Container returnable

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The main application is in the form of tinplate. Apart from its use for containers mentioned earlier, tinplate is made into domestic and industrial kitchen equipment, light engineering products and toys. For most of these purposes, coatings in the thickness range 0-4-2-5 im, with or without organic finishes, are used. For returnable containers and more permanent articles such as fuel tanks and gas-meter cases, heavier coatings of up to 15 m may be necessary. 

Problems may arise with switch-loading of road tankers, ships or pipelines and with the use of returnable containers. The important considerations for safety are ... 

Figure 15.4 shows a procedure for the refilling of returnable containers with a chemical of assured quality. (This will require some combination of documentation, sampling and analysis to ensure that the chemical is of the correct type, and in the intended condition.) This is applicable to drums and plastic containers, and bottles, but some modifications are necessary for pressure systems, i.e. gas cylinders, covered by the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000 including ... 

The remainder is returned with the overflow feed to the second thickener. The filtrate returned contains ... 

Provision incorporated for degassing returned containers and five-yearly statutory inspection of containers. 

Returnable container, drumless delivery, and portable feed systems services... 

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Systems based on specialist small returnable containers. Specialised container with closure that forms one half of a dry break coupling. Containers are returned for re-filling. CIBA LINK or LINK-PAC Sotera system - still at prototype stage. Emptied/transfer by inverting container. Possible to transfer part contents of a container but without direct measurement. Returnable containers are not rinsed. 

Systems based on specialist keg type returnable containers. Specialised returnable kegs. Fitted with dip tube and components for interface valve with tamper-proof seals. Kegs can be tracked and labelled electronically. Ecomatic - Cyanamid Signet 2000 - Team Sprayers. Wisdom system with Micromatic drum valve . The development of a standard interface valve has been a key part of such developments. Returnable containers are not rinsed but transfer system is. 

The annual capacity of the United States to manufacture phosgene is about 2 billion lb, and the unit price is 0.55 (per pound 1993). The gas is packaged in 1-ton returnable containers that cost about 3,000 each. Most of the demand of about 1.6 billion lb is consumed in the production of polyurethane (PUR) followed by the production of polycarbonates (PC) [85]. 

In the UK, landfill, incineration and composting are the normal disposal processes (ratio approximately 86 13 1). However, segregation of waste to encourage recycling and reuse (returnable containers) now has more emphasis, with landfill and incineration being seen as poor substitutes (a general but not finally approved opinion). 

Table V distributes U.S. shipments of industrial finishes into eight end-use areas for 1980-82, with projections to 1987. Declines in gallonage are indicated in markets for metal, wood, and transportation finishes. However, some of this is due to the projected greater use of high-solids (HS) finishes overall, consumption of IF by dry gallon is expected to be about the same from 1982 to 1987, since the average nonvolatile content by volume is expected to increase from 40% to about 50%. Can coatings will be affected by state returnable-container laws, the upsurge in the use of glass bottles, and the growth of plastic containers for soft drinks.

Insist on returnable containers—set up a container or pallet pool. 

The heat strengthening process offers improvements in all of the environmental loads that most containers are exposed to loads like internal pressure, thermal shock, vertical load, drop and impact. In addition, we have discovered through cooperation with SSV that the residual compression stress layer also resists scuffing and improves the durability of the surface, which adds further benefit for the use of thermal strengthening in the returnable container markets. 

The consolidation center is not used for every item. Indeed, suppliers deliver directly all the items other than those explicitly identifed for the consolidation center. Returnable containers with item-specific dunnage are used for local deliveries on milk runs because (1) they save assembler time and disposal costs, (2) their number caps the amount of parts in circulation, and (3) the trucks that ride back to the supplier plant would otherwise be empty. The economics of returnable containers become less favorable for distant suppliers, whose remote or overseas locations may provide opportunities for return freight. 

A second, similar motivation is to insulate the plant from domestic suppliers who will not work with kanbans or returnable containers. These suppliers should convert or be weeded out, but this process takes time, and meanwhile their products still need to be delivered to the plant. Again, the consolidation center relieves the plant from having to accept large, sporadic deliveries of inappropriately packaged parts. 

Returnable containers are made of sturdy plastics and contain item-specific dunnage that separates and presents parts to assemblers one by... 

Returnable containers also play a role in regulating the flow of parts. We know how many returnable containers are in circulation, and this number places a cap on how much material is in the supply chain. The two-bin system and variations on it are examples of the use of returnable containers as pull signals. For most items, however, kanbans are preferred because they offer more sequencing flexibility. 

This explains why the containers must be customized, but not why they need to be returnable. Single-use, item-specific containers could be quite expensive, but using returnable containers means sending empties back to suppliers. Clearly, the economics of doing it depend on how far that is and, more specifically, on whether there are opportunities for return freight. 

That is, from the strict point of view of transportation, the economics of returnable containers are favorable with local suppliers but not with remote or overseas suppliers. The customer plant, however, always needs item-specific containers that present the parts appropriately, and cannot be cheap enough unless they are returnable. The consolidation center emerges as the solution to reconcile these conflicting needs. 

Within the packaging hall, ideally the returned containers (not cleaned) should be strictly separated from cleaned containers and the filling area (wet part of the packaging haU). Any possibility for cross-contaminations shonld be minimized. 

State of Maine, Final Report of the Joint Study Commission to Study Reimbursement Rates for Maine s Bottle Redemption Businesses and Other Issues Related to the Handling and Collection cff Returnable Containers, Dec. 2001, http //www.maine.gov/legis/opla/bottletpt.PDF. 

Supply in special packing such as compressed gas packing (non-returnable containers)... 

A consolidation center is a facility, located near a manufacturing plant, that receives components and parts from many suppliers and delivers them to the plant. Practitioners of lean production use these centers to insulate the factory from overseas suppliers with long lead times and from domestic suppliers who cannot or will not work with kanbans, returnable containers, and truck "milk nms." In addition, in the automobile industry, consolidation centers allow materials handling work to be paid at its market rate rather than the high rate of car assembly. 

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