IPL Material Handling: Reusable meat container

IPL Material Handling offers SmartCrate 3513-11, a collapsible, reusable container specifically designed for shipping bone-in-loin pork and beef primal meat cuts from primal source plants to case-ready plants.

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Dec 31, 2005

Said to be the first hand-held collapsible container for the meat industry, SmartCrate provides more rapid cooling, better product protection, less solid waste, reduced handling labor, and better product tracking than 1-time containers.

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