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December 2007

2007-12-20 Saving Your Supply Chain
Since it's inception back in the early 1900's Loscam has grown to become, today, a leading logistics provider to the retail, grocery, food manufacturing, hardware, Transport & logistics industries.

2007-12-20 Field Test Launched For Radio Frequency ID Tags On Reusable Containers
A pallet and container coalition has begun field tests to combine radio frequency identification technology (RFID) with returnable packaging.

2007-12-20 Growers, Grocers, Get Into Plastic Pallet Pool (By Claire Swedberg)

While the plastic pallets' lightweight and environmental benefits first wooed its customers, iGPS hopes RFID-powered traceability will convince more to begin using its pallets.

2007-12-18 IFCO SYSTEMS announces extension of service agreement with SMA SPA in Italy
IFCO SYSTEMS announces, that SMA SPA, Milano, a company of the Auchan group and one of the leading retailers in Italy, has signed a long term agreement to extend the business relationship with IFCO SYSTEMS as their exclusive RPC service provider for fruits and vegetables.

2007-12-18 Gerolsteiner Unbottles ROI From Its RFID Deployment (By Rhea Wessel)
Gerolsteiner Brunnen, a manufacturer of bottled non-alcoholic drinks and mineral water, needed to comply with European Union (E.U.) regulations (EU 178/2002) regarding tracking food and beverages. Two years after implementing an RFID-based system, the German company says it has recouped approximately half its investment, and that the system has required little more than routine maintenance in the interim.

2007-12-17 IFCO SYSTEMS opens a new subsidiary in Poland and announces expansion into Central Eastern Europe
IFCO SYSTEMS today announced that it has further expanded its international network by opening a new office in Poland. Poland is the largest economy in Central Eastern Europe with a fast growing retail market and an annual fruit & vegetable production of more than 8 million tonnes.

2007-12-17 Pallet growth report 'optimistic' (by Sarah Dennis)
A growth of 25% in volumes for the pallet network sector in 2008 has been branded "optimistic" by some of the industry's main players.

2007-12-17 Fire destroys pallet company outbuilding (By GEORGE GRAHAM)
A fire, perhaps set off by a wood stove, destroyed a shop building at B&D Pallet Co. on Western Avenue last night.

2007-12-13 Storm Lake, IA Warehouse 'Total Loss' After Fire
A warehouse, in Storm Lake, Iowa, which housed more than a dozen businesses, is a total loss following a Tuesday morning fire.

2007-12-13 Blaze strikes Walker pallet company
It took firefighters from Walker and Grand Rapids three hours Saturday to put out a pallet fire at Bergsma Pallet Co.

2007-12-13 Storm Lake, IA Warehouse 'Total Loss' After Fire
A warehouse, in Storm Lake, Iowa, which housed more than a dozen businesses, is a total loss following a Tuesday morning fire.

2007-12-11 Pallet Packaging
Efficient delivery of product to the customer is of enormous importance. Most products use a pallet to ship product economically and efficiently.

2007-12-11 Plastic Spill Pallets
If your business uses a lot of volatile chemicals or oils, then one of your main concerns as far as material handling goes is to reduce the possibility of spillages.

2007-12-10 Blaze strikes Walker pallet company
It took firefighters from Walker and Grand Rapids three hours Saturday to put out a pallet fire at Bergsma Pallet Co.

2007-12-10 UK pallet networks to continue exceptional growth
Yesterday Transport Intelligence launches its latest report, UK Pallet Networks 2008.

2007-12-10 SA-BE sees green in green pallets (by Michael Sheffield)
Environmentally friendly products called more durable

2007-12-10 J.C. Pallet Company Up and Running
A Bladen County plant is back in operation after a devastating fire earlier this week.

2007-12-10 Flexible pallet-handling device
Packaging machinery manufacturer A-B-C has created a pallet-handling device that can be used as either a pallet dispenser or pallet stacker.

2007-12-10 ICS Logistics to build warehouse at Imeson (by Stewart Verney)
ICS Logistics Inc. will start work next month on an industrial warehouse complex and transportation terminal in the Imeson International Industrial Park.

2007-12-06 Doherty starts work at Brambles (by Adrie van der Luijt)
Former Tesco Liz Doherty has started her employment with Brambles Limited as chief financial officer.

2007-12-06 Fire destroys Bladenboro business
A pallet-making company's operation here was destroyed by fire late Monday.

2007-12-04 Lumber kiln helps control global spread of pests (by Rizalina K. Araral)
The pine wood nematode, a microscopic worm carried by sawyer beetles, entered Japan in the early 1900s and has since killed large tracts of the country's pine trees. It entered Missouri in the US in 1979 and until now continues to decimate pines in several mid-western and eastern states.

2007-12-03 EPAL: FORGED PALLETS TO BE DESTROYED (By Rick LeBlanc)
Cooperative pallet pools such as EPAL and the Canadian Pallet Council do not actually own pallets.
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2007-12-03 Winners, losers in dollar slide (By ERIC ANDERSON)
The window shades and shutters that Comfortex Corp. makes at its plant here are getting more popular north of the border.

November 2007

2007-11-30 Australian Institute of Packaging conducts product identification seminar
The Australian Institute of Packaging recently held a half day seminar on product identification at the Hilton Hotel in Brisbane.

2007-11-30 Berkeley woman sues after falling on pallet at Wal-Mart (By Cara Bailey)
Berkeley woman sues after falling on pallet at Wal-Mart (By Cara Bailey)

2007-11-27 Trucks perform double act at Schiedel Rite Vent
When Schiedel Rite Vent was planning a new finished goods and raw materials warehouse at its factory it specified double deep racking served by a new Atlet lift truck to maximise storage capacity.

2007-11-27 Company says biomass power plant could add 120 jobs to Watertown (BY JONATHAN SHUGARTS)
"A company proposing to build a 30-megawatt biomass power plant near Route 8 estimates the project will create jobs for at least 120 workers.

2007-11-27 Maves' Next Generation e-Z Ware Unveiled at 2nd Annual President's Council
Maves, a leading third party logistics software provider, proudly hosted their second successful President's Council on Monday, November 5th, 2007. Attendees heard presentations on energy efficient lighting, advances in the use of automated handling equipment, the evolution of warehouse storage racking and the impact on safety in the work place as well as the control and management of pallets and storage containers in the supply chain.

2007-11-27 Reward offered to find fire culprits

2007-11-26 Forget Foreign Oil : Use Pallet Power
While Poet-Broin still has me cranky for co-opting the name of a noble profession to euphemize a big industrial operation, the ethanol company is making a good move toward local energy self-sufficiency.

2007-11-26 IPICO and CHEP commit to Dual Frequency RFID development in Australia and New Zealand
IPICO Inc. (TSX-V:RFD - News) today announced that it has signed a letter of intent with CHEP Australia for the trial and development of IPICO's passive Dual Frequency RFID tags in CHEP's managed returnable packaging solutions.

2007-11-26 Biomass power plant proposed in Watertown
Company representatives for an Essex-based energy company have applied to the Connecticut Siting Council to build a biomass power plant near Route 8 and Echo Lake Road.

2007-11-22 Jobs boost as factory open
JOBS are to be created in the Peterborough area with the opening of a new manufacturing company.

2007-11-22 Macquarie: BXB - Buyback Speculation Lifts Shares
Brambles shares have rocketed ahead in morning trade (up 1.5%) as traders speculate that the share price will rally now that BXB has obtained share holder approval to buy back up to 10% of its stock, starting this week

2007-11-22 Worcester man killed in forklift accident
A WORCESTERSHIRE father has been killed in a freak forklift truck accident.

2007-11-22 Toro Pallets plan to enter Indian market with pallet pooling solutions
India's supply chain and its connection to the rapidly growing retail sector has attracted Aluminum & Hybrid Pallet manufacturer Toro Pallets LLC, to start operations in India.

