Have you ever seen boxes that can be side accessed to insert and remove long parts? On your path to becoming a Cost Savings Superstar for your company, we invite you to view a popular closed loop box reuse, Wisconsin Plastics, Inc. case study. Using Box Latches on both ends of corrugate boxes for transporting and assembling long parts, WPI has improved its financial and environmental bottom lines. The same boxes have been collapsed and reused for more than 1.5 years, saving...
US-Based Retailer Employees Are Delighted June 2023 Box Latch™ Products, the USA’s largest inventor, patent holder and manufacturer of reusable corrugated box closure solutions has supplied two East Coast department store distribution centers with their innovative supply chain logistics devices. These 1 million sq ft centers receive clothing and household goods to store, repackage and ship to their hundreds of retail outlets around the country. Upon arrival at the DCs, tape on the boxes is cut to allow them to be opened for...
In February 2020 Daniel Smith from Packaging World contacted CEEO, Jim Wilson, out of the blue. He was interested in finding a case study that illustrated how corrugated boxes could be reused. Dan found us at boxlatch.com and was intrigued with what he saw there. Jim with Alicia at PackExpo East in Philadelphia One week Before COVID-19 Shut Everybody Down During the week before Covid-19 shut down nearly all the trade shows in the USA, Jim met with Alicia Pettigrew, Manager of Product Strategy...
Have you ever seen boxes that can be side accessed to insert and remove long parts? On your path to becoming a Cost Savings Superstar for your company, we invite you to view a popular closed loop box reuse, Wisconsin Plastics, Inc. case study. Using Box Latches on both ends of corrugate boxes for transporting and assembling long parts, WPI has improved its financial and environmental bottom lines. The same boxes have been collapsed and reused for more than 1.5 years, saving...
A November 17, 2021 Philadelphia Inquirer business news article today caught my eye and forced me to ask the question on which this blog is based. Collapsed Boxes Headed to Reuse Boxes Headed to Recycling or Landfill During the current challenges with supply chain backlogs, why aren’t businesses looking for better mousetraps to move toward Sustainable Supply Chains as suggested in this article in the Harvard Business Review. An even bigger question is, “Why are the Aussies beating the USA to the punch.”...
You’re all familiar with North Face, Lee, Wrangler, Timberland, JanSport, right? Mr. Steve Rendle, CEO of the multi-billion dollar VF Corporation, vfc.com, was a keynote speaker during a recent Ethical Corporation Business Sustainability Summit, reutersevents.com/events/rbs-usa. That’s where Jack and I had the pleasure of hearing and connecting with his message. Mr. Rendle talked about sustainability and the environment as key elements of each company’s unique “Purpose.” In keeping with the topic for this three-day event, he emphasized that each of these...
In February Daniel Smith from Packaging World contacted CEEO, Jim Wilson, out of the blue. He was interested in finding a case study that illustrated how corrugated boxes could be reused. Dan found us at boxlatch.com and was intrigued with what he saw there. Jim with Alicia at PackExpo East in Philadelphia One week Before COVID-19 Shut Everybody Down During the week before Covid-19 shut down nearly all the trade shows in the USA, Jim met with Alicia Pettigrew, Manager of Product Strategy at...
A prior blog reported how production manager, Tony DeVoy, at TYRI Americas in Stevens Point, WI made use of our Box Latches™. They found the latches were so useful that as soon as our Corner Clip & Stacks were invented, they put them to use, too. This report illustrates how TYRI’s systematic lean manufacturing makeover employed our clips helped reduce labor costs while growing production, reducing human injuries and eliminating worker frustrations. Efficiencies in Assembly Cells According to Mr. DeVoy, box flaps...
The 2019 event was a record-breaking success where we were one of a handful of USA companies’ demonstrating the latest solutions to box re-use. We shared the booth with our UK distributor, Item Products, Ltd.