February 10, 2014 Sophie Langley Retail food sales and manufacturing growth strengthening in Australia Year-on-year growth in retail food sales is at its strongest since early 2010, according to a report from food manufacturing industry ...
Tags: Manufacturing Growth, Food Sales, CHEP, AFGC
The 12th edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index shows year-on-year growth in retail sales at its strongest since early 2010. The index was 4.2 per cent higher in December 2013 compared with December 2012, up from an increase of 1.9 per ...
Tags: AFGC, ABS, retail environment, retailer
CAPS has announced that its intermediate bulk container management business is being rebranded as CHEP Pallecon Solutions. The team at CHEP Pallecon Solutions has been a leading container management partner in North America for more than ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Service
The 11th edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index suggests that retailers may be in for a challenging trading period this Christmas, with year-on-year growth in retail sales slowing and a turn-around not expected in the remaining months of ...
Tags: Service, Retailers Transport, logistics
CHEP Australia has launched a new state-of-the-art centrifugal dryer technology it says will deliver fresh produce crates that are 80 per cent drier than those processed through tunnel dryers. Installed at the company's Scoresby service ...
Tags: Drying System, Packaging, Printing, centrifugal dryer
CHEP Australia has launched new technology for the fresh produce industry that is said to deliver an 80 per cent dryer crate, wit the claim that it makes the reusable plastic crates the driest on the market. The state-of-the-art ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, dryer
ALDI Queensland managing director Viktor Jakupec and CHEP Australia and New Zealand president Phillip Austin have jointly launched a new-generation reusable plastic crate, 'Gen 3' for the fresh produce industry at ALDI's Salisbury store in ...
Tags: Chain Transport, Service
A new research study, conducted by RMIT University’s Centre for Design and commissioned by CHEP Australia, has highlighted the role of packaging in cutting down food waste. The study titled 'The role of packaging in minimising food ...
Tags: Packaging, Food Waste
New research shows packaging has a vital role to play within the supply chain in minimising food waste. Conducted by RMITUniversity’s Centre for Design and commissioned by CHEP Australia, the study shows where – and why ...
Tags: Packaging, Food Waste
A new Australian study has attempted to quantify the role of packaging as a major contributor to tackling food security issues in coming decades. Commissioned by logistics company CHEP and conducted by RMIT University's Centre for Design, ...
The plastic pallet market has traditionally been an owned asset market, not a pooled market. While CHEP and Peco created pools for the 48 x 40 inch wooden pallet favored by the grocery, consumer packaged goods and retail industries, plastic ...
Linkx Systems has provided Müller Dairy with a new compact pallet wrapper for its repack hall at its Market Drayton site The machine, a Siat by Linkx SW2L, has been customised for the company, which supplies chilled yogurts and ...
Tags: pallet wrapper, Linkx Systems, Packaging
A timely switch back to plastic crates has helped Brisbane-based produce supplier Favco reduce spoilage in its shipments of citrus fruits after a brief flirtation with using cardboard boxes. Favco was established in July 1999 as a joint ...
CHEP Australia has unveiled a new retail beverage tray, which has been designed to carry all variations of 1.25l, 1.5l, 2.0L and 2.25l soft drink bottles. The new beverage tray is said to complement the multi-purpose tray introduced in ...
Tags: retail beverage tray, soft drink bottles, timber pallet
Wooden pallets are more of a local than national sale when compared to plastic pallets. That’s because its cost prohibitive to ship a load of pallets more than a couple of hundred miles from the plant to the customer. As a result, ...
Tags: Wooden pallets, Pallets, pallet services