Why is pooling sustainable?
Open pooling of storage and transport containers like Euro containers, E Performance crates, H1 pallets, big boxes or other packaging optimises logistics processes along the entire supply chain and helps everyone involved to increase the sustainability of their empty container logistics.
The advantages of a sustainable pooling solution
The advantages that food industry customers get from exchanging standardised load carriers and transport containers include the following:
✓ Sustainability through exchanging
The idea of open pooling itself is sustainable. It is a Europe-wide system of exchanging reusable containers which benefits all participants by enabling them to exchange load carriers in a flexible, cost-effective manner.
✓ Reuse
We pool standard load carriers like Euro containers, which follow European guidelines and fulfil all the hygienic requirements of the food industry.
✓ Reduction of CO2 emissions
Thanks to our broad network, storage and transport containers can be reused anywhere in Europe. This provides savings on transporting empty containers, thus lowering CO2 emissions and fuel costs.
✓ Digital empty container management
With poolbook, our proprietary software, your empty container management will become more digital, more efficient and more resource-friendly since it automates and simplifies the steps in the process.
Sustainability Report
Faber Group, the Dutch parent company of vPOOL Logistics GmbH, has published its first sustainability report for 2023 to disclose its sustainability efforts, KPIs and ambitions to all stakeholders.
The circular economy
The pool of standardised load carriers in food production such as meat crates, hygienic pallets and big boxes, along with our Europe-wide network, creates synergies through demand and excess supply. This makes it possible for food producers, distributors and logistics providers to increase the efficiency of their logistics processes by eliminating unnecessary transportation.
With our Europe-wide network of service partners and an optimised linkage of supply and demand for load carriers, the distances travelled and the associated CO2 emissions can be reduced, with some journeys eliminated entirely.
Thanks to our individually customised empty container management in the pooling system, everyone involved is better positioned to reach their sustainability goals. Empty journeys can be avoided through transfers in which load carriers are credited and can later be retrieved.
We’ve set the bar high: As a group, we want to be the world’s most sustainable manufacturer and pooling service provider for pallets and boxes. Ingrid Faber, CEO of the Faber Group
More sustainable logistics through pooling
🗸 Optimal linking of demand and excess supply of load carriers
🗸 More efficient logistics processes through synergistic effects
🗸 Fewer empty journeys, less CO2
🗸 Open pool = Maximum exchangeability
🗸 Balance settlement without physical movements
Pooling your load carriers – meaning you’ll get empty containers at the right time and place – leads to incredible cost savings