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Auto Parts Packaging Automation

Logistics Business Magazine

An automated packaging system has the versatility to deal with fragile and heavy automotive parts of many shapes and sizes, reports Paul Hamblin. Automated packaging. It was also important for us to optimize visual presentation of the delivered packages to our customers and to reduce physical strain on our employees.”.

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Packaging firm accelerates sustainable model

Logistics Business Magazine

Southgate , one of Europe’s leading packaging suppliers, has revealed its focus for 2021 and beyond will be to develop and promote the idea of a circular economy – inspiring businesses on an international scale to embrace the global solution to eliminating waste. However, a study from 2018 showed that only 53.9%

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Case Study: Reusable Box for Magazines and Newspapers

Logistics Business Magazine

AMP, Belgium’s largest media distributor, was looking for an efficient and reusable packaging solution for the distribution of magazines and newspapers. The boxes last up to 15 years, reducing tonnes of one-way packaging waste, and can be reground into new boxes after their useful long lives. The Challenge.

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Fulfilment Case Study: Barcode Tech Boosts Auto Handling of Personalised Mail

Logistics Business Magazine

In this case study fulfilment specialist Mail Handling International (MHI) says that Datalogic barcode scanning technology has enabled it to dramatically enhance speed and accuracy for the automatic enclosure of personalised letters from its Bristol based mail fulfilment centre. items per second.

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Wooden pallet industry sets sustainability goals

Logistics Business Magazine

European manufacturers of wooden pallets and packaging are working towards setting targets for their use of sustainable , certified timber within the next few months, according to the European Federation of Wooden Pallet & Packaging Manufacturers ( FEFPEB ). He added that the next step would be to set concrete European targets.

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Strautmann AutoLoad Baler Aims to Optimize Waste Disposal

Logistics Business Magazine

The disposal of outer packaging and cardboard packaging is one of the tasks in companies to which little attention is paid. Around 50 tons of cardboard packaging are produced each year. Cardboard packaging was brought to the press container by employees of a foreign company. Priority is given to the core business.

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Verallia enhances sustainability with Metrocargo

Logistics Business Magazine

Verallia , a European leader and the world’s third-largest producer of glass packaging for beverages and food products with 32 glass plants in 11 countries, has successfully concluded the tests to manage, through intermodality, inbound and outbound logistics between Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto in Italy.