2007-11-22 China International Pallet Conference Announced
We are back for 2007 China International Pallet Conference! And this year the conference time is intended to be set to the same as last year from Nov/29/2007 to Nov/30/2007

2007-11-19 Brambles on track for a strong year (by Trevor Chappell)
BRAMBLES expects strong profit growth for fiscal 2008 on the back of solid sales growth from CHEP, its pallets and containers business, and Recall, its document and information management division.

2007-11-19 Robotic palletising of animal bedding
Stacking 20 kg bales of straw onto a pallet is a difficult job and loading them to a height of 3.2 metres is arduous to do manually, with significant risk of injury.

2007-11-16 Brambles expects profit increase for 2008 (by John Winters)
Shares in Brambles Limited (BXB) were sitting 4% higher after the company said it expects strong cash generation to continue in 2008.

2007-11-16 Wood pallets to help power ethanol plant
Ethanol refineries typically run on natural gas, but the nation's top producer of the alternative fuel plans to use discarded wood pallets to help power one of its plants.

2007-11-16 Chancellor Ethanol Plant Converting To Wood Power (By Brian Allen)
An alternative energy company will now itself use an alternative energy in it's production process.

2007-11-15 Heinz source...
LPR, the pallet pool company, has signed a new contract with food manufacturer, Heinz
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2007-11-15 Ash borer limits hit Middlesex
Middlesex County has been added to a long list of communities that have been hit with quarantine notices in the fight against the emerald ash borer.

2007-11-15 Aluminum Pallets available in Thailand under innovative leasing program
Canonball Business Products Co., Ltd has been appointed as Authorized Sales Agent for Toro Pallets LLC in Thailand.

2007-11-15 Asciano not planning to bid for Brambles
Transport infrastructure firm Asciano Group says it has no current intention of making a takeover offer for global pallets and containers company Brambles Ltd but will retain its stake in the company.

2007-11-15 LEFCO and Worthington Form Joint Venture
Worthington Industries (NYSE:WOR) announced today that its subsidiary, Worthington Steelpac Systems, LLC, has acquired a 49 percent interest in LEFCO Industries, LLC, a minority business enterprise (MBE)

2007-11-15 Metro Group completes Europe's largest RFID rollout (By Ahmed ElAmin)
The Metro Group has upped the ante in Europe's move toward using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, completing the roll out of its use to 180 additional stores and warehouses in Germany.

2007-11-15 Forklift truck sales approach record levels
The UK fork lift truck market rose to 31,700 annual unit orders in the second quarter of 2007 - approaching the peak demand of 32,000 trucks last reached in early 2005, according to figures from the British Industrial Truck Association.

2007-11-15 Update: Three Hurt following Warehouse Accident
Several ambulances were called to the scene of an industrial accident inside the Patterson Warehouse off Route 481 in the City of Fulton Friday morning.

2007-11-15 Software solutions for pallet tracking
Even though today there is a business case for using the RFID technology in pallets for the purpose of asset tracking (for expensive equipments), the technology sill hasn`t found its way to the cheaper products and sectors like food industry.

2007-11-15 Worthington forms joint venture with Cleveland pallet maker
A Worthington Industries Inc. subsidiary has struck up a joint venture with a Cleveland crate and pallet manufacturer.

2007-11-09 IFCO SYSTEMS reports significant profitability and cash flow improvements in Q3 2007
Q3 2007 revenues 9.3% above prior year levels as a result of volume growth in both business segments.

2007-11-09 After Being Overhyped, RFID Starts to Deliver (By SCOTT DENNE)
Despite its initial promise to revolutionize the supply chain, radio-frequency identification technology never took off in line with the wild projections made by many analysts and venture capitalists.

2007-11-09 Lm10.5 million invested in brewery project
During a visit to Farsons Brewery by Prime Minister Dr Lawrence Gonzi, Simonds Farsons Cisk plc announced on Thursday that a major investment in two capital projects is nearing completion.

2007-11-09 No thought of bid for Brambles: Asciano
Transport infrastructure firm Asciano Group said that it has no current intention of making a takeover offer for global pallets and containers company Brambles Ltd but will retain its stake in the company.

2007-11-08 Metro Sees Progress With Its Frozen-Foods Pilot (By Rhea Wessel)
The retailer is using RFID-enabled forklifts at a distribution center in Hamm, Germany, to track tagged pallets of frozen food and the locations where they are stored.

2007-11-08 Scott Group earnings buoyed by acquisition of Crofton Pallets
Scott Group, the acquisitive pallet specialist, achieved a big increase in profits in 2006 after completing what had been its biggest purchase to date during the year.

2007-11-08 Pallets & RFID Technology : is RFID ready to jump into the pool? (By Susan Lacefield)
With its unmatched track-and-trace capabilities, RFID would seem a natural for use in pallet pools. So why is it taking so long to catch on?

2007-11-08 Haisan strengthens presence in China (by Lim Yu Min)
Haisan Resources Bhd has further strengthened its market leader position as an integrated cold chain logistics provider in China with three multiple temperature-controlled facilities (MTCF) in China.

2007-11-08 iGPS Co. signs pact with Imperial Sugar
Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Co. LLC) has announced it has signed an exclusive agreement with Imperial Sugar to provide plastic pallets to the company.

October 2007

2007-10-30 Pallet Trucks Pose Problems On Mid-State Roadways
Across the nation and in Middle Tennessee, pallet trucks are posing dangers to drivers.

2007-10-26 Swindon firm shops in Tesco (By Leigh Robinson)
The Swindon-based HiLo-PSS Group's £8m investment in its world class manufacturing facility in Romania is paying dividends.

2007-10-26 Imperial Sugar Implements RFID-Enabled Plastic Pallets
Imperial Sugar (NASDAQ:IPSU) announced today that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Intelligent Global Pooling Systems ("iGPS") to become the first sugar company to begin using RFID-enabled plastic pallets to deliver its products to its customers.

2007-10-26 Plastic2go releases new model hybrid pallet
Plastic2go has released a new model hybrid pallet made to the ISO Standard of pallets which can be used to export product to Europe, New Zealand and many other countries.

2007-10-26 Wal-Mart places fuel cell order for pallet trucks
US retail giant Wal-Mart has placed an order with Cellex Power Products for GenDrive fuel cell power units to be used in the firm's lift trucks.

2007-10-25 Has pallet fatigue finally set in? (by Justin Stanton)
While the suspension of operations at Alliance Freight Network (AFN) may have been greeted with some schadenfreude among its longer-established rivals, it is clearly unfortunate for those who have lost out as a result.

2007-10-25 Pallets burn in Townsend (By MOLLY LINN)
An acre of wooden pallets created an inferno Monday afternoon that took six fire departments nearly two hours to extinguish.

2007-10-25 Wood Pallets Vs. Plastic Pallets (By : John Morris)
Before we go directly to the comparison between wood and plastic pallets, lets first discuss a few things about pallets in general. Also referred to as skids, pallets are platforms youll see commonly used in manufacturing companies; they help workers transfer high volume of goods that are of considerable weight from one place to another.

2007-10-22 What the blazes are those kids putting in that bonfire (By William Hageman)
To alumni and students at Marmion Academy in Aurora, the traditional Friday night bonfire is a highlight of homecoming week.

2007-10-22 Make more informed lift truck buys
Lift truck makers offer online tools to help buyers calculate the benefits of AC power systems, narrow aisle lift trucks and other features.

2007-10-22 Hybrid pallets available for export from Plastic2Go
Until recently, buyers of pallets for export had two options: timber or plastic.

2007-10-19 Scott Group acquire Marlaw Pallets
John and Norman Scott of the Scott Group have acquired Marlaw Pallets in a multimillion-pound deal.

