Lipton has introduced ’slip-sheets’ to replace the wooden pallets that are traditionally used by Unilever’s Global Tea Supply Network to ship teas worldwide.
The initiative has been in practice for a full season in which tea raw materials have been received on the slip-sheets from Assam, India to Lipton Jebel Ali, Dubai.
Approximately 1000 TMUs ( 20 […]

A massive fire ripped through a pallet-making business on Salt Lake City’s west side Saturday night, destroying at least two buildings and an unknown number of trailers and wooden pallets.
The four-alarm fire at Central Pallet, near 850 South and 4400 West, is the second at the business in two years. Investigators believe sparks from a […]

Below find an announcement about a new NPO dedicated to pallet pooling. See postings on the Swedish grocery pallet pool, EPAL, CPC, and the Dutch beverage pallet pool.

By Tom Andel, Editor in chief — Modern Materials Handling, 6/27/2008
The U.S. grocery industry has a love-hate relationship with wood pallets. The love has to do with […]

IFCO SYSTEMS announces today that it has successfully completed the acquisition of all of the shares of STECO Holding GmbH and its subsidiaries. IFCO SYSTEMS and STECO already obtained antitrust clearances by the responsible antitrust authorities. All closing conditions have been satisfied as well. On April 16, 2008 IFCO SYSTEMS announced that it has signed […]

Sustainability is the hot new topic in packaging and supply chain management.

The sustainability of reusable packaging systems depends on the cost and benefits to the supply chains that use them. Reusable shipping containers can be a profitable and sustainable investment – or a costly mistake.

It has been over 15 years since the […]

Following another year of impressive growth pallet rental specialist, IPP Logipal has renewed its contract with Midlands-based PR consultancy, Quiet Storm.

IPP Logipal is part of the Faber Halbertsma Group, the largest pallet manufacturer and second largest pallet pooling business in Europe. The group has a turnover of over £200 million, produces over 18 million […]

Brambles has delivered a solid performance for the 11 months to the end of May 2008 with sales 13% higher than the prior corresponding period (6% in constant currency), driven mainly by volume growth across all regions of CHEP and Recall. This has been achieved in what is a challenging economic environment in many markets.
Brambles […]

In the current gloomy market conditions, Brambles showed there was still life in the US, European and Australian economies for a company operating in a service sector that has already seen a fair bit of doom (UPS and FedEx’s earnings downgrades in the US, for example).
As a result, Brambles enjoyed the best trading conditions for […]

U.K. pallet producer Unit Pallets Limited now has 2 fully operational Cape Lines, which incorporate the latest pallet technology. The latest technology has proven and robust engineering, complete with robotic feed for composition blocks. The new line Cape 2 has a state of the art spray booth with part drying facility for the […]

PHS Teacrate doubles capacity by installing new versatile crate washer

Things are set to get even busier for PHS Teacrate, the UK’s largest crate rental company, following the installation of a new washer at its crate washing facility in Curdworth, West Midlands. The new machine has more than doubled capacity for Teacrate which means that […]