TELEMETRY Do your IBCs keep disappearing in the supply chain? Is managing the IBC fleet a costly business? Perhaps recent advances in the application of telemetry systems can offer a solution, Pat Barron* suggests
CROSSBOTTLING The UK's Supreme Court has unanimously upheld an appeal by Werit in its longstanding patent dispute with Schütz over the crossbottling of intermediate bulk containers. The ruling has much wider implications for industrial and private consumers
DISPENSING Closed-system drum and IBC dispensing can offer shippers significant economic, safety and environmental benefits. Thomas A Braun, business manager, chemical and packaging products for US-based Colder Products Company (CPC), explains more
MANUFACTURING An unwavering attention to product quality and design is continuing to pay off for US steel drum maker Skolnik Industries, with its units regularly deployed across the globe to safely handle some of the most demanding applications going, from chemicals to radioactives and more
MANUFACTURING Mauser anticipates future growth for steel drums. Meanwhile, it has now harmonised it European plastics portfolio and opened a new fibre facility in North America
