Pallets

Because I write my monthly Modern column, “Packaging Corner,” from my own cozy corner home-office in Oregon, I don’t often get to see the new packaging technologies I write about up close and personal.

Automation Plus (Booth 4863), a division of CSF Inc., has invented a new way to handle pallets, called the Pallet Return Device (PRDTM). The PRDTM is designed to operate in distribution center pick modules or with pick tunnels.

When is a pallet more than just a pallet? When it's a service.

Although RM2 USA’s (Booth 1316) BLOCKPal pallets already had a high coefficient of friction, they’ve been further enhanced with a new gel coat finish.

A new composite pallet offers reusable, returnable benefits to new markets.

Global supply chain logistics company adopting closer alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Program includes further pallet deployment in coming years.

The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) has elected four new members and returned three members to the Board of Directors for the two-year term 2016-2017.

Lee joined company in 2005 and brought it back from the brink of bankruptcy.

Third-generation family-owned company charts steady growth worldwide.

In advance of the historic COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, RM2 joined the more than 150 companies that have pledged to pursue a low-carbon, sustainable future.

A Canadian retail co-op has embraced sustainability to reduce its costs and return the savings to its members and customers.

Federated Co-operatives uses technologies that are environmentally and worker friendly in its Saskatoon warehouse.

Join Modern Materials Handling Senior Editor Josh Bond, and renowned pallet guru and president of White and Company, Marshall White, as they put context behind the findings of the 2015 Pallet Usage and Trending Study.

Modern’s annual reader survey shows how trends in pallet use point to priorities around cost control, customer compliance and operational efficiencies. More customers are asking for pallet type changes and having minor availability issues with used wood pallets, while pallet cost and durability continue to be dominant decision factors.