Operators of a Florida food warehouse have found a way to make workers more accountable and significantly reduce operational costs at the same time. Like many distribution centers, Cheney Brothers uses radio-frequency scanners to track inventory in its Ocala warehouse from the moment it arrived to when it went out the door to be shipped … Read more
When an organic farm in northern California recently made the switch from wax-coated cardboard boxes to reusable plastic totes, the goal was to try to reduce its carbon footprint in order to help the environment. But the operators of Full Belly Farm ended up saving more than $14,000 per year in packaging costs. Now that’s … Read more
A Pennsylvania company has created a faster, easier and more reliable way to print labels directly onto packages automatically to help companies better service their e-commerce customers. FOX IV Technologies, based in Export, Pennsylvania, recently introduced its new TwinPrint and Apply label printer and applicator that takes the manual labor out of labeling packages and … Read more
“Winter is coming,” the characters of “Game of Thrones” are fond of saying. So now’s the time to make preparations to protect your business’s decorative planters and pots from freezing temperatures and heavy snows. Replacing pots and planters can be expensive. So it’s cost-effective to take a few simple steps now so that they will … Read more
If you have recently bought any type of consumer electronics, easy-to-assemble furniture, or even a tray of drinks from your local fast food restaurant, you may have noticed something different about the packaging. Many manufacturers are moving away from the traditional molded polystyrene foam and turning to molded pulp package to keep their products safe … Read more
Driving a full-sized panel truck into crowded urban areas such as the Chicago Loop, the St. Louis Flats, or midtown Manhattan is just asking for trouble. Not only can heavy traffic cause it to take nearly an hour to travel just a few blocks but once you arrive at your destination there’s usually no place … Read more
Drive through Chicago, St. Louis or any other major urban area during a weekday morning and evening and you can see first-hand what increased road congestion looks like. It’s a real problem and now the US Department of Transportation says it is costing US businesses real money. How much money? According to the National Freight … Read more
(Editor’s Note: In today’s Thursday Feature, we are going to look at a new delivery service being launched by online retail giant Amazon that could change the way you get your packages delivered.) Hoping to replicate the success of the passenger service app Uber, Amazon this month launched a similar service that delivers packages rather … Read more
After months of partisan squabbling and legislative gridlock, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has finally passed a compromise bill that would extend funding for another six years. The timing of the passage of the committee’s $325 billion Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 is significant. The bill passed out of committee … Read more
You might think that mop buckets haven’t changed much in the past 50 or 100 years and, for the most part, you would be right. They still work pretty much the same: A reservoir of water and mechanical wringer to remove excess liquid from the mop head. But there have been some small, subtle changes … Read more
