Plastic- Security and Hygiene

The operator of the first pallet rental service providing all plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification tags, Intelligent Global Pooling Services (iGPS Company), recently announced that it will be offering a new, premium level pallet rental service.
The premium service, iGPS bios™, is designed specifically to meet the needs of the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. iGPS bios will provide a level of pallet security and hygiene that in unable to be achieved with pallets created out of organic materials such as wood.
“The pharmaceutical and life sciences industries are so critical to our economy and our well being. They deserve a shipping platform that is commensurate with their importance and consistent with the superior hygiene standards they exemplify,” explained Bob Moore, iGPS Chairman and CEO.
iGPS pallets have four radio frequency identification tags embedded in the frame which allows for tracking and tracing throughout the supply chain. iGPS has also begun to deploy Spider® AT tags, a battery powered GSM/GPRS/GPS wireless tag, that can transmit important information regarding the iGPS pallets such as defined alerts, specific events and pallet location.
An analysis of the life cycle of a pallet shows that iGPS pallets are extremely better for the environment than one-time and multi-use wooden pallets on all commonly measured metrics including ozone layer depletion, ecotoxicity and global warming.
Over the past five years, customers of iGPS have assisted in the prevention of the destruction of more than 600,000 trees, have saved more than 635,000 gallons of fuel and have prevented almost 14 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.