Reuse on Replay: Straight Talk with Circular Thinkers Reusable Packaging Association

RPA's Executive Vice President Member Programs, Todd Hoff is joined by Rehrig Pacific's Director of Sales, Supply Chain, Eric Chambers to discuss what considerations a retailer or ecommerce company should have when implementing reusable assets across their supply chain and transportation and logistics network ecosystem. 

This episode follows part 1 in our recently published blog series - Technology-enabling Reusable Transportation Packaging. Joining RPA's EVP of Member Programs, Todd Hoff is Marty Mares, VP of Branding and Development at Polyfuze Graphics Corporation and Robert Leibrandt, Vice President at Trace It, LLC. Todd, Marty, and Rob take a look at Product Marking & Identification Technologies, where internal and external drivers guide choices for reusable assets. 

Most cargo moves on a pallet, and most shippers use single-use plastic stretch wrap to secure stacked items during transit and storage.  In this podcast episode, Rob Cohen from Display Supply & Lighting joins RPA’s Tim Debus in a conversation about unit load security and the opportunity to use the reusable LogiStrap – a time-tested VELCRO® product innovation – for a more sustainable, cost-efficient, and worker-friendly way to fasten unit loads for their safe handling and movement.

Rob Franzo, Committee Chair of the RPA Technology Working Group and Consultant for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., sits down with Todd Hoff, Executive VP of Member Programs for RPA, to discuss the recent update to the Smarter, Technology-Driven Supply Chain with Reusable Packaging Systems white paper (previously published in 2019), given the considerable acceleration in developing and adopting technologies aimed at automatic identification, monitoring, and tracking of Reusable Transport Packaging (RTP) assets throughout the supply chain. 

Panel moderator Ben Stoller, CEO of Paxxal, is joined by industry experts Kevin Mazula, CEO of RM2; Shawn Stockman, VP of Sustainability for Onepak; and David Kruger, President of TriEnda, in a discussion about the investment climate for sustainable companies with reusable packaging systems. 

John DiPalo, Chief Strategy Officer at ACSIS, Inc. joins Tim Debus to introduce the company's cloud platform which offers end-to-end asset and inventory traceability across supply chains. They discuss the benefits and hidden value that can be realized by enlightening business operations