Pallets & Containers News

The global warehouse racking market is projected to grow by USD 2.14 billion from 2024 to 2028, driven by rising demand for retail space and e-commerce.

Companies are adopting advanced technologies like robotic arms and data analytics to improve the handling, storage, and fulfillment of oversized items.

The challenge of balancing efficiency, cost, and sustainability in e-commerce packaging often leads to oversized boxes filled with packing materials.

Container production reached a post-Covid peak of 521,000 TEU last month, which caught the market by surprise and led to shortages in equipment and vessels.

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.