2007-10-18 2ic Pallets Now Enables Pallet Data Transfer to IPP Logipal and LPR for UK & Ireland Pallet Markets
Following its recent decision to enter the United Kingdom and Irish markets, 2ic Software has released a new version of 2ic Pallets that fully caters for the pallet reconciliation and management needs of European users.

2007-10-18 Building the better plastic pallet (By Bob Trebilcock)
iGPS is betting that the market is ready to pool plastic pallets.
Does the world need another plastic pallet?

2007-10-16 Wal-Mart Eyes $287 Million Benefit From RFID
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could increase sales by US$287 million by fixing just a small portion of its inventory problems using RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, and that could be just the start, an executive said Friday.

2007-10-12 Local pallet manufacturer penalized for unsafe working conditions (Carlos Seller)
When it comes to safety in the work place, identifying and assessing all possible hazards around the work area is essential. Unfortunately, some companies learn this the hard way, as such is the case with Major Wood Products LLC, a manufacturer of wood pallets in Carrollton.

2007-10-12 CHEP Prevails Again in its Fight Against Illegal Pallet Pools
Recently, two separate courts in Spain and France ruled in favour of CHEP, the global leader in pallet and container pooling,
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2007-10-09 Fife firm piling up the pallets
A Fife-based packaging firm has taken over a rival pallet manufacturer in a multi-million pound deal.

2007-10-08 Impinj Revs Up Speedway Reader with Octane 3.0 Firmware for Enterprise-Ready RFID Solutions
Leading UHF Gen 2 RFID technology supplier Impinj, Inc. introduced Octane 3.0, a firmware upgrade to the company's Speedway UHF Gen 2 readers, that supports LLRP (low-level reader protocol), improves performance and expands software vendor support.

2007-10-08 ECOPAL – the future of pallets
Today the 100% recyclable paper pallet Ecopal has firmly established itself as the most successful paper pallet in the world with 9 manufacturing sites in 3 continents run by independent and innovative corrugated board manufacturers.

2007-10-08 A fire destroyed several structures at the Busy B's Pallet manufacturing plant on the 5000 block of Dryden Road in Moraine.
Fire officials said there was no one injured from the blaze.

2007-10-04 EPAL Looks to Global Expansion, And Addresses Challenges (By Chaille Brindley)
As the world becomes smaller, the packaging decisions of one country easily can become a headache for others. Europe has discovered this to be the case as it strives to enhance its primary exchange pool of 800 x 1200 mm block pallets.

September 2007

2007-09-25 UK Pallets to push in Europe (by Sarah Dennis)
Business Post-owned pallet network UK Pallets says growth in Europe is the network's current focus.

2007-09-21 Niemeyer secures new role at MHIA
Ray Niemeyer has been appointed director - membership at the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA).

2007-09-17 Helesi a "BUY" from Investors Chronicle
The company is seen it turnover rise to 22.6 million EUROS with pre-tax profits at 3.03 million Euros.

2007-09-17 Scott Group targets £150m turnover
SCOTT Group, already one of the UK's biggest wooden pallet makers, is targeting a near doubling of turnover to £150 million as it further diversifies the business.

2007-09-17 Pallets fuel warehouse fire in W. Phoenix
Phoenix firefigters are expected to work into Friday evening to contain a blaze at a west Phoenix warehouse that was fueled by thousands of piled up wooden pallets.

2007-09-17 Fire engulfs thousands of pallets in west Phoenix warehouse area
A major fire is burning in thousands of wooden pallets in an industrial area in west Phoenix and has spread to nearby semi-truck trailers.

2007-09-17 Second death from falling bricks in two days (Neil Gerrard)
A 20-year-old man has been killed on a construction site on Plymouth, just one day after a similar accident took the life of an 18-year-old in Scotland.

2007-09-14 Tesco Group FD moves to Sydney (by Adrie van der Luijt)
Tesco's Group International Finance Director Elizabeth Doherty will leave after six years to join Sydney-based Brambles, owner of CHEP pallets and containers and Recall data management.

2007-09-14 Teenage builder crushed to death
A teenage builder has been crushed to death by a pallet of bricks.

2007-09-14 Woman collides with pallet jack sues Wal-Mart (By Michelle Massey)
Two days before Christmas in 2005, Dawn Howell was shopping in a Longview Wal-Mart when she fell after colliding with a pallet jack.

2007-09-11 Three firms to bring 188 jobs to Cork
Cork received a major jobs boost today with the announcement that three firms are to set up in county and create 188 jobs.

2007-09-11 OptiLedge system available from Australian Warehouse Solutions
The answer to reducing export pallet costs is the new OptiLedge system. OptiLedge is a food grade and is totally reusable.

2007-09-07 KN opens midlands distribution centre
KN Drinks Logistics has open-ed a new regional distribution centre near Birmingham. The shared-user facility at Hams Hall includes a 14,524sq m warehouse and 1,152sq m of office space.

2007-09-07 Automating value-added services (By Bob Trebilcock)
While custom packaging, labeling and kitting are labor intensive operations, automation can make some value-added services more efficient. While custom packaging, labeling and kitting are labor intensive operations, automation can make some value-added services more efficient.

2007-09-07 Lantech has success all wrapped up.
Pat Lancaster, left, and son Jim are chairman and CEO of shrink-wrap innovator Lantech.

2007-09-06 Food & Beverage : a taste for automation (By James Aaron Cooke)
With 5,000 pallets about to come pouring into its new DC each day, Gordon Food Service decided there was just one thing to do: automate.

2007-09-05 Australian shares higher in light early trade, investors await fresh US lead
Australian shares were slightly higher in early trade Tuesday, although volumes were low with many investors sidelined awaiting the re-opening of US markets after a long weekend.

2007-09-05 Officials: Fire near Henry Coe park could devour up to 30,000 acres (By Leslie Griffy and Sandra Gonzales)
Firefighter Ryan Wake and other firefighters with California Fire... (Patrick Tehan / Mercury News)

2007-09-05 Holding pest invasion at bay
Bark beetles and other alien insects could damage our forests

2007-09-03 Optimizing Pallet Sizes within the Global Supply Chain (By Drs. Dong-Sun Shin, Marshall S. White, Jongkoo Han)
As recognition of the important relationship between pallet size selection and supply chain optimization continues to grow, interest in standardizing pallet sizes is also increasing.

2007-09-03 Pallet trucks are for moving pallets from one place to another.
When your sights laser in on a pugnacious little bulldog blazing down the street, what is the first thought that crosses your mind? Well, if you are semi truck driver, you will leap and yell Hey! That s Mack! Bull Dog is a trademark of Mack Trucks Inc, an old horse in the trucking world. Mack Trucks Inc is known for building heavy-duty trucks that are capable of enduring a punishing terrain and the vagaries of nature.

2007-09-03 Friendly's Warehouse Trades for $6.3M
Angelo, Gordon & Co. Buys Regional Industrial Hub of Ice Cream Maker

August 2007

2007-08-30 FEMA Giving Away Ice: Ice Left Outside Warehouse
Tuesday evening, August 28, 2007, hundreds of bags of ice were piled up outside an Orange Mound warehouse....melting.

2007-08-28 Little hints on Brambles' Chep business (Geoff Easdown)
TOLL Holdings yesterday indicated its growing interest in Brambles was centred on the major logistics group's Asian-based Chep pallet business.

2007-08-28 The RFID China Conundrum
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2007-08-28 Powerful Australian Pallet and Container Control Software Now Available in Canada
Australian headquartered 2ic Software has commenced direct operations in Canada with the appointment of Distribution Partners in both Vancouver and Toronto.

2007-08-24 Brambles Profit Rises 36% on New U.S. Customers (By Chia-Peck Wong)
Brambles Ltd., the world's biggest supplier of pallets used to move and store goods, said full-year profit rose 36 percent as it attracted more U.S. customers.

