Our new, e-commerce enabled website has been up and running for almost a month now and we continue to make modifications to improve the visitor experience. Today, we launched a new PDF Library section on our website. The goal of this portion of our site is to create a central repository for all of our downloadable PDF documents. Although we make use of a tab for “Related Documents” where we house PDF’s that are specific to each product, we felt it was important to round up all of our PDF’s on one easy to find page. Read more…
Buy Export Pallets Online: Litco International Announces Launch of New E-Commerce Website
April 2nd, 2013After months of development, Litco has officially launched a new website to facilitate the online purchase of export pallets, core plugs, inflatable dunnage, void fill, anti-friction mats, desiccants, and our innovative LITKIT® Universal Washing Machine Shipping Stabilization Kit online. Although the new website does cater to the needs of buyers looking to purchase small and LTL quantities online, we also incorporated new response mechanisms that allow buyers to request RFQ’s for bulk and truckload quantities as well. The new website also demonstrates our commitment to assist purchasing agents and logistics professionals as they research potential solutions to their domestic and international shipping needs. Read more…
Best Pallet™ and Best Load™ Software Tools Improve Supply Chain Efficiencies
January 31st, 2013
Dr. Mark White
Until now, packaging professionals, pallet users, and pallet suppliers had few tools to rely on to optimize pallets for cost efficiency. But with last year’s release of Best Pallet™, a stringer pallet design and analysis software program, optimizing the supply chain is now within reach. Conceived by Dr. Mark White, professor emeritus at Virginia Tech’s Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design, this new software helps logistics professionals better control costs and efficiencies associated with optimal pallet design. The program is a simplified, streamlined version of the industry standard Pallet Design System (PDS).
According to Dr. White, “Optimizing pallet design requires detailed knowledge of the demands of each unique system from production line through distribution, storage, and retail display. Best Pallet™ gives packaging professionals, buyers, end users and pallet manufacturers the ability to participate in the optimization process.” Read more…
Effective Unitized Loads: Connections Between Packaging, Pallets, and Material Handling Equipment
January 20th, 2013An archived Pallet Enterprise article provides an excellent case study demonstrating the relationship between packaging, pallets and material handling equipment.
Boxed bottles of antifreeze were stored on pallets in overhead racks. After several months of storage, facility managers found themselves cleaning up leaking antifreeze that had covered the warehouse floor. The boxes could have supported the antifreeze on certain pallets and the pallets could have performed properly on certain racks, but together, the result was an expensive mess. Should the box manufacturer bear the costs of the cleanup, or was the pallet supplier at fault? The Virginia Tech Center for Unit Load Design was consulted to develop a unit load design for future shipments to the facility. Read more…
How the Core Crisis Presents New Opportunities for Pallet Manufacturers
January 15th, 2013Chaille Brindley’s recent article in Pallet Enterprise suggests the core shortage witnessed over the last two years is becoming the new norm, prompting recyclers to find new ways to meet customer demand. Although one might think the core crisis is strictly the domain of recyclers and their customers, the scarcity of cores is having a ripple effect on the entire pallet manufacturing landscape.
The collapse of the U.S. economy in the fall of 2008 actually led to a short term abundance of cores that continued well into 2010. Read more…
