Agriculture

At Rehrig, we know that reusable secondary packaging offers huge benefits. And a new report shows that collapsible rigid containers continue to gain in popularity and propel productivity.

Reducing food waste has been a pressing concern for much of 2019. Now, scientists are tackling the problem, using machine learning algorithms to help grocers streamline their inventory management.

A restaurant in Helsinki is trying to generate no waste. How? In part, by ensuring their entire supply chain employs reusable packaging.

Sometimes it’s easy to take for granted how much specialized, industry knowledge we have—knowledge that can make a big difference to consumers. See what this produce expert makes of ideas proposed in a recent Buzzfeed article.

Innovation and efficiency are always top of our priority list, and as many recent stories show, startups in the food waste industry are embracing that attitude with gusto.

Rehrig knows just how critical logistics are to success. Case in point: this startup hopes to tackle a $270 billion waste problem through some out-of-the-box logistical thinking.

Good news for those in the produce industry: A recent report shows consumer spending on fruits and veggies continues to trend upward—as does spending on food in general.

We’re all about improving efficiency and reducing waste in the perishable food supply chain, and this exciting new invention promises to help with that mission.

“With a tool like this, we can begin to breed plants that are more efficient in using water,” he said. “That’s exciting. We couldn’t do this before. But, once we can measure something, we can begin to understand it.”

Reduce contamination in these processes by following these agricultural and management best practices.

More businesses are adopting reusable packaging, both as a solution to decrease costs and to drive supply chain sustainability.

Reusable plastic containers “will reduce environmental impacts, deliver superior quality fruits and vegetables, optimize unit and transport loads, and offer value-added technology enhancements.”

As consumers get ready to dish out money on costumes, candy, decorations, and greeting cards, the Halloween supply chain is busy.

Foster Farms, the largest poultry processor on the West Coast, announced today that they will be streamlining their internal processing operations with the help of Rehrig Pacific.

Check out a day in the life of Brad Fuhrer, Rehrig Pacific’s Materials and Shipping Manager at the Pleasant Prairie Manufacturing Facility.

Few industries or business functions are experiencing as much disruption as logistics, supply chain and transportation.

Well-established sectors like agriculture may see the biggest efficiency gains and improvements from big data and analytics. Is the data-revolution here?

The capacity crunch and technology are reshaping 
the supply chain.

The software giant’s BrickBot project shows how robots can learn to autonomously do complex tasks. For now it’s with Legos. The next step is in factories.

Reducing loss of reusable packaging: An industry call to action.

Deep below the surface of Antarctica, scientists are hunting for ghosts. Tiny particles called “neutrinos” fill the universe, but they’re almost impossible to detect. Their mysterious origins have eluded researchers for decades.

How do golf equipment manufacturers keep America’s millions of golfers well stocked in balls, clubs, and apparel?

This special coating could have big implications for the agricultural industry, as well as your avocado toast.

With Independence Day quickly approaching and firework sales in full swing, we take a look at the physics behind this great American tradition.

Switching to Reusable Transport Packaging (RTP) is a supply chain game-changer.

In a lab at a U.K. research park, researchers from a startup called Tropic Biosciences are using CRISPR to create a better banana.

In recent years, technology in agriculture, also known as AgTech has rapidly changed the industry.

What do Rehrig Pacific and a herd of buffalo have in common? Finding smart solutions to common industry problems. Check out how buffalo have become the smart solution for Texas agriculture.

The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) launched today a new campaign promoting the value of reusable transport packaging systems for the movement of food from farm, producer, or processor to point of sale.

Come check us out at VIVA Fresh Produce Expo in San Antonio , TX April 5-7, 2018 Booth#55

Over the past 30 years, scientists at Bayer have been developing the Sunion, an onion that takes the tears out of chopping.

Rehrig Pacific Erie Team recently partnered with 7th and 8th grade students at J.S. Wilson Middle School in a video contest focused on “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing”

The Blended Burger Project has helped to support the national movement toward chefs developing more plant-forward, sustainably produced dishes, and patrons seeking healthier, more earth-friendly foods.

We’ll be at World Ag Expo February 13-15, so stop by and say hello!

When we heard broccoli was bring bruised in transit, we knew it wasn’t a matter of the broccoli being weak. It was a matter of physics.

The science behind route optimization has never been simpler. Our tracking software, Vision, does the heavy lifting so that you don’t have to.

Researchers at Iowa State University have developed new, low-cost, easily produced, graphene-based, sensors-on-tape that can be attached to plants and can provide new kinds of data to researchers and farmers.

Gravitational waves, goodbye to Cassini, and a hidden underwater octopus city.

It’s no secret that Santa is the greatest supply chain success story of all time. Not only does Santa have a laser focus on his target market — children of all ages — but he has a near perfect order rating, a global distribution channel that spans the world in 24 hours, door to chimney delivery, and low turnover rates amongst the elves. Still not convinced? Santa’s supply chain was the very first to run “in the cloud.”

Reduce, reuse, recycle. A very familiar phrase that isn’t often put into practice. Rehrig Pacific makes it easy to go by the three R’s because we design our products and logistics solutions around them from the very beginning.

It’s fair to say we find crates, pallets, bakery trays, beverage shells and other plastic containers much more exciting than the average person. So it may come as a surprise that supply chain plastic packaging is now at the center of a thriving criminal enterprise.

A good scientific solution is efficient, elegant and rigorously tested. And if you don’t think the supply chain can be all of those things at once, you haven’t worked with Rehrig Pacific yet.

We care a lot about supply chains, logistics, containers, and the physics behind them. We also care a lot about our customers, employees and community.

Cubes and cylinders are pretty easy shapes to design packaging around. But what shape is broccoli?

Salesforce unveiled Salesforce IoT Explorer Edition, a new platform that aims to remove the barriers for companies of all sizes to take advantage of the internet of things (IoT) and sensor data.

Pack Expo Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging Expo 2017 welcomed nearly 1,000 more attendees than 2015, making it the largest Pack Expo Las Vegas in history.