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LAST NEWS 
December
2005
22/12/05 TNT Steps Up China-Germany
RFID Trial
The Dutch logistics and shipping company is expanding an RFID trial that tags
and tracks
15/12/05 IFCO SYSTEMS Announces the Grand Opening of
Three New Pallet Services Facilities
New facilities are designed to meet
the growing needs of IFCO's local and national customers
15/12/05 Finland: A. Jalander develops RFID pallet
Finland's largest pallet manufacturer A. Jalander has developed a RFID pallet
15/12/05 Back to the future for Brambles
WHEN Brambles, um, lost $14 million of its pallets, painted an arresting blue,
apparently somewhere in Europe, the sharemarket was naturally horrified.
09/12/05 German retailer Rewe pushes suppliers toward RFID
Germany-based Rewe has joined the wave of retailers that are requiring all their suppliers to tag their products with RFID
(RFID) technology.
09/12/05 Regulations set stage for environmental action
Pallets and wood packaging
09/12/05 Recycler of pallets buys former lumber plant
About 30 jobs will be added at new business near Fortville
07/12/05 CAPE Systems Releases Version 2.05
Of Its Cape Pack Packaging Design and Pallet Mapping Software
05/12/05 Goodbye, seamen; hello, robots
Benedict Engineering Co. unveils prototype of cargo-handling system
05/12/05 Buyers emerge for parts of restructured Brambles
The company is also selling assets estimated to be worth more than £1bn
05/12/05 APPENDIX G. 463L PALLET.
The 463L cargo system includes the pallets, nets, MHE, and aircraft rail/roller
systems
01/12/05 New cargo pallet will save U.S. military $1.3 million
A large shipment of merchandise sits near a loading dock behind the U.S. Transportation Command here.
01/12/05 Plastic pallet packs more, by passes fumigation law
Rehrig Pacific's RPX 4840 Export Pallet is made from recycled plastic
01/12/05 Plastic pallet packs more, by passes fumigation law
Rehrig Pacific's RPX 4840 Export Pallet is made from recycled plastic
01/12/05 Brambles to Sell Cleanaway to Focus on CHEP
The company's shares surged 10 percent
November
2005
25/11/05 Diamant Art Corporation Enters BIO-DEGRADABLE Pallet Wrap Market
They have sent its oxo-biodegradable pallet wrap samples for testing to one of its U.S
25/11/05 100% recycled paperboard pallets
PACKSPEC is the agent and importer of Palion Paperboard Pallets.
24/11/05 LPR's Jane Gorick looks at the less high profile forms of shrinkage
Expectant retailers are crossing their fingers that consumers across Europe will continue to creep back into the shops
22/11/05 KUKA Robotics Selected by AIDCO International
To Provide Robots for Palletizing Logistics System
22/11/05 Packaging Software Improves Container Fill Features
New version of Quick Pallet Maker packaging software
18/11/05 Ten biggest RFID myths debunked
An honest look at the untold truths behind the promise of RFID technology.
17/11/05 Crews Battle Blaze At Smithfield Pallet Company
A fire damage at a Smithfield pallet company
17/11/05 Leathered up in an Irish Novemberfest
G8 meeting at the Brambles annual meeting
17/11/05 Heavy duty corrugated pallets
About regulations on the use of wooden pallets.