2007-08-24 UK Pallets Adds To Network
UK Pallets, the palletised freight distribution operation within Business Post, has expanded its UK network with the introduction of three new member organisations.

2007-08-24 Investigation continues into Catawba fire
A four-acre fire in Catawba is still smoking, although the fire is out.

2007-08-23 Orlando pallet supplier opens center in Suffolk (By GREGORY RICHARDS)
CHEP, an Orlando, Fla.-based supplier of shipping pallets, has opened a 21,000-square-foot pallet service center at Bridgeway Commerce Center III on Harbour View Boulevard.

2007-08-23 Nailing new profits (By Patricia B. Gray)
FSB helps a pallet recycling company win more business by changing its image, securing large clients, and broadcasting its services to potential customers.

2007-08-21 Brambles takeover rumours mounting
SPECULATION is mounting that a private equity consortium is considering a $22 billion bid for Brambles, the world's biggest pallet company, after Toll Holdings and its ports-rail spin-off Asciano revealed they had built a stake in the outfit.

2007-08-21 Brambles takeover rumours mounting
BRAMBLES has soared on speculation Toll Holdings and its offshoot, Asciano, could lodge a takeover bid for the company after both bought separate stakes in the logistics group.

2007-08-21 Wireless Technologies Yield New Efficiencies On Factory Floor Interview With Bob Bunsey, SPEDE Technologies
Next Generation Manufacturing Magazine asked Bob Bunsey, President and CEO of SPEDE Technologies, to describe how the latest wireless technologies are being used to increase efficiency and accuracy in plant floor operations.

2007-08-21 Sunrise Greenhouse Manufacturing Inc. fined $100,000 for health and safety violation
Sunrise Greenhouse Manufacturing Inc., a Kingsville, Ont.-based manufacturer of greenhouse components, was fine $100,000 today for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that resulted in the death of one employee and serious injury to another.

2007-08-21 Full Asciano tilt at Brambles 'unlikely'
Infrastructure company Asciano has again increased its stake in pallet and plastic container provider, Brambles, but analysts say a full takeover is not likely.

July 2007

2007-07-27 Postal Logistics is the first to earn USPS OK to co-palletize (by Melissa Campanelli)
Postal Logistics Services LLC earlier this year became the first company certified by the US Postal Service to co-palletize mailings of Standard mail letter-size pieces in trays received from authorized mail preparers.

2007-07-25 Academic Distributor Improves Shipment Accuracy (By Claire Swedberg)
To help it cope with its crush of summertime orders from primary schools, Rolec is using RFID to verify the contents of each pallet before loading it on a truck.

2007-07-24 Reclaimed timber - New Desk
The Most DH has scored a win for the environment.

2007-07-24 Billion Pallets Wrapped And Counting
Today, Lantech leads the industry with the dominant market share, 175 U.S. and foreign patents, more than 400 employees and continuing independent ownership under CEO Jim Lancaster, son of founder Pat Lancaster, who serves as Chairman and product development consultant to the company.

2007-07-20 Thigh-High Eyesores (Marc Hershon's blog)
A while back I posted a blog item about an unsightly habit some people have developed, that of leaving piles of their discarded junk out on the street with a hand-written "FREE!" sign on them

2007-07-20 Pallet company building destroyed (Mary Jo Denton)
Fire roared through a building at the Preferred Pallets Inc. business in west Cookeville last night, causing an estimated $250,000 loss.

2007-07-19 Drugs among the tulips
Employees at a flower transport company in Aalsmeer found an enormous quantity of drugs among the pallets of flowers last week.

2007-07-19 Wood Pallets Burn in Phoenix Fire
More than 90 firefighters battled a blaze Thursday night that involved hundreds of wooden pallets.

2007-07-19 Why take the trouble to recycle when you can burn?
The environmental travesty which was the Eleventh night bonfires has made me consider whether there's any point in recycling anything in Northern Ireland.

2007-07-19 Fire smolders at recycling plant in north Denver (By Hector Gutierrez)
A stubborn smoldering fire burned at a recycling plant in an industrial Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of north Denver today, spewing clouds of white and yellow smoke.

2007-07-19 Standard & Poor's raised Debt Rating for IFCO SYSTEMS
IFCO SYSTEMS announces that Standard & Poor's has raised the debt rating for IFCO SYSTEMS by two notches from B to BB-.

2007-07-19 Timpack – New Zealand's Largest Pallet Company: Focus on Providing Professional Service and Products at Every Opportunity (By Ed Brindley)
In March of 2007, I was fortunate to be one of about 30 people who spent two weeks visiting the beautiful island country of New Zealand, including a tour of several pallet companies and sawmills and the first pallet industry meeting ever held in New Zealand.

2007-07-19 Appeals court absolves Menards in accident
A woman who sued Menards after she said a pallet fell on her has offered no proof the home improvement giant was negligent, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

2007-07-19 Collaboration brings success for Australian EPC/RFID pilot
A multi-industry Australian consortium shared how Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) using  GS1 Australia's global standards can improve productivity, reduce delivery processing times, and open up visibility throughout the supply chain for the benefit of all trading partners

2007-07-19 Battery Giant Sued for Worker Injuries (By Eddie Farah)
John "Chuck" Mikell, says he had no idea what substance he was handling at a former Energizer battery plant in Alachua County.

2007-07-19 Dr. Mark White Becomes Professor Emeritus at Retirement Party (By Ed Brindley)
On May 24, the Center for Unit Load Design (CULD) advisory board met to discuss issues of importance at the Center for Unit Load Design.

2007-07-19 Wyeth Accused of Milk Cover-Up Abroad (By TERESA CEROJANO)
Breast-feeding advocates who tipped off authorities prompting them to recall millions of cans of infant formula made by U.S.-based Wyeth alleged Wednesday that the company tried to cover up possible product contamination due to rain.

June 2007

2007-06-28 CHEP Australia expects to start putting radio frequency identification tags on 12 million timber pallets in the next six months as it moves to begin using the technology for electronic proof of delivery and asset tracking.
The decision follows a recent pilot of RFID tagging that involved Chep and other firms, including Telstra and Masterfoods, which are all keen to promote the tiny radio tags in the supply chain.

2007-06-25 Brambles sustains positive FY07 outlook (By: Georgia Fekete)
Brambles Limited (BXB) announced that it anticipated that it would perform in line with its outlook for fiscal 2007

2007-06-25 Brambles Shares Decline as European Pallet Sales Growth Stalls (By Tim Smith)
Shares in Brambles Ltd., the world's biggest supplier of pallets used to move and store goods, fell the most in four months as European sales growth stalled.

2007-06-21 Australia's Brambles on track for solid to June profit growth
Brambles Ltd said it expects to report solid earnings growth from its retained CHEP pallets businesses and its Recall documents handling business for the year to June, as it continues to benefit from a major restructuring program initiated two years ago.

2007-06-21 Brambles shares fall as Europe figures disappoint
Wood-free crates and ultra-lightweight aluminum pallets.

2007-06-21 Ash borer quarantine coming in county
By this fall, Middlesex County may be the next county quarantined by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in the fight against the Emerald Ash Borer.

2007-06-19 Nilkamal board to consider dividend
A meeting of the board of directors of Nilkamal will be held on Jun. 28, 2007 to consider dividend and take on record results for the fourth quarter and audited financial results for the financial year ended Mar. 31, 2007,

2007-06-18 CHEP announce decision to implement Cascade HR
CHEP is the global leader in pallet and container pooling services, serving customers in a wide range of industrial and retail supply chains, including consumer goods, fruit and vegetable, meat, home improvement, beverage, raw materials, petro-chemical and automotive industries.

2007-06-18 Fire destroys 2 buildings at Newbury pallet business
Newbury Township- Fire destroyed two buildings of a pallet business Friday night as several local departments fought the flames.

