Reusable box solutions
Pallet pooling specialist, FHG IPP Logipal, has launched a range of reusable box solutions – the FHG Bulk Box, FHG High Protection Box – plus accessories including liners, flexible textile inserts and a smart pocket frame.
Pallet pooling specialist, FHG IPP Logipal, has launched a range of reusable box solutions – the FHG Bulk Box, FHG High Protection Box – plus accessories including liners, flexible textile inserts and a smart pocket frame.
As technology advances and the supply chain becomes increasingly automated, there are numerous cost and efficiency benefits to be gained. But, warns Jane Gorick, UK managing director of LPR, without strict quality management this also leaves the door open for ‘computer says no’ to end up costing the industry dearly.
In order to transport palletised beverage cartons to the central warehouses and distribution centres of customers, the German market leader for sparkling wine, Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien equipped two of its production locations with the Beumer stretch hood M high-capacity packaging systems.
Goplasticpallets.com is launching two new websites – Goplasticpallets.com and Goplasticboxes.com – which not only have a fresh look, but for the first time, include a useful search facility so customers can type in product codes or the name of a manufacturer to find exactly what product they are looking for.
FANUC Robotics UK has launched the M410-iC/185 universal palletising robot.
Every logistics operator understands the challenges facing their supply chain, but many lack the belief that asset-related challenges are simple and cost effective to solve, says Richard Jenkins from RF Code.
RM2 International S.A. has announced its intention to float on the AIM market. With an anticipated market capitalisation of £278.3 million on listing, RM2’s debut will be the largest AIM IPO in 2013, according to the company.
With competition rife, shop retailers are more reliant than ever on their promotional displays for grabbing customers’ attention and Goplasticpallets.com believes it holds the solution with its plastic point-of-sale pallet.
Carlsberg UK has signed a new contract with pallet pooling operator LPR to solely manage the pallet movements for all of its brands, which include Carlsberg, San Miguel, Tetley’s and Holsten Pils.
Last year saw pallet pooling specialist, FHG IPP Logipal, achieve its ninth successive year of double-digit growth since its foundation in 2005.
Qimarox has launched a study into the use of drones for product palletising.
Offering the advantages of traditional bale arm crates, Goplasticboxes.com’s range of stacking and nesting food crates have the additional benefit of a prolonged life span.
Pall-Ex was a quick adapter to the rise of eCommerce but high fuel duty remains a key concern for its members.
Henkel has signed a lane expansion contract for the use of pallet pooling services in Germany with CHEP.
The European Pallet Association e. V. (EPAL) has recorded production of the 30-millionth Euro pallet with the EPAL logo on four corner blocks.
According to Aetna, when it comes to wrapping pallets, it is possible to use a cost per pallet rental type scheme, which seems to be anything from 70p to £2 per pallet. Alternatively companies can own a pallet stretch wrapper either by buying the machine outright of purchasing it with the help of a finance house, and achieve costs of 34p to 48p per pallet.
MAUSER Group has launched a new pallet design for its MAUSER SM IBC Series. Building on the success of the composite pallet design introduced more than a decade ago, the completely redesigned pallet comes with pallet blocks made from recycled plastics in combination with a metal tube frame construction supporting a metal pan.
Available in lightweight, medium-duty and heavy-duty versions, Goplasticpallets.com’s 1212mm (L) x 1212mm (W) plastic pallet range offers customers a solution for every application, from low weight shipments to heavy weight bulk consignments.
Gloucester-based specialist supplier of hand and machine pallet wrap, Golden Valley Pallet Wrap Specialists (GVPS), has launched Fusion 33 – a new machine applied pallet wrap that, the company says, will save users up to 80% of their pallet wrap costs.
According to Aetna, when it comes to wrapping pallets, it is possible to use a cost per pallet rental type scheme, which seems to be anything from 70p to £2 per pallet. Alternatively companies can own a pallet stretch wrapper either by buying the machine outright of purchasing it with the help of a finance house, and achieve costs of 34p to 48p per pallet.