14/11/05 Brambles says Q1 sales, profits ahead
first-quarter sales and profits were well ahead of the same period last year
14/11/05 RPCC Leadership to Diversify Industry Initiatives
FIBRE King is currently manufacturing a large palletising system
14/11/05 Finland palletising project
FIBRE King is currently manufacturing a large palletising system
14/11/05 IFCO Systems Continues on Revenue and Profitability
Growth Path in Q3 2005
07/11/05 Pallet maker adopts world standard Gainesville firm upgrades plant
Gainesville firm upgrades plant
04/11/05 UPS Supply Chain Solutions to Deliver 700,000 Bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau to Japan
The shipments will enable Japanese wine lovers to enjoy a glass on Thursday
03/11/05 Medium business
Supply chain management
03/11/05 Reduce airfreight costs by eliminating pallets
THE OptiLedge transport system may soon replace costly wooden pallets
03/11/05 Sara Lee Food and Beverage Switches to CHEP
Financial and Environmental Benefits Cited as Reason for Move from One-Way Pallets
03/11/05 Airdex Seeks to License Wood Pallet Suppliers to Produce Its Foam Pallets
Airdex International has begun offering its patented manufacturing system to pallet suppliers
03/11/05 Firm to open pallet factory
Bermuda-based PVAXX announced the closing of a $25 million financing facility with Merrill Lynch.
03/11/05 Brambles director makes maiden purchase
Jacques Nasser splashed out £319,500 on 100,000 shares in Brambles.
October
2005
25/10/05 Brambles says Q1 profits, sales ahead of last year
financial year to end-September were well ahead of last year.
25/10/05 ISPM 15 : Egypt rejected entry of Israeli shipments
Since it came into force all WPM must be treated and certified according to ISPM 15 code
24/10/05 RFID: technology leaps as standards lag
CHEP has launched a breakthrough 3-in-1 tag that can be read through RFID reader
24/10/05 Plastic pallets save money
Plastic pallets are light and strong
24/10/05 $500,000 blaze is under investigation
A fire that burned through a quarter-acre of wooden pallets
20/10/05 Rotating cab: a world’s first from Jungheinrich
Jungheinrich AG was the first to launch an electric counterbalance forklift truck
20/10/05 Northampton Haulier Expands its Global Reach
JTA Pallet Distribution Ltd has appointed Albert Hollyoak as Director of Business Development.
20/10/05 Pallet Distribution Specialist Appoints Hollyoak As Director
Strategic buyout of Eurocontinental International Freight Forwarders.
20/10/05 PVAXX® will supply THE WORLDWIDE pallet market
The first manufacturing facility is being established in the Sultanate of Oman
18/10/05 Saving industry pallet hire charges
Precise Pallet Management Pty Ltd (PPM) - to assist businesses reduce costs
18/10/05 FAST OLIVE HIRED TO PURCHASE 130,000 TONS OF PLASTIC
Fast Olive to purchase 130,000 metric tons of polyethylene per month.
17/10/05 UA Says RFID Working For Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart shoppers are finding less out-of-stock items thanks to technology new to retailing
17/10/05 RedPrairie Participates in CHEP Innovation Center
Implementation RedPrairie Corp.'s DLx Warehouse software at is Orlando
17/10/05 Brambles ebbs despite praise
Shares in Brambles hit a two-month low yesterday
13/10/05 RFID: What Retailers Are Doing
Initiatives in play; here's a high-level guide
13/10/05 Newall Linear Encoders Keep Pallet Pooling Trend on Track
About Chep and pooling
13/10/05 Homegrown GPac injects S$25m to expand production
In order to expand production
11/10/05 Lumber-mill plan irks some
About the installation of the Pico Rivera lumber mill
07/10/05 Expected to Bringing Down the price of rfid by 95%
By Korean researchers
07/10/05 CHEP introduce 3-in-1 tag option
The new tag innovation demonstrates a number of key features
07/10/05 Doyle gets pallet promotion
Appointment of Peter Doyle as business development manager (pallets)
04/10/05 Price Cuts Seen Speeding RFID Adoption
ABI predicts
04/10/05 RedPrairie RFID Solution
CHEP implements RedPrairie Solution
03/10/05 Wood fire 'was hazard for years'
Raising the roof.
03/10/05 special project editor pharmaceuticals
Raising the roof.
03/10/05 special project editor containers
Just one word: plastic.
