Pallets & Containers

In this week's Startup Spotlight, we profile Bluicity, a company digitalizing logistics to ensure quality and reduce waste in supply chains.

Starting a company is hard work. We sat down with Cart.com co-founder Remington Tonar to discuss his company's early success, growing pains, and more.

Tompkins Robotics launched PickPallet, streamlining warehouse operations with precision pallet movement and advanced navigation for increased efficiency.

Protect against volatile wood prices with reusable plastic pallets.

Implementing plastic pallets into your supply chain can prove highly beneficial, including reducing costs, enhancing safety in the workplace, and support modern supply chain improvements like automation.

The last two years have been turbulent for supply chains across Europe. Firstly, the COVID-19 pandemic closed borders and restricted movement across the continent. While supply chains have started to bounce back, there is now a new challenge impacting the transportation of goods – the reliable supply of wooden pallets.

Prominent supply chain companies are discovering plastic pallets to be a superior economical and robust alternative to traditional wood pallets.

Carolina Handling set the record for creating the world’s largest pallet painting on October 10 in Greenville, South Carolina when it completed a 26,235-square-foot portrait of Lady Liberty.

The Pallet Shuttle is a high-density storage system where a shuttle, powered by an electric motor, runs along rails inside a storage channel. By replacing forklifts, this radio shuttle solution considerably reduces operating times and enables SKUs to be grouped by channels rather than by entire lanes.

Bob Klimko, Director of Market Development at ORBIS, joins Michael Levans, Group Editorial Director of Peerless Media’s Supply Chain Group in a discussion on the key steps necessary to convert your operation to reusable packaging.

On this episode, Millwood’s Doug Gaier discusses why pallets are in short supply. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

At the rate SKUs are expanding, constantly programming new patterns is neither practical nor cost-effective. As a result, depalletizing remains a manual operation in most DCs.

Exporta Global, a UK based product handling solutions company, has just successfully achieved a Guinness World Record by toppling 1,377 plastic pallets – dominoes style.

Supply chains operations have become more modern and advanced, however most facilities' bin systems has yet to evolve.

Virtually every business needs to find ways to control costs, streamline processes and leverage user data to measure and elevate performance across multiple KPIs.

RM2 has developed a composite pallet that resolves many of the issues the material handling industry faces related to traditional wooden pallets.

The pallet offers significant benefits to users over the existing polymer and wooden pallets currently available. The RM2 BLOCKPal™ pallet has a high strength to weight ratio and offers very good levels of impact strength for long service life.

Columbia's product line includes high speed, high level, floor level, robotic and hybrid palletizers, load transfer stations and complete systems integration.

Consumer packaged goods company Barcel USA needed an efficient integrated palletizing system to keep up with their growth.

Utah Brewers Cooperative, a small regional brewery that produces 25 different ales and lagers, realized in November 2010 that it needed a less labor-intensive way to palletize outgoing product. After installing a floor-level palletizer, the company was able to reassign workers to more value-added areas while more than doubling throughput.