2007-06-18 Tipton blaze causes $250k in damage (By Luis Hernandez)
Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that burned 5,000 pallets and recycled wooden material at a Tipton business, causing an estimated $250,000 in damages and forcing the evacuation of five homes for three hours Wednesday.

2007-06-18 The Pallet People - Weird Phenomonons of working in Industry
Working for a manufacturing company has introduced me to a lot of weird ways people make money.

2007-06-18 Innovations In Material Handling (By Adrienne Selko)
Wood-free crates and ultra-lightweight aluminum pallets.

2007-06-15 Six-Alarmer Guts New Hampshire Business
A fire at a business in Hudson sent flames 50 feet into the air.

2007-06-15 Fire contained at Urbandale pallet recycler
A fire at an Urbandale pallet recycler this afternoon forced firefighters to cut a hole in the structure to keep flames from consuming the building.

2007-06-15 Fire Still Burning In Benton Township (by John Tramontana)
More than half of Kamps Pallets has been destroyed by flames, but the company's Chief Operating Officer says it's not a total loss.

2007-06-15 'No room' for new pallet networks
Newcomers into pallet distribution should think about niche markets, says Palletline managing director Glyn Jones.

2007-06-15 Pallet Yard Fire Extinguished by Wednesday Morning
Close to 48 hours after the fire at Kamp's Pallets started in Benton Township, fire fighters have the blaze under control. Crews shifted their focus Tuesday; it's no longer the pallets they're worried about. Instead, it's the piles of mulch, up to 35 feet high.

2007-06-15 Borer causes ban to widen (By DEBORA VAN BRENK, SUN MEDIA)
Another 18,000 London property owners will be barred from moving ash wood as of next Monday.

2007-06-15 Burning pallets inflame residents (By BEVIN MILAVSKY)
A township man accused of burning pallets repeatedly on his property has been warned by the Department of Environmental Protection to clean up his act after neighbors complained to authorities of the smoke and noxious smell.

2007-06-15 Canada Pallet invests in massive lumber saw (by Valerie MacDonald)
Every year almost three million wooden pallets leave Cobourg with a destiny that includes world travel.

2007-06-14 Warehouses Protect Pallet Racks and Personnel with New Safety Measures
Combine two powerful products and maximize your facility safety

2007-06-11 Pallet firm to help palliative care for WorkCover rap
A company which makes pallets has been ordered to provide $50,000 to build a palliative care unit in Colac, in south-west Victoria, after being convicted of WorkCover offences.

2007-06-11 Heavy-lifting company makes swift take off (By Mike Gorrell)
More than four decades have passed since Henning Hoj read a trade-publication article that changed his business life.

2007-06-07 IFCO SYSTEMS signs RPC service agreement with CARREFOUR in Spain
IFCO SYSTEMS announces, that CENTROS COMERCIALES CARREFOUR, the leading retailer in Spain, with annual revenues of 10 billion € and with almost three hundred points of sale, has signed a long term agreement with IFCO SYSTEMS to become its exclusive RPC service provider for fruits and vegetables.
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2007-06-07 New Pallet and Load Optimisation technology from RedPrairie
RedPrairie Corporation, a consumer driven optimisation company, announced today that its new Pallet and Load Optimisation technology, part of its integrated E2e solutions for consumer goods, reduces freight costs and product damage while improving shipment safety and compliance with customer and legislative trailer loading requirements.

2007-06-07 Employees evacuated as cold store blazes
Four appliances attended the fire at the Co-op cold store in Ivatt Way, where pallets were backed up to a door near the boiler room, where the blaze broke out.

2007-06-04 Used Pallet Rack & Used Warehouse Storage Rack Can Save Thousands of Dollars
Used pallet rack & used warehouse storage rack, available from RackMasters USA, www.rackmastersusa.com, can save you thousands of dollars compared to new pallet rack

2007-06-04 No Defense for Erroneous DOD Article (By Andrew Price)
An article in the latest edition of National Defense Magazine has this startling headline: " Tracking Military Supplies No Longer Requires RFID ." The article gained a lot of attention within the U.S. Department of Defense, mainly because it's wholly inaccurate. The DOD isn't backing off its RFID tagging requirement.

May 2007

2007-05-31 Tile firm fined after workman nearly killed (by Marianne Taylor)

2007-05-31 Pallet Company Under Zoning Gun (By John Chambliss)
A local pallet company may be several boards away from being forced to shut down.

2007-05-28 Preparing for sunday's Watchfire

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2007-05-28 New listing on Euronext: Eryplast SA
Today, 1,371,630 ordinary shares of Eryplast SA were listed on the Free Market of Euronext Brussels.

2007-05-28 Compost bins - Compost Bins Wood Pallet Compost Bins. Wood pallets
Compost Bins Wood Pallet Compost Bins. Wood pallets are easy to and compost bins make an easy-to-build, sturdy compost bin. ... Wire Mesh Compost Bins.

2007-05-28 Fire destroys Moorland pallet company building (Obaid Khawaja)
Two buildings damaged at Was Broken Pallet Co.

2007-05-28 Imaje launches specialised pallet labeller
Imaje, a global marking, labelling and coding company has added a new system to its Imaje 2000 series product line.

2007-05-28 Trade body for pallet networks
Pallet operators have formed their own trade organisation, the Association of Pallet Networks, to raise awareness of the network sector and to represent the interests of its members with media and government.

2007-05-28 Global Pallet Systems now in liquidation (Sarah Dennis)
Fledgling pallet network Global Pallet Systems has gone into liquidation this week after a creditors meeting revealed the company owed £250,000. GPS,

2007-05-24 Man dies in forklift accident
A man in his mid-40s was killed this morning when a forklift he was driving overturned and crushed him at a grass seed warehouse

2007-05-24 Palletline plc
Founded in 1992, Palletline was the UK's first national network dedicated to pallet distribution.
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2007-05-22 Afternoon Fire Destroys Two Businesses
Jackson Mayor Frank Melton is trying to push forward with his plans to tear down a local business -- but the owners don't want to go.T

2007-05-22 Crown sponsors national forklift driver competition
CHEP Australia will join Crown in supporting the "safety first" event.

2007-05-22 Recycling facility burns for 3rd time (Elias C. Arnold)
A Kingman-area wooden pallet recycling facility caught fire Sunday, the third time in less than a year, 12 News reported.

2007-05-22 Home Depot Helps Community Take Steps In Eco-Minded Direction
The environment has become a hot topic for the public, politicians and big business. This is a good sign because without any one of these participants, moving forward in a responsible manner simply would not work.

2007-05-22 Composite epoxy pallets need no nails
Icepallet has developed and produced pallets using a range of formulated minerals in conjunction with an expandable composite epoxy system from Huntsman Advanced Materials

2007-05-22 Witron: Automated Supply Chain Solution for Canadian grocery retailer Sobeys
Canada's second-largest grocery retailer, Sobeys Inc., invests in state-of-the-art warehouse and picking technology.

2007-05-21 Fanelli employee flown to hospital, not hurt in incident with forklift (by Sarah Herbert-Hannick)
A Fanelli Warehousing & Distribution Center Inc. employee was transported by helicopter to Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown area, after an accident involving a forklift around 1 p.m. Friday.

2007-05-21 Melton Wants Pallet Company Torn Down
Jackson Mayor Frank Melton is trying to push forward with his plans to tear down a local business -- but the owners don't want to go.The owners of the A-1 Pallet Company on Mill Street met the city fire marshal and city inspectors Tuesday morning.

2007-05-21 City Inspectors Denied Access To Pallet Company (By David Kenney)
It's at the top of Mayor Melton's list of properties to clean up the Farish Street District.

2007-05-21 Large industrial fire near Kingman
Firefighters spent most of Sunday evening battling a large fire in a wooden pallet recycling facility near the Kingman Airport.

