Understanding Plastic Pallet Weight Capacity
Before you start loading up your pallets with weight, you’re going to need to understand plastic pallet weight capacity. How much weight can a pallet hold? It depends. If you’re used to working with wood pallets, you are probably used to pallet load capacity being a relatively simple affair, easily calculated according to the PDS, […]
6 Crucial Considerations for Purchasing Used Pallets
One of the great benefits of the right plastic pallets for your industrial storage and transportation needs is that they are reusable, but what about buying used plastic pallets to begin with? Is it worth it to buy recycled pallets or used pallets? What do you need to know when looking to buy used pallets? […]
How to Reduce Product Damage During Transportation
Damage prevention in logistics is a critical issue. If you are to be successful in your industry, you must be able to consistently get your goods from one end of the supply chain to the other in one piece on a consistent basis. Damaged products are a major cause of loss in warehousing, manufacturing and […]
Preventing Plastic Pallet Piracy
Many more suppliers and retailers of a variety of products, especially food and beverages, are learning the value of reusable packaging solutions like hygienic plastic pallets for their goods. Unfortunately, what they are also learning is that the prevalence of plastic pallet piracy is increasing. According to the Texas Retailers Association, plastic theft is responsible for […]
Important Considerations for Choosing RFID Pallets
RFID pallets are a state-of-the-art and highly efficient method for warehouse pallet tracking that can significantly streamline your logistics if implemented properly. RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, in the form of RFID plastic pallets, is a way to clearly identify your pallets and cargo and their location along the supply chain and expedite the transfer […]
Why Reusability Is Essential to Supply Chain Success
Traditionally, the drive to reduce waste in the supply chain has been focused on recycling. Plastic pallets and wood pallets can both be recycled, and wood and plastic pallet recycling is certainly effective at reducing waste, but is it as effective as reusing plastic pallets? Reusable packaging solutions are the wave of the future, and […]
3 Ways Consumers Are Transforming the Supply Chain
The days when customers walked into a store, looked at your product and then purchased or failed to purchase based on whether or not they liked what they saw are over. Today’s consumer has access to a staggering amount of information thanks to digital technology, which has radically transformed the way goods are supplied to […]
How Are Water Bottles Recycled?
By volume, bottled water recently surpassed carbonated soft drinks to become the most popular drink in America. Each year, the average American will use 167 plastic water bottles of varying sizes. What happens to those bottles after you consume the contents is up to you. Do they become waste, or are they recycled? As the […]
Unsafe Drinking Water: A Growing Problem in the United States
According to the United Nations, an estimated 783 million people around the world do not have regular access to clean water. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by statistics like this or to think of them as primarily developing world problems. However, as the ongoing Flint, Michigan crisis proves, America’s public water supplies are no less […]
Sell or Deliver? A New Look at Bottled Water Delivery
How do you see your water delivery business? Are you a company that sells water to customers, or are you a company that delivers water to customers? A similar question was posed to restaurateurs in 2010 in the United States, with the reappearance of food trucks in many urban cities. As a brief history, food […]