During the November peak, a third-party logistics hub in Suzhou ran out of rack positions for empty return crates two weeks before its largest customer finished a stock take. Releasing the same 1,00...

A Tier-1 stamping plant near Ningbo runs a closed-loop line-feed system with 18,000 returnable containers. Around 40 percent of them are collapsible plastic crates. The first batch was selected by u...

A PCB contract manufacturer and a wholesale fruit packhouse both added foldable plastic crates to their returnable packaging programs this year. Their requirements were opposites: one needed a solid...

A tier-1 automotive supplier recently asked us to dimension a 1,200-liter returnable pallet box for transmission housings. The injection molded quote carried a 1,200 kg dynamic load rating and an $8...

When a finished circuit board fails final test and the fault trace leads back to a plastic bin, static discharge is usually the reason. Industry studies, including work published by the ESD Associat...