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Packaging: Economic calculator helps figure savings By staff, 4/1/2009
The reusable packaging association (RPA, www.choosereusables.org) has created an economic calculator to help you determine if switching to reusable packaging will save you money. “Now more than ever, businesses are trying to reduce operating expenses, and reusable transport packaging is a proven and effective way to reduce costs,” said Bob Klimko, chairman of the RPA board and dire... More
Manufacturing: Valpak's automated DC delivers Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor - 06/01/2009
The materials handling system managing the movement of raw materials and finished products through Valpak's new St. Petersburg, Fla., facility is almost completely automated: For the most part, the role of materials handlers is limited to loading and unloading trucks. That level of automation will allow the company to accommodate future growth while remaining as lean as possible.
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Automation: Grocery giant Kroger changes the distribution game By Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor - 05/01/2009
In the not so distant past, most grocery distribution centers made due with labor intensive, traditional materials handling technologies and processes. Pallets were moved by lift trucks and stored in racks. Mixed pallets were built the old fashioned way, with manual labor. For some leading grocers, those days are history.
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Distribution: Kroger's facility has automation in command By Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor - 05/01/2009
From the supplier to the store, pallets are only touched twice in the Kroger facility: Once when a pallet is unloaded from an inbound trailer by a lift truck operator at the receiving dock and once again when it's loaded by a lift truck operator onto an outbound trailer at the shipping dock. In between, automation is in control.
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Police raid disrupts Houston plastic pallet theft network Staff - 05/01/2009
All-plastic pallets with embedded RFID tags played a major role in disrupting an illegal pallet operation in Houston, Texas. Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS, www.igps.net), reported that with its close and ongoing collaboration with Houston law enforcement officials and retailers in the region, the Houston Police Department's Major Offenders Task Force conducted a raid on PA Pallets of...
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