2007-05-21 A fire ripped through a pallet factory in northern Bullitt County on Thursday
All employees managed to escape the four-alarm blaze, authorities said.

2007-05-21 A four-alarm fire wipes out a Bullitt county business.
No one was hurt but investigators say the warehouse was full of wooden pallets -- fueling the flames.

2007-05-11 IFCO SYSTEMS reports Q1 2007 results
Although Q1 2007 earnings are significantly lower than those of Q1 2006, the business development was in line with management's expectations.
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2007-05-11 Yerington onion farmers announce deal
Yerington's Peri & Sons Farms, Inc., one of the nation's largest growers of onions, has upgraded its partnership with pallet maker CHEP by implementing an electronic data interchange system that makes using the company's pallet program more efficient, it announced in a statement Tuesday.

2007-05-10 Peri & Sons Strengthens CHEP Relationship
Peri & Sons has seen customer service and productivity benefits from the CHEP pallet program since 1999.

2007-05-10 UPN launches micro pallet service
UPN has launched a micro pallet service through its 60 depots allowing customers to ship pallets of up to 150 kilos.

2007-05-03 Checkpoint Systems is testing RFID on palets

The company announced its involvement in a series of UHF RFID technology trials supervised by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

2007-05-03 Fire codes put heat on Home Depot (By Rebekah Gordon)
Home Depot may be able to help you remodel your kitchen, but according to vigilant shoppers and the fire marshal, they could have trouble keeping you safe from a fire.

2007-05-03 Welding spark ignites blaze at pallet mill (By Donna M. Perry)
About 45 firefighters from three towns responded Thursday night to Pallet-One Inc. to stop a blaze from a welding spark from spreading, Fire Chief Ken Jones said.

2007-05-03 Ihlein wins top job at Brambles
Logistics company Brambles has promoted chief financial officer Michael Ihlein to the post of chief executive.

2007-05-03 Wood pallets are good as gold to some crooks (By John Keilman)
The theft, police say, was an inside job: Two employees of a St. Charles food service company waited until the coast was clear, then helped a confederate make off with a truckload of hot merchandise.

2007-05-03 Rumours don't worry Brambles man (by Scott Rochfort)
BRAMBLES Industries chief executive-designate Mike Ihlein has shrugged off rumours the company could face a private equity buy-out, saying he did "not worry too much about it".

2007-05-03 The US second-hand pallets market (By Jeff McBee)
The very strong demand of the first semester of 2006 has decreased. Recyclers have today a normal but not stressed work.

2007-05-03 Clean Cut Pharmaceutical Handling
The bulk liquid handling market is huge and provides a significant economic contribution. 45 billion litres of filled goods are transported worldwide in IBC's each year.

April 2007

2007-04-30 CHEP, Revelation Software Concepts' Rev-Trac Maintain Productivity During Simultaneous SAP(R) ERP Application-Based Upgrades, Implementations of SAP NetWeaver(R) BI
Revelation Software Concepts Pty Ltd (RSC), an SAP(R) Software Partner, today announced its Rev-Trac(R) change management solution has enabled CHEP(R), the global leader in pallet and container pooling services, to carry out an extensive, dual project updating its asset management system across regions with no disruptions of core business processes.

2007-04-30 LINPAC installs new archive store for CSM
LINPAC Storage Systems has installed a complete archive shelving solution for CSM Archive Storage and Distribution's purpose built, warehouse.

2007-04-30 IPP Logipal strengthens management team
IPP Logipal, the fast growing pallet rental specialist, has appointed Martin Compton as its new financial controller and promoted David Bage to operations manager

2007-04-30 Palletways announces 28 per cent increase in turnover
The Palletways Group, Europe's largest pallet freight network provider which is backed by Phoenix Equity Partners, has announced a 28% increase in annual turnover for the 12 month period to 31st May 2006, with consolidated operating profit before amortisation of goodwill at $2.8m, compared to $2.7m the previous year.

2007-04-30 SOMI launches high-capacity trailer design
New trailer that is reckoned to increase load capacity by 32% without being higher or longer was launched at the CV Show this week.

2007-04-24 Bulla Dairy Foods uses Loscam pallets in a wide range
Bulla demands the perfect in pallets. Bulla Dairy Foods is somewhat of an institution for millions of Australians, who have tucked into their famous creams, yoghurts, ice creams and other healthy dairy products.

2007-04-16 Distribution Center Meets The Challenge
Unpredicted growth and an inferior pallet rack flow system threatened to gobble up the bottom line–but they found the solution to turn it all right

2007-04-16 Clever palletisation of paper sacks
Represented in the United Kingdom by Aetna UK, Euroimpianti can now add a well-known Turkish producer of starch and its derivatives, to their ever-expanding base of satisfied customers.

2007-04-16 New pallet wrappers for Strapex
Strapex, one of the world's leading suppliers of end of line packaging equipment, has further extended its range with two new families of pallet stretchwrapping machines.

2007-04-16 Fire Robot, Burning Man
As a proper gypsy, I'm a big fan of FIRE! Especially beach bonfires!

2007-04-16 Brambles joins Freightnow in fight for efficiency
CHEP manages and maintains more than 280 million pallets and containers for manufacturers, agricultural producers, distributors and retailers worldwide.

2007-04-06 Parmalat Canada Sees Cost Reductions with CHEP

Parmalat Canada, one of the country's most respected food companies, announced that yogurt, cheese, table spreads, and
other items from its Dairy Food Group (DFG) are now being transported on  
pallets from CHEP

2007-04-05 Wood Species identification for pallet and packaging Suppliers
About the Instructor Dr. Marshall "Mark" White has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Wood Science & Forest Products at Virginia Tech since 1975.

2007-04-05 RFID Strategy -- The Changing Nature Of RFID Value Propositions (by Paul Faber)
Questions of return-on-investment (ROI) have dominated the RFID discussion ever since Wal-Mart announced their retail compliance initiative in 2003. What have we really learned since then? Here are some of the lessons learned in the past few years in RFID retail compliance, thrown into sharp relief for me by a recent Wall Street Journal article.

2007-04-05 ALR announces recent expansion
ALR announced its recent expansion of its pallet repair operations.

2007-04-05 Yes, we have standards!
If you shudder at the prospect of non-standard pallets, we have good news. The Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA) has now made its official standard for pallets and slip sheets available to all interested parties.

2007-04-03 Innovative Data Systems Wins NWPCA Award
The National Wooden Pallet & Container Association (NWPCA) awarded its first-ever supplier innovation award to Innovative Data Systems of Sayville, N.Y. 

2007-04-03 Comparing Suppliers of Pallet Heat-Treating Systems, Chambers
Treating pallets for export applications is another way that pallet suppliers can add value to their products and profits to their business.

2007-04-02 Want to be a Supply Chain Hero? (By Lee Norman and Warren Sumner)
Go on. Be a hero! As a supply chain officer or executive, you can immediately go to your senior management team and confidently assert that at least six percent — and often as high as 35 percent (depending on your industry)

2007-04-02 Udge Orders Man Who Lied To Read Book
Gardner Man Convicted of Perjury

2007-04-02 Wal-Mart Disputes Reports On RFID (By Anita French)

2007-04-02 Manager admits illegal hirings
Supervisor at Guilderland plant faces up to 6 months in immigration scandal

2007-04-02 Ex-IFCO supervisor pleads guilty to hiring illegal aliens at Guilderland plant
A former assistant general manager at IFCO Systems North America in Guilderland, N.Y., pleaded guilty today to knowingly hiring illegal aliens, the latest supervisor to admit his role in a series of federal immigration violations at the international wood pallet recycling company.

March 2007

2007-03-30 Firemen battle lumber fire
Firefighters are trying to determine what caused a huge fire overnight behind a woodworking company.

