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Pack Expo 2014 report highlights eight trends
Serialization, adaptive robotics and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) among key takeaways.

Crown Lift Trucks in Lexington achieves zero landfill status
Team collaborates with several partners to recycle and re-purpose materials.

RPA Reusable Packaging Forum: Call for presentations
Winners to be announced at April forum focusing on best practices, challenges, and benefits associated with reusables in a supply chain.

Reducing carbon pollution and supply chain efficiency remains challenging
More progress is needed for federal goals of carbon pollution reduction to see subsequent supply chain gains.

US corrugated and paperboard box demand to exceed $39 billion in 2018
Report highlights impacts of nearshoring, on-demand packaging and a rising domestic economy.

Wax coating usage drops below 3% of total corrugated industry annual shipments
A new study shows the corrugated industry continues to dramatically decrease its use of wax coatings.

Ranpak sold to private equity firm Rhone Capital
Ranpak was founded with the goal to create the first environmentally responsible packaging material to effectively cushion and protect products during shipment.

More than half of U.S. companies to increase energy efficiency investment in 2015
Schneider Electric survey reveals acceleration in efficiency funding amid convergence of information technology and operational technologies.

Orbis Corporation receives approval on new fire-retardant pallet material
Halogen- and bromine-free material an industry first.

Other Voices: Lean manufacturing as a way to eliminate waste
With a willingness to change, managers will find how quickly the little things add up.

Survey asks: Need for green or need for speed?
Consumer preferences suggest businesses should reconsider chasing the Amazon model.

Staples and Packsize win first place for sustainability from the World Packaging Organisation
On-demand packaging system allows company to use 15% less corrugated used and 60% less void fill while improving less-than-full-case average cube utilization by 20%.

Corrugated industry significantly improves environmental performance
A new U.S. corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) study shows a significant 32 percent reduction per unit in the industry's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 2006 and 2010.

Remanufacturing is key to growth in supply chain
New APICS survey finds that remanufacturing and reverse logistics are no longer niche competencies

Crown Equipment joins panel at Sustainable Manufacturer Conference
Intended for owners, plant managers, corporate executives, EHS managers and engineers, the conference will cover topics that equip attendees with information about executing and enhancing sustainable manufacturing operations.


May 2024 Modern Materials Handling

A complete modernization of the sortation and conveyance at Boscov’s DC, along with updated software and a new order processing area, have transformed the ability of the department store chain’s DC to move more cartons in less time, while permitting more frequent replenishment shipment for stores.
 


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