“We have 70 years experience on the leadership team,” Otting said. The leadership team is experienced and tenured, and we have a tremendous amount of tenure operating our plants. We have the same infrastructure, and same transportation network. Our offering is well established. We are simply putting a fresh face on it, and now we are ready to run.”
And as another positive, the cash generated by the business will no longer be diverted to support previous non-core activities such as RPC or pallet rental. Now, the company is totally centered on offering value to its customers. “Over the course of the last 15 years our purpose has been for the greater good of other entities,” Otting said.
“This is the first time in many years we are able to get back to our roots to operate as a standalone recycler with our own purpose,” Otting added, “of offering creative and unique cost efficient pallet management programs for the retailer and the manufacturer, operating without the constraints of the large global corporate.”
48forty will continue to focus on end-to-end solutions, from pallet supply and retrieval to on-site retail services to custom sized pallets, growing its business by making pallet management as simple as possible.
EcoVadis: LPR is recognized once again for its commitment to CSR
For the third year running, the European pallet-pooling specialist LPR-La Palette Rouge (a division of Euro Pool Group), has been rated “Gold” by EcoVadis for its Corporate Social Responsibility policy. With a score of 71/100, a 4 point improvement on 2016, LPR is once again in the top 1% of the companies assessed.
As a major player in the supply chain, LPR is fully aware of the importance of its contribution to “responsibility” and continues to pursue the goal of social responsibility across the whole range of its activities, including with respect to its employees.
With this in mind, and with its customers’ interests and satisfaction at the heart of the objective, in 2018 the pallet-pooling specialist will offer its partners the opportunity to partially offset their environmental impact by planting trees, whilst helping them calculate saved CO2.
LPR aims to pursue all of these objectives and reduce its own carbon footprint by 20% by 2025.
LPR has long sought to provide a service involving optimized, multi-modal transport systems and transport loops for its customers, reducing “empty kilometers”, and service centers located close to distribution hubs.
With this in mind, and with its customers’ interests and satisfaction at the heart of the objective, in 2018 the pallet-pooling specialist will offer its partners the opportunity to partially offset their environmental impact by planting trees, whilst helping them calculate saved CO2.
LPR aims to pursue all of these objectives and reduce its own carbon footprint by 20% by 2025.
CHEP Recognized as Green Provider by Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Supply & Demand Chain Executive (S&DCE) magazine congratulates CHEP Pallecon Solutions and CHEP Automotive & Industrial Solutions on being named to their 2017 Green Providers list. The annual award recognizes companies whose products, services or exemplary environmental stewardship are promoting sustainability within supply chains while making a positive impact on the environment as well as their bottom line.
This recognition follows a recent announcement that Brambles, the leading supply-chain logistics company operating through the CHEP and IFCO brands, was ranked as the top performing company by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) in the global Commercial Services and Supplies industry category for 2017.Brambles’ approach to sustainability has helped establish the company as a leader in this area, with recognition from publications like S&DCE speaking to their continued efforts to reduce carbon emissions, water usage and waste sent to landfills.
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