2007-03-30 Pallet business burns in Townsend (By CHAUNCEY ALCORN)
A fire that occured Wednesday night at Reeds Supply Inc., County Road 312 in Townsend Township, caused an estimated $100,000 in damages.

2007-03-29 Nordson to display products at Auspack
Efficiency through innovation is Nordson Australia's theme at Auspack 2007.

2007-03-26 Australia's Brambles looking to buy IFCO in 1 bln usd deal - report
Brambles Ltd's board is believed to be looking at purchasing US-based pallet business IFCO for 1 bln usd, the Australian newspaper reported, without citing sources.

2007-03-26 Dover company faces fines after investigation in worker's death (By KYLE KONDIK)
Inca Presswood Pallets Ltd. of Dover faces $157,200 in fines after a federal investigation of the death of Michael J. Dean last September alleged that the company had willfully and seriously violated workplace safety standards.

2007-03-23 CAPE Systems to Exhibit at Dimensions '07

2007-03-23 Johanna Foods Expands CHEP Program To Yogurt Lines
Johanna Foods, a state-of-the-art food manufacturer, has announced that it is transporting its line of yogurt products on pallets from CHEP

2007-03-22 Fire in woods threatens door business (By RON COLQUITT)
A large woods fire Monday crept close to Barnett Millworks Inc. in southern Mobile County, setting pallets and railroad ties on fire behind the plant but not damaging the business, officials said.

2007-03-22 ATLAS Stacker from Bulk Handling Australia
The Stacker Pallet eliminates damaged packaging with loose pre packed goods on pallets by supporting the load from above.

2007-03-20 Robert invents a way to see what really happens inside a van trailer
You have to secure a load on a flat-bed trailer? No problem. Standard 10 of the National Safety Code on Cargo Securement, adopted in 2004, should give you pretty good instructions on how to proceed.

2007-03-16 Corinth Man Builds House Using Recycled Materials (Matt Bush)
Buying a house can be a very expensive proposition. But a man from Corinth has come up with a way to get a house at a rock bottom price. However, it does take a lot of work

2007-03-16 RFID: "Et tu, Brute?" -- Killing Some RFID "Truths"
Since "RFID Connections" tends to explain the benefits of RFID, this may be seen as "traitorous" -- but it needs to be done "for the good of the industry."

2007-03-15 Firefighters believe pallet fire was arson (NICOLE KONKAL)
The Kings Mountain Fire Department said they believe someone may have intentionally set a fire that destroyed over 15,000 pallets at the old Glen Raven Mill Sunday night.

2007-03-15 Business owner cleans up after suspected arson (By ANNA CROWLEY)
Investigators think Sunday night's raging fire in Kings Mountain may be the work of an arsonist.

2007-03-12 Compost for Your Organic Garden (By: Kat Yares)
Ask any serious gardener what his or her secret is, and I'm sure that 99% of the time, there answer will be compost.

2007-03-09 Keeping Inventory Flowing Despite New Green Regulations
Litco International offering pallets designed to meet new international regulations for companies shipping into Japan

2007-03-09 Intel rolls low-cost RFID reader chip (Rick Merritt)
A startup nurtured as part of Intel Capital has announced a low-cost integrated RFID reader chip for the UHF band.

2007-03-08 New Kuehne + Nagel logistics centre in Melbourne
The investment underlines Kuehne + Nagel's growth strategy in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region.

2007-03-06 The first Australian fully integrated RFID forklift
Peacock Bros. in conjunction with Intermec, Alpha Warehouse Solutions and Cascade have completed construction of Australia's first fully integrated RFID forklift now available for sale as a complete unit.

2007-03-06 Brambles Limited : IFCO - Threat or Opportunity?
IFCO could be a strategic threat to CHEP

2007-03-05 Agency targets company bosses (By Barry Newman)
Immigration case takes new angle

2007-03-05 Johanna Foods Expands CHEP Program to Yogurt Lines

2007-03-02 Leasing pallets through a pooling system isn't for everyone, but rising disposal costs and landfill restrictions are prompting more companies to jump into the pool (By David Maloney)
It used to be that companies joined pallet pools for one of two reasons: quality or convenience. Joining a pool meant an end to problems caused by cheap, low-quality pallets designed for one-time use.

2007-03-02 Lone Star Survivor: Ups & Downs of Pallet Life Along the Border (By Chaille Brindley)
Edgar is a survivor who was the first recycler to take on CHEP back when the rental giant refused to pay pallet companies for services connected with safeguarding stray blue pallets

2007-03-02 Thinking Ahead–Letter from Chaille: Lost or Stolen? Postal Pallets Pose a Problem (By Chaille M. Brindley)
The pallet industry is full of crooks. Or at least that must be what the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) thinks.

2007-03-02 Mayfair Lumber Expands Remanufacturing Operations: Company Adds Cross-Cut Package Saw from L-M Equipment Co. Ltd. (By Rick LeBlanc)
Mayfair Lumber first considered purchasing a cross-cut package saw several years ago, but the timing wasn't quite right.

2007-03-01 Wal-Mart's suppliers tag 65% of stock

Wal-Mart's 300 largest suppliers are attaching RFID tags to 65% of the products they send to the retailer.

2007-03-01 Managers of crate and pallet maker plead guilty to hiring illegals
Five former managers from a major crate and pallet manufacturer that employed illegal immigrants have pleaded guilty.

February 2007

2007-02-26 Pallet Guitar
Today we continue the expensive-guitars-made-out-of-cheap-wood series. On eBay: 2001 Taylor Pallet.
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2007-02-26 Les bénéfices du groupe Brambles
Les nouvelles du jour concernant le groupe Brambles avec l'annonce des bénéfices pour Chep (bénéfice net de $US982.6 million) pour la deuxième moitié de 2006.
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2007-02-26 IFCO SYSTEMS N.V. - EDEKA RPC supply contract
Revenues with EDEKA represents approx. 20 % of IFCO's worldwide RPC business, however the EDEKA business contributes in a significant lower percentage to the profit of this division.

2007-02-26 Applications open for logistics development award
Applications are now open for the Logistics Association of Australia's (LAA) 2007 Logistics Development Award.

2007-02-26 Brambles up 400% as chief bows out (by Bill Condie)
David Turner, the Englishman credited with turning round Anglo-Australian logistics firm Brambles, today unveiled a leap of almost 400% in net profits for the first half of the year - then announced he is stepping down as chief executive.
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2007-02-23 IFCO SYSTEMS Reports 2006 Results
Consolidated revenues grew by 12.3% to US $647.2 million compared to prior year, while EBITDA decreased by 2.2% to US $96.3 million.

2007-02-22 Les bénéfices du groupe Brambles
Les nouvelles du jour concernant le groupe Brambles avec l'annonce des bénéfices pour Chep (bénéfice net de $US982.6 million) pour la deuxième moitié de 2006.
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2007-02-22 The ROI from RFID
They've absorbed the cost of RFID hardware and software solutions to meet the mandate

2007-02-22 Brambles posts juicy H1, upbeat for H2
Logistics group Brambles says it sees strong second half growth for its CHEP pallet business after delivering a first half net profit of $US982.6 million ($A1.25 billion).
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2007-02-22 Brambles sees strong profit growth
LOGISTICS group Brambles says it sees strong second-half growth for its CHEP pallet business after delivering a first-half net profit of $US982.6 million ($1.2 billion) today

2007-02-22 Fortec pallet distribution network announces record year in 2006
Rugby-based Fortec Pallet Distribution Network has announced a record performance for the company in 2006 with turnover and volumes at an all-time high.

2007-02-22 Plastics, pallets catch fire (by Joachim Azzopardi)
ABOUT 50 firefighters were called to a blaze at a Welshpool warehouse yesterday afternoon.

