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Spotlight Startup: Cart.com is Reimagining Logistics
Starting a company is hard work. We sat down with Cart.com co-founder Remingtom Tonar to discuss his company's early success, growing pains, and more.
Tompkins Robotics Unveils PickPallet
Tompkins Robotics launched PickPallet, streamlining warehouse operations with precision pallet movement and advanced navigation for increased efficiency.
Veterans Day Patriotic Pallet Project - Honoring the Service & Sacrifice of Our Military Veterans
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.
Interlake Mecalux’s Pallet Shuttle
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...

Pallets & Containers Resources

Overcome Manual Depalletizing Challenges Without Sacrificing Productivity
How Automation Is Tackling One of the Toughest Distribution Center (DC) Jobs
How “Smart Bins” are Improving Industrial Supply Chains
Supply chains operations have become more modern and advanced, however most facilities' bin systems has yet to evolve.


Pallets & Containers News

Utah Brewers Cooperative Improves Efficiency with Floor Level Palletizer
Utah Brewers Cooperative improves efficiency with Columbia Machine's Floor Level Integrated Palletizer

McDougall & Sons Streamlines Operations with Columbia’s Load Transfer Station
“The machine is worth its weight in gold.” Says Dave Whaley, Assistant Supervisor, from McDougall & Sons. What machine? You might be asking yourself. It is Columbia Machine’s Load Transfer Station.

20 years of Efficiency with Columbia Machine’s Palletizers
Columbia Machine's palletizers have helped Hood River Distillers run a cost efficient and reliable operation

Sharpie Increases their Shipping Accuracy to nearly 100% using FORTE’s Automation Director™ WCS
FORTE retrofitted and expanded the one-year-old sortation system with two new sorters serving a total of 100 lanes. The increase in lanes and decrease in pallet positions per lane eliminated manual RF scanning.

Kelly-Moore Paint Company & Intelligrated’s Alvey Robotic Palletizers Case Study
With issues surrounding worker comfort and production efficiency, plant managers at Kelly-Moore’s San Carlos, Calif. facility turned to Intelligrated to develop a robotic palletizing solution. See their outcome that resulted in decreased changeover time and 76% ROI in the first year.

Intelligrated’s Alvey Robotic Palletizers Achieve a 76% ROI for Kelly-Moore Paint Company
Intelligrated Kelly-Moore Paint Company Case Study - Alvey Robotic Palletizers help the 5th largest paint company in the US yield big dividends with a 76% return on investment in the first year.

Intelligrated’s Alvey Robotics Lab
The Alvey Robotics Lab, a 5,000-square-foot research and development lab located at our St. Louis, MO facility, focuses on concepting and applying new robotic innovations, as well as offering customers access to equipment testing and demonstrations prior to installation.

Rehrig Pacific’s EZ Pal One-Touch Delivery System
Rehrig Pacific's EZ Pal One-Touch Delivery System offers measurable DSD productivity benefits and impressive financial savings over the traditional side-bay trailer and hand truck delivery method.

Rehrig Pacific - EZ Pal One-Touch Delivery System
The Rehrig Pacific EZ Pal One-Touch Delivery System offers measurable DSD productivity benefits and impressive financial savings over the traditional side-bay trailer and hand truck delivery method.

The Winner of the Oldest Operating Palletizer Contest
We set out to find the oldest operating Columbia palletizer in the world -- and we found it, in Mt. Olive, NC at Mt. Olive Pickle Co.. Please enjoy the short interview and brief footage of this 30+ year old machine operating!

System logistics directPick™ lights up Elizabeth Arden with over 13,000 pick faces
Elizabeth Arden selected System Logistics to provide a pick to light system for the expanded distribution center. With over 13,000 DirectPick™ pick faces, they are now able to meet the increased demand at the facility.

System Logistics Full Case Order Picking Systems
Our full case order picking systems apply varying levels of warehouse automation based on the requirements of the application. Optimizing your picking processes, these solutions minimize your labor requirements, reduce the amount of floor space required for storage, improve ergonomics and eliminate errors, all while increasing the productivity and efficiency of your operation.

Brent McClendon, the new president and CEO of the National Wooden Pallet & Container Association
Meet Brent McClendon, the new president and CEO of the National Wooden Pallet & Container Association (NWPCA). He takes the helm at a time of transition in the industry.


Featured Companies

MMCI Automation
MMCI Automation is a material handling systems integrator that has been providing solutions since 1983.  As an industry leader, MMCI uses its extensive experience with automating and integrating upstream and downstream equipment and its expertise in engineering, controls, and WMS…
Ridg-U-Rak
Ridg-U-Rak is one of the largest pallet rack storage manufacturers in North America, producing more than 100 million pounds of pallet rack, high density storage rack and specialized rack systems annually. A customer-centric, full-service pallet rack producer with over 400,000 square feet…
Columbia Machine
For over 50 years, Columbia has concentrated on serving these major industries with palletizing solutions: food, beverage, dairy, pharmaceutical, personal hygiene, building products, paper, and chemical. Today, our client list includes many prestigious Fortune 200 companies who palletize everything from paper towels…
Landoll Corporation
Landoll’s goal is to provide the best solution for your material handling needs. Bendi articulating and Drexel SwingMast® Narrow Aisle and Very Narrow Aisle forklifts can provide that solution through increased utilization of space, improved productivity, greater flexibility and…
Exporta Global
We hold stocks that create solutions for storing, moving and securing your products. All stocks are available on a next day delivery, so you know you can rely on us to get it to you fast.  These products include…
Integrated Systems Design
ISD - Integrated Systems Design expertise ranges from handling and picking pieces (eaches), cases, pallets, build lines, and special or custom handling solutions. Products and services include: automatic storage and retrieval (ASRS), conveyor, robotics, batch stations, automatic inserters and printers,…
Interroll
Interroll is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of key products for unit load handling systems, internal logistics and automation. These solutions are used primarily within the area of food processing, airport logistics, postal services, distribution and in various…
Cherry’s Industrial Equipment
Our passion is to create lasting solutions to the problems of the pallet industry: repetitive motion injuries, back strain, fatigue, and other incidents resulting in harm to employees, expensive workmen’s compensation claims, and lost hours. The success of our…
Ferretto Group
Ferretto Group is a leading European company that designs and manufacture in Italy an array of Material Handling and Storage solutions. With a proven history of innovation and service excellence for more than 50 years, Ferretto Group exports its solutions to…
MDI
MDI is a leader in manufacturing corrugated standard and custom plastic packaging solutions, production assembly, and environmental services. As a non-profit through a Social Enterprise model, MDI creates self-sufficiency by providing meaningful work in an inclusive environment, with nearly half…
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