In 1996 CHEP set out to dramatically expand its pools of pallets, figuring on economies of scale.
The vast majority of pallets are simply traded back and forth among shippers until they break, never really owned by anyone.
The level that collapsed was stuffed with tons of pallets piled with cardboard boxes, crates of tissue-paper wrappings and other dense, heavy materials.
The level that collapsed was stuffed with tons of pallets piled with cardboard boxes, crates of tissue paper wrappings and other dense, heavy materials.
In addition, four Marine Sea Knight helicopters flew out of a U.S. Navy base in Atsugi near Tokyo with 18 pallets of clothing and two pallets of food to Yamada Radar Site, north of Sendai.
The Manning brothers helped load some of the pallets of baby formula and water.
The 22 January date was fixed because it was the last date available before the stadium takes delivery of the pallets of grass which form the pitch.
Three years ago it lost 15% of its pallets, last year only 2%.
Vegetables have been planted on top of wooden pallets so that they can be moved to new sites in the future.
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As reported by Paul Chesser of the National Legal and Policy Center, 2, 000 pallets of unsold solar panels were recently discovered in Colorado and have been labeled toxic for cadmium.
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Wal-Mart uses it to track pallets of diapers and toothpaste in some distribution centers and stores.
Workers hustled to maneuver pallets of the brown boxes around trucks from FedEx and Advanced Logistics.
Stack-outs, those pallets of merchandise set out on the floor in front of the main shelves, were banned.
All around the trucks, workers wheeled around pallets of the plain brown boxes, some using forklifts, others with hydraulic dollies.
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags used for tracking items like shipping containers and pallets of goods have been around for years.
CHEP, however, has built a worldwide pool of 240 million pallets, including 75 million in the U.S., that it rents out.
Wal-Mart Stores ( WMT) has been cutting staff since the recession and pallets of merchandise are piling up in its stockrooms as shelves go unfilled.
The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is to arrive in Haiti on Friday morning, carrying 19 helicopters and 30 pallets of relief goods, he said.
Labels apparently belonging to the company called Food Service near Warsaw were found on 12 pallets of frozen meat that ended up at Freeza Meats in Newry.
But the BBC's Nick Davis in Port-au-Prince says that the US military is now securing areas on the ground before pallets of food and water are parachuted in.
Distinctive white boxes labeled "iMac" and bearing the Apple logo were stacked 10 deep alongside 20 pallets of identical unmarked brown boxes roughly stacked 10 deep and four abreast.
That meant District Managers sitting in a cubicle all day long calling Parts Managers trying to get them to take everything from pallets of batteries to navigation units to accessory packages.
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It allows for the production of a very smooth whiskey that suits pallets looking for that kind of taste.
Robots were brought in to maximize space and allow for the quick loading and unloading of kegs and beer pallets.
Buy cheap land on city fringe, build cheap, superstore-size warehouses, stock dimly lit caverns with pallets full of products in bulk.
Every day tens of thousands of CHEP's pallets--painted blue to distinguish them from the generic pallets that are swapped between shippers--are returned to the center.
Industrial usage (for goods manufacturing out of wood as well as pallets and crating) has been weak in the past few months but is likely to show a mild rebound in 2013.
But two parachutes did not fully open, and pallets stacked with barrels of fuel slammed into the ground, lost or badly damaged "burned in, " as crews say.
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