LAST NEWS September 2005
26/09/05 Homes near wood blaze evacuated
Fire crews have returned to the blaze every day since Sunday
26/09/05 Macquarie Keeps Outperform On Brambles
Macquarie keeps 12-month price target at A$10.01, vs BIL last at A$8.88
26/09/05 Employer blamed in worker's attack, death
American Pallet-Midwest on suing
26/09/05 Charges an option in construction site death
Death of an eight-year-old boy
26/09/05 Fire crew expect blaze to continue
Evacuation of homes near Swansea
26/09/05 Border Trade
Importers get extension on wood pallets
- 20/09/05 King-Air pallet dispenser
Two models are on offer - 12 pallet or 18 pallet.
- 20/09/05 We're in the pallet Premier League!
Dunstable workplace has key role in distribution chain
- 20/09/05 CHEP Sells USA Reusable Plastic Container Assets to GAIT Packaging Ltd
Effective October 15, 2005
- 19/09/05 lawsuit to stop use of pesticide in cargo from Asia
Pallets from Asia may contain these beetles or other pests
- 19/09/05 Pallet company catches fire
2,000 pallets were destroyed when a trash fire
- 19/09/05 Beetle fight extends to wood pallets
About the new rules of Ispm15
- 13/09/05 Neighbors Helping Neighbors in Jefferson Parish
After the hurricane in New Orleans
- 13/09/05 Automated palletising solution for the beverage industry
By AUTEFA Automation
- 09/09/05 CAPE Systems at Premier RFID Show
At The 2005 EPC Global U.S. Conference
- 09/09/05 Oh brother, where art thou?
About Brother International one of the largest suppliers in Australia of office printers
- 08/09/05 Back to base for Brambles executive
Brambles has brought home the Australian head of its Chep Europe division
- 06/09/05 Brambles Names Mezzanotte as Operations Head for CHEP
Mezzanotte, 50, is currently president of CHEP Americas
August
2005
29/08/05 Beetle invasion
Threatens on domestic forests, foreign trade
26/08/05 Brambles turnround in no doubt now the pallets are all stacked up
Profits and revenues were up and the outlook from the company was bullish about growth across all sectors.
26/08/05 Cause Of Fire At Pallet Company Unknown
Investigators said they don't know yet what started a fire at a Northern Kentucky plant.
25/08/05 American Pallet Leasing Names James F. Crigler President and CEO
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company
25/08/05 Brambles Industries Second-Half Net Income Rises
Brambles posted a 74 percent gain in second-half profit
25/08/05 Water resistant ‘hydro-cool’ carton for vegetables
AMCOR has launched a new hydro-cool carton
25/08/05 Reusable Pallets Face Density Hurdle
A survey of business practices in rural Vermont
25/08/05 Brambles Second-Half Net Income
Brambles posted a 74 percent gain in second-half profit
03/08/05 Utilisation of palets in aircraft
Aircraft improvements for marchandises transportation
03/08/05 A fire caused a big damage in Clinton
A late-night fire in Clinton caused $125,000 in damage to a warehouse
July
2005
28/07/05 Insect free CHEP service
CHEP has launched the PLUS PS (phytosanitary) pallet service to meet new global regulations
28/07/05 CrimStone Partners has acquired North Texas AAA Pallet Co
Transaction terms were not disclosed
25/07/05 Pallet trucks for harsh environments
Suitable for dock work, transportation, staging and order picking.
19/07/05 Asian beetles attacking area trees of Sacramento
Threatening the city of trees, state and federal agriculture officials.
11/07/05 Siemens roll out automated high-bay warehouse
Siemens are constructing the first fully automated high-bay warehouse in Saudi Arabia
11/07/05 Automatic pallet dispenser
By the society Renopak.
05/07/05 Cost Reduction in Retailing & Products using RFID
Consumers usually welcome price reduction.
05/07/05 New rule looms to shoo bugs out of pallets
The federal Department of Homeland Security has a new enemy -- wooden pallets that might carry tree-killing bugs.
01/07/05 Buckeye Diamond Logistics and CHEP Settle Dispute.
Agreement Reached to Work Together and Deliver Benefits to the Pallet Industry
June 2005
30/06/05 North Carolina To Ban Pallets From Landfills
North Carolina is poised to make it illegal to throw wooden pallets into landfills.
