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2011 PACK EXPO LAS VEGAS 8 September 26, 2011 SHOW DAILY Industry leaders share their successes and some of the challenges of implementing reusable packaging systems at RPA conference sessions. Going Green hirardelli Chocolate Company, Coca Cola, the Alpha Baking Company and leading providers container ownership. In this session we will explore this question and help companies determine which option is right for them.” Second Session RPA’s second session, Managing and Protecting Your Reusable Packaging As-sets, will take place on Tuesday. Part A, beginning at 10 a.m., is designed to help available from the RPA to help end users find reusable solutions to meet their specific transport packaging needs. This will be followed by a pres-entation and panel discussion of how to implement a reusable solution, in-cluding how to align the resources and key personnel critical to building a suc-cessful reusable solution. Vellay Kan-nappen, director of supply chain planning for Ghirardelli, will give his presentation at this session. During Part B, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the focus will be on better understanding the financial structure and decisions which must be made at this important second phase of imple-menting a successful reusable packag-ing strategy. Coca Cola will share its insights about cost considerations that factored into their decision-making process when implementing a reusable packaging system. Other presenters at this session include Bob Klimko, direc-tor of marketing & sustainability, ORBIS Corporation; Drew Merrill, Container and Pooling Solutions (CAPS); and Andy DeWitt, TOSCA. “Stakeholder alignment is a crucial component of implementing a success-ful reusable packaging solution in today’s supply chain, but we really don’t talk enough about this impor-tant step,” says Klimko. “In this session we will delve into the challenges of in-tegrating reusable throughout the company’s business operations.” Merrill adds, “Every company wants to know and understand the cost of im-plementing a change in their packaging operations. Once the right type of con-tainer is selected and the costs of the containers are known, companies need to make a ‘make or buy’ decision for end users of reusable packaging better understand the issue of product loss and develop systematic approaches to better manage their valuable reusable resources. From a simple paper and pencil accounting system to complex RFID solutions, managing a company’s reusable assets is an important part of the supply chain process. Presenters in-clude Keith Schall of CAPS. “In any asset management program, a company must first understand whether controls are in place to identify true asset loss rate and the general in-dustry guidelines for loss,” says Schall, CAPS. “In this session we will provide an overview of available asset manage-ment systems. We’ll look at simple paper-and-pencil methodology to com-plex high-tech tracking systems, and fi-nally look at how to develop the processes necessary to create actionable and enforceable data to ensure compli-ance throughout the company.” During Part B, from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m., Pat Kennedy, president of the Kennedy Group, will take participants on a video tour of the Alpha Baking to explore the company’s lessons learned from implementing an RFID tracking system to manage their reusable assets. Also at PACK EXPO, the RPA is hosting a comprehensive Reusable Packaging Pavilion that will showcase products and services for reusable packaging from 23 industry leaders, as well as membership information at Booth S-6063. In addition, the RPA is hosting its annual Networking Recep-tion for members and their invited guests. The RPA activities at PACK EXPO are sponsored by CHEP, IFCO Systems, iGPS, Brüel, Buckhorn and Schoeller Arca Systems, Inc. SD G 660 tons of corrugated waste and saved 65,000 corrugated cases. Coca Cola will share its insights about the cost consider-ations that factored into their decision-making process when implementing a reusable packaging system. Alpha Baking will take participants on a video tour of their operation and explore some of the lessons learned from implementing an RFID tracking system to manage their reusable assets. Presenters from RPA member companies include Container and Pooling Solutions, Tosca Ltd, The Kennedy Group and ORBIS Corporation. of services and products for reusable packaging will share the successes and challenges of implementing reusable packaging systems at PACK EXPO. The speakers are participating in the Reusable Packaging Association’s (RPA) two conference sessions as part of the Sustainability Track of the Conference at the show. The educational sessions are designed to help attendees address the issues facing users and potential users of reusable packaging. The key topics that will be addressed at the sessions include stakeholder align-ment, the cost of implementing a change in packaging operations and asset man-agement. Ghirardelli will discuss how switching to reusable packaging im-proved the quality of their product by re-ducing crushing, enabling them to reduce First Session RPA’s first session, Reusables 102— Implementing a Sustainable Reusable Transport Packaging System, will take place today. During Part A of the ses-sion, from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m., atten-dees will be introduced to the reusable packaging curriculum and resources C Colordyne Partners with Memjet olordyne Technologies (CDT) (Scottsdale, Ariz.; Booth S-5856) recently announced its ond. This one-of-a-kind technology from Memjet allows the CDT-1600 PC to print in four-color (cyan, yellow, ma-genta, black) and optional spot color at 1600 x 1200 dpi resolution. The CDT-1600 PC is the first commercially available production-class solution powered by Memjet. Colordyne’s Production Class printing system is designed for manu-facturing floors and distribution cen-ters, allowing customers to print what they want, when they want it. With a compact system footprint, the CDT-1600 PC requires minimal user inter-vention, on-site maintenance and no expensive power systems. SD partnership with Memjet (San Diego, Calif.; Booth S-5415) and unveiled its CDT-1600 line of high-speed Produc-tion Class and Bench Top printers, powered by Memjet technologies. The CDT-1600 PC (Production Class) printer performs continuous web printing on pressure-sensitive la-bels, narrow web packaging, retail tags, professional documents and pre-die cut labels at 32 in. per second (160 feet per minute). Its five printheads con-tain more than 350,000 nozzles that release 3.5 billion drops of ink per sec-
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