2007-02-22 EL AL awards WFS freight contract
EL AL, Israel's national airline, has given its cargo handling contract at Heathrow to Worldwide Flight Services (WFS).

2007-02-20 Standards group works up RFID (Ben Woodhead)
GS1 Australia will hand down the findings of the second phase of its radio frequency identification

2007-02-16 Klenk : Pallet blocks instead of pallets
Klenk has decided to use its saw dust and residue for the production of pallet blocks

2007-02-16 UNIPAL - The right choice
UNIPAL is a modular system to manufacture corrugated pallets

2007-02-16 Gay Lea Foods Cooperative Joins CHEP Pallet Pool
Gay Lea Foods Cooperative Ltd., a leading producer and marketer of dairy products in Canada, announced it is transporting product on pallets from CHEP, the world's largest pallet and container pooling company.

2007-02-16 Tire warehouse avoids potential fire disaster (By Vern Faulkner)
A flurry of 911 calls saved a tire warehouse in Esquimalt from almost certain destruction

2007-02-13 Jeco Appoints Agent in Japan
Jeco Plastic Products-designer and manufacturer of plastic pallets and containers for the worldwide manufacturing and logistics industries since 1973-has appointed Smart Vision Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan, as its agent for the Japanese market.

2007-02-13 Bulldog Pallet blaze still under investigation
Bulldog Pallet's main building burned to the ground Wednesday night after a fire of still undetermined origin leveled the business the Pessolano's run next door to their home.

2007-02-08 RTS supplies technology solution to Integrated Logistics Centre
According to Integrated Logistics Centre (ILC), it long term partnership with RTS extends well over ten years. Integrated Logistics Centre has always found the team to be reliable and prompt with any call outs. RTS also consistently deliver quality solutions on time.

2007-02-08 Italy: new logistic infrastructure at Veronamercato
Veronamercato, the central market for fresh produce of Verona has inaugurated its new logistics infrastructure at the presence of the local authorities.

2007-02-08 You're sup-poster return the pallets
The misappropriation of pallets is costing the FMCG supply chain both financially and in terms of environmental impact and is a situation that could be avoided, warns leading pallet pool operator and owner of the red pallet, LPR

2007-02-08 Xterprise Makes Multimillion RFID Tag Purchase
RFID solutions provider Xterprise today released the latest update on the RFID deployment it is managing for Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS)

2007-02-06 The Surprise Driver Behind Today's RFID Projects (By Shelley Solheim, VARBusiness)

2007-02-06 Automatic pallet changers for subcontractor
Hemlock Engineering chose two of the fastest milling machines available - the Mikron XSM 600U - but in order to increase their efficiency fitted them with 7 automatic pallet changers.

2007-02-06 Glueless wrap-free pallet stabilisation reaps savings
A new pallet stabilisation system, Grip Stack, that transforms slippery cartons into grippy building blocks is slashing the costs of palletising —both financial and environmental.

2007-02-05 Cantiliever Pallet Racking from Alpha Warehouse Solutions
Alpha Warehouse Solutions has released the complete range of Cantiliever Pallet Racking, and finished another installation for Burnside Plastics in Melbourne Victoria

2007-02-05 Investigation shows woman pinned between pallets of lettuce
An Oklahoma woman whose body was found in a truck delivering lettuce to a grocery store warehouse

2007-02-05 Tax money wasted on pallets

2007-02-02 Virginia Tech Study Compares Methods for Splicing Pallet Parts (By Hamner, White, Rupert, Han)
Based on the results of the pilot study, Virginia Tech embarked on a larger study to fully examine the strength and stiffness of hardwood pallet parts assembled using both finger jointing and metal connector plate splicing technologies.
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2007-02-02 The Wal-Mart’s 7 R’s (From Ed Brindley, pallet enterprise)
Wal-Mart’s 7 R’s are remove, reduce, reuse, recycle, renew, revenue, and read. The initiatives include removing unnecessary packaging, use materials that are made from renewable resources, achieve goals without increasing costs, and educate suppliers about environmental sustainability.
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2007-02-01 Liberty Property Announces Lease Renewals, Expansions
Liberty Property Trust has added two new tenants to its Chicago metro area portfolio, with agreements that total more than 270,000 square feet.

2007-02-01 JEC Innovations Composites Awards Programme 2007: Finalists and Winners
The JEC Innovation Programme 2007 will reward 8 companies and their partners this year during the award ceremony April 3rd in the Orsay Museum in Paris.
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2007-02-01 Pallet Management
Pallets are needed in order to ship products from the manufactures to the retailers. Unfortunately once a pallet reaches the retail store it becomes a problem.

2007-02-01 Are you wasting pallets and money?
Pallets are used to ship products efficiently, with minimal damage to goods. In 1995, approximately 68,000 tons of wooden pallets and crates were thrown away in Minnesota. The way your company manages pallets has an impact on the bottom line.

2007-02-01 IFCO SYSTEMS presents the expanded IFCO Applicator at Fruit Logistica 2007
Use the IFCO Applicator to quickly and easily find the right IFCO Reusable Plastic Container

January 2007

2007-01-26 RFID: Geodis shares the investments and the profits

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2007-01-26 Fireplace smoke advisory issued (By E-R Staff)
Butte County pollution control officials issued an advisory at 1 p.m. Thursday that poor air quality is expected, and are asking residents to refrain from using woodstoves for the next 24 hours.

2007-01-26 Software automates robotic pallet building
Able to integrate with host processing/warehouse management systems, PicRite® Robotics includes modules that can control order batching and automated outbound palletization

2007-01-26 Power Pallet applies for Empire Zone status (By: Kathy Young)
Good news could be coming for one Mohawk Valley business seeking Empire Zone status.

2007-01-22 New range of pallet racking offers strength and stability
Bito the international storage systems manufacturer has announced the launch of a completely new range of pallet racking.

2007-01-22 HiLo PSS Partners NSI in new storage area for Hilti
When fit-out specialist Northern Storage & Interiors (NSI), won an order to supply a two-storey storage area for leading tool manufacturer and distributor Hilti (Gt. Britain) Ltd, the company knew it could rely on HiLo-PSS to provide it with a top of the range solution.

2007-01-22 New RPCC Leadership
Corporate executives and businesses within the retailer/user community will play a significant role in driving Coalition strategies and initiatives going forward, the Reusable Pallet & Container Coalition (RPCC, Washington, D.C.) announced today.

2007-01-22 Pallet pooler incorporates global RFID standard (By George Reynolds)
A plastic pallet provider has coupled an international product coding standard with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, allowing processors to better track their products thoughout the global supply chain.

2007-01-11 Robot palletises pizza cases
A 4-axis palletising robot with a vacuum suction gripper is palletising up to 320 cases/h at the end of a production line at a pizza base manufacturer

2007-01-11 IBM Helps Pliant Design and Implement RFID System to Track Shipments and Detect Tampering
Pliant Corporation and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Pliant has implemented an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) platform pilot program, designed by IBM consultants, to track shipments between the two technical centers and customer sites and detect tampering in its stretch-wrapping products

2007-01-11 iGPS Is First to Incorporate RFID Global Asset Tracking Codes On 100% of Its Fleet of Plastic Pallets
Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), operator of the world's first 100 percent RFID-tagged all-plastic pallet pool, announced that it is the first pallet pooling company to incorporate the EPC Global Reusable Asset Identifier (GRAI) on all of its pallets

2007-01-09 Labor Management Systems managing by the numbers (By James Aaron Cooke)
Though they work deep in the heart of Texas Rangers and Dallas Cowboys territory, workers won't find the latest game results on the giant scoreboard in the Container Store's Dallas-area DC.

2007-01-09 IFCO opens second KC-area plant (Kansas City Business Journal )
IFCO Systems N.A. Inc. has opened a reverse-logistics facility in the Kansas City area, its second area plant.

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