CHEP has appointed three new group presidents responsible for CHEP’s worldwide operations. The company said this is consistent with its new strategic direction of accelerated growth unveiled last year.
Tom Gorman, currently president of Ford Australia, has been appointed Group President, CHEP EMEA, covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He will join Brambles on 1 […]

Avery Dennison RFID, a business unit of Avery Dennison Corporation and leading RFID technology provider, announced immediate availability of the AD-908, a new addition to their portfolio of RFID tags.
The AD-908 is a durable tag that provides excellent RF performance in challenging environments or on RF-unfriendly contents and packaging.

“End users regularly described a wide range […]

There wouldn’t be too many homes in Australia that don’t have a pack of Arnott’s Milk Arrowroot, Tim Tam“ or Sao“ and the famous Arnott’s parrot is one of the nation’s all time branding symbols. But Arnott’s makes a lot more than their famous biscuit range, and over time, they’ve acquired and manufactured a wide […]

AVC Corporation, the leader in environmental packaging has set up their plant, AVC-China in Guangdong province, to manufacture and produce the same great environmental packaging available domestically to American companies.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 26, 2008 — With the Wal-Mart scorecard set to go into effect on February 1, the procrastinator’s clock will soon stop […]

The Timber Packaging and Pallet Confederation (TIMCON), has announced that it has established an attractive arrangement for its full members, who for the first time can access the extensive specialist technical support facilities available from PalletLink, in addition to those already on offer from TIMCON itself.
PalletLink is the UK’s only advisory association to offer unbiased […]

 Note: This award-winning paper by Clinton McDade of Schaefer Systems International is featured at www.mhia.org
Custom Box or Custom-Sized Box?
One of the most frustrating aspects of being the product designer for a plastics manufacturer is receiving a bid package from a customer for a custom-sized tote. While this sounds counterintuitive, the […]

By Peter Hamner and Marshall White
Center for Unit Loan Design
Virginia Tech
The word green in today’s world has become synonymous with environmental sustainability. Sustainability is another buzzword often used that refers to the application of processes or the use of resources that can be maintained indefinitely. The United States […]

Drinkers will be able to choose their top tipple and help tackle climate change at the same time, as five of the UK’s top brewers have adopted lighter glass bottles.

Brands including Miller Genuine Draft, Strongbow and Marston’s are now available in new lighter bottles which have been adopted as part of an industry-wide response to […]

WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) is supporting Dairy Crest in a project to research, design and pilot a new handle-free plastic milk bottle, as part of a drive to reduce packaging waste from UK milk sales by 5,000 tonnes per annum.

This project will focus on one pint and two pint bottles. Packaging supplier Nampak […]

by Senior Airman Terri Barriere
332nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs
1/23/2008 - BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN)  – The Airmen assigned to Task Force 586 here recently took on an additional tasking to redistribute equipment and supplies for the Army.
Mobile redistribution teams go to forward-operating bases throughout Iraq to collect excess supplies, and the Airmen searched for pallets […]