30/06/05 Scott Timber Expands in Europe
UK's largest pallet company, is planning massive expansion in Europe.
27/06/05 ‘Good prospects’ for local growth
There are good prospects for more jobs coming to the Lima area
27/06/05 Employees will be laid off after fire destroys U.S. Pallet building
They estimated the property sustained at least $300,000 damage
24/06/05 Nothing Illegal About Bonfire Pallets
24/06/05 Pallet firm confident
group Brambles Industries yesterday said it was expecting good progress in annual profits
23/06/05 Brambles paints bright pallet picture
Industrial services giant Brambles has promised investors continued improvement in its results.
21/06/05 Plastic Pallet Company Pulls Large Order
A plastic pallet company has placed a 536,000 beverage pallet order with one of its largest customers.
17/06/05 Rehrig Penn buys service operations of Penn Pallet
The acquisition involves asset recovery, pallet management and wood pallet resale activities
17/06/05 New pallet plant proposed near Belding
K&P Young Trucking and Pallet Building plans to construct a 9,000 square-foot plant
17/06/05 Apollo Health & Beauty Care with Chep
looks for supply chain integration with CHEP
17/06/05 New director for Pallet Distribution
JTA Pallet Distribution Ltd has appointed Albert Hollyoak as Director
17/06/05 Portray of Hilary Devey
Creator and owner of Pall-Ex.
16/06/05 Merrills Sees Several Positives In Brambles.
Merrill Lynch has reinstated coverage on Brambles with a Buy, Medium Risk rating and a target of $9.20.
14/06/05 DHL Plans RFID Tags For Every Package It Ships
The goal: gain tighter control of shipments, cut costs, and improve operating performance.
10/06/05 Pallet employees honored for safety record
Supervisory staff and production employees at County Box and Pallet were to be honored
10/06/05 Paramount Pallet Announces Completion of Purchase from IFCO Systems
Six (6) pallet services facilities located across Canada
9/06/05 Pall-ex partners with Nightspeed
Creation of a unique, "one stop shop" parcels,mail and pallet distribution service.
09/06/05 Fire in a pallet factory in East St Louis
09/06/05 Stretch tape wrapper welcomed in the US
Demonstration of 3M stretch and the Safetech semi-automatic stretch wrapper
03/06/05 Stock exchange news...
Back on Brambles
02/06/05 Timber in Southern California
Still Yielding Low-Grade Opportunities Drought, Insects, Fire Create Brief Window of Low-Grade Salvage Timber
02/06/05 Swedish Grocery Industry
Operates Cooperative Pallet And Container Pool
02/06/05 Quarantine Alert
AQIS quarantine requirements
02/06/05 Weyerhaeuser loses appeal in alder case
Firm raised price to kill off rivals
02/06/05 Resin Prices
Impact Material Handling
May
2005
30/05/05 Loscam's expansion good on the Asian pallet
Loscam is accelerating into the huge Asian market
27/05/05 Man Versus pest
Us battle against the Asian longhorned beetle
26/05/05 Beyond the Supply Chain
The Impact of RFID on Business Operations and IT Infrastructure
26/05/05 Haulier speaks out.
RHA conference in Spain
20/05/05 Accident on a building site in Spain.
A workman seriously injured
20/05/05 Audience of Valencia in Spain
A man died because of a pallet elevator
20/05/05 CHEP changes sourcing approach To Ensure Supply of High Quality pallets
Sponsors dedicated pallet manufacturing facility
19/05/05 Pallet Manufacturing and More Risk Classifications
Second Release of the 2005 Best's Underwriting Guide
19/05/05 RFID Case Study: METRO
METRO Group Future Store Initiative presents a combination of results
19/05/05 Industry Research
The annual consumption of material handling equipment systems in the United States has grown to $64 billion per year,
17/05/05 Greystone Logistics, Inc. Announces Renewal of Order with Long-Standing Customer
Order of 526,000 beverage pallets during the next twelve months
17/05/05 CSFB Keeps Brambles At Underperform
North American pallet recycler IFCO Systems reported 1Q results Friday.
