered over the past month by a team from the 407th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron here.
The team, led by Senior Airman Randy Walgren, has recovered more than 900 pallets used […]

The Reusable Plastic Pallet & Container Association hopes that standards for plastic pallets will help buyers make better informed decisions.
The Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA) is now responsible for administering MH1, the premier committee developing U.S. standards related to “pallets, slip sheets and other bases for unit-loads.” The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently […]

CHEP has announced that Nissan, one of the world’s leading car manufacturers, has renewed its contract with CHEP relating to the supply of Folding Large Containers (FLC’s) and smaller KLT containers, at its manufacturing facility in Barcelona, Spain.
The success CHEP has achieved in helping Nissan control its costs and manage the packaging within the supply […]

CHEP has announced that General Motors, the world’s leading car and truck manufacturer, is deploying CHEP’s global container pooling solution to handle the movement of components from its first tier suppliers in the United States and Canada, to its power train plant in Strasbourg, France. The decision by General Motors to use CHEP container pooling, […]