17/05/05 Panel Urges Suppliers To Start Developing Their RFID Strategies
About the advantages of RFID
17/05/05 Supermarket boom sparks off flourish in storage biz
Modernisation of the Indian retail sector
16/05/05 RFID Modules Can be Embedded in Corrugated
A new UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) module from BeamFetch LLC can be embedded in corrugated cardboard
13/05/05 American Pallet Leasing Forms Banking Relationship with MidSouth Capital
APL is a vertically integrated manufacturer and logistical supplier of pallets
03/05/05 CHEP Expands Relationship with Manugistics
Global Implementation of Supply Chain Management Solutions
03/05/05 IFCO Systems Announces Grand Opening of Portland, Oregon Pallet Services Facilities
New facility brings pallet management and recycling services to the Rivergate Industrial Area
02/05/05 Much ado about mulch : Colorful selections available
Colored mulches are the fastest growing segment in the huge but unquantified mulch trade.
02/05/05 Muncie company helps save the trees
Smart Products builds equipment others use to dismantle and recycle pallets
02/05/05 Spanish retail achieves fresh fruit RFID traceability
Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona has installed RFID
Avril
2005
- 29/04/05 Stainless steel pallet safety gate
SEPAK Industries manufactures stainless steel pallet safety gates
for safe unloading of pallets near raised platform edges.
- 28/04/05 CHEP wins pallet handling charge challenge
Verdict from a court case in the UK for Chep.
- 26/04/05 Returnable is the Operative Word
About the problems about the installation of a pool of plastic pallets and containers.
- 25/04/05 Don't waste your profits - it's time to dispose of Brambles
The shares have climbed from 241p in December last year to 318½ earlier
this month.
- 25/04/05 DSL Packaging to make Schutz containers in Malaysia by 2006
DSL and Schutz signed in Germany yesterday a licensing agreement.
- 22/04/05 20 % of societies in the area of sales are interested in Rfid
Study conducted among 240 societies.
- 19/04/05 Sales online, exportation with internet
Commercial trade of Argentina has increased of 120 %.
- 19/04/05 Laboratory of rfid in Spain
ZLC and Sun announce this creation
- 19/04/05 RFID tag prices must fall fast for users to reap rewards, execs say
Generation 2 technology is due later this year, holds promise to lower costs
- 19/04/05 Damage from landfill fire estimated at $1 million
The fire started in a pile of pallets about the size of a football field...
- 19/04/05 Chep expanding distribution in DeSoto
Chep is opening a new facility in Southaven, leasing 200,000 square feet.
- 18/04/05 EU and CH : New wooden packaging prescriptions
Appliance of ISPM15 standard (concerned wood, treatment...)
- 14/04/05 The UK Pallet Network Market
Report which is a big study on uk pallet network.
- 08/04/05 Oman to get world's largest plant
for shipping pallets (from Ravindra Nath)
150 Millions pallets/year should be exported to the far east and other countries.
- 08/04/05 Use treated wooden pallets,
exporters told
Manufacturers and exporters should use treated wooden pallets to ship their
goods or risk having the goods rejected.
- 08/04/05 WITRON to Use RFID for Major Project
in Spain
Witron Logistik + Informatik GmbH Will Use RFID-tags Within the Dry, Fresh
and Frozen Goods Areas of the New Logistics Center Near Madrid.
- 08/04/05 All systems grow as network
boosts firm
Membership of one of Europe's fastest growing pallet freight systems has
been the spur for major growth at one Black Country business.
- 07/04/05 Pallet Load Leveler
A new hydraulic load leveler for use in the manual loading and unloading
of pallets has been introduced by Presto Lifts Inc.
- 01/04/05 Danone Canada joins CHEP program
to enhance supply chain productivity
The CHEP program enables Danone to improve its shipping platform controls while complying with its product quality requirements.
March
2005
- 31/03/05 Item-Level RFID Benefits
Massive leaps in productivity, less shrinkage, and fewer out-of-stocks make
case for next evolution of RFID.
- 31/03/05 CAPE Systems Named Smurfit-Stone's Single-Source Vendor for Palletizing Software
- 29/03/05 Public Packages to boost paper-based product sales
PUBLIC Packages Holdings Bhd (PPHB) is currently in negotiations with several
customers interested in buying its new product, a paper-based exhibition
display booth.
- 29/03/05 Plastics firm profits from wood concerns
Concerns around the world that wood packaging may introduce harmful bugs
are working in favour of Stokes Valley's Calvert Plastics.
- 24/03/05 Integral RFID Looks for RF Hot Spot
The systems integrator says its new software serves as a scientific tool
for tagging cases and building pallets.
- 24/03/05 Pallet quality cited as reason for Agropur move to CHEP
- 21/03/05 RFID progress at Wal-Mart
Dillman explained that Wal-Mart stores using RFID have received 23,753 tagged
pallets and 663,912 tagged cases and taken over 5 million tag reads
- 20/03/05 Jobs axed as high dollar hammers timber firm
A Bay sawn timber firm has laid off 14 staff after its main overseas customer
refused to pay higher prices caused by the strong New Zealand dollar.
- 18/03/05 Port completes property sale, IFCO
The Port of Portland has completed the sale of a 6.5-acre industrial site
and building at Terminal 4 to 528 Investors LLC , under assignment from
Phase One Equities Inc.
- 10/03/05 Microsoft Enters RFID (by Demir Barlas)
Microsoft has big plans for its applications business , and now those plans include radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
- 10/03/05 American Pallet Leasing Announces $15 Million Lumber Contract
- 08/03/05 RFID: Optimizing Label Placement Written by: Bert Moore
- 08/03/05 The Three Rs of RFID: Rewards,
Risk, and ROI
RFID holds promise for significant bottom-line benefits
- 02/03/05 UHF Gen 2 specifications promise to unify RFID deployments
The long-awaited Gen 2 chip samples have started shipping to radio-frequency
identification technology equipment makers for evaluation purposes.
-02/03/05 Kimberly-Clark Adds European Retailers To Its RFID Program
The consumer-goods company already ships RFID-tagged goods to Albertsons,
Target, and Wal-Mart. Now it's added Metro in Germany and Tesco in the United
Kingdom.
February
2005
- 25/02/05 The CAN (assocation of south american
countries), is asking the European Union to delay the application of new
norms on wood
packaging.
- 23/02/05 Cooperating to Compete: White Wood Pallet
Rental Service Near? Program for Pallet Companies to Compete in Grocery Rental
Market
January
2005
CHEP MARKS ADVANCES IN FOOD CONTAINER SAFETY
Facilities
The group announced a series of new developments in the company¹s effort
to
improve
equipment safety and sanitation.
November
2004
Brambles says pallet shambles is over
GERMANY: Metro begins using RFID in logistics
American Pallet Leasing Retains KCSA Worldwide As Investor Relations Counsel
September
2004
Brambles fails to be rewarded ?
Brambles reports annual results for the year ended 30 June 2004
PALLET firm receives tax help for upgrade
BRAMBLES loading up after big break
August
2004
Pallet Brambles 2nd-Half Net Doubles on Pallet Unit Overhaul
Pallet Phytosanitary Project Newsletter
July
2004
Fence
may not solve dispute over pallets
Chep's
chipper as competition calms down
$85M
pallet plant on the way
IBM
opens European RFID testing centre
RFID
Readiness in the Enterprise
June
2004
AUSTRALIA'S
Brambles restructures pallet business
Steel
pallets lighter than wooden pallets
General
PKP: EUR / EPAL Pallets
PALWEB
Orders New Injection Molding Machine and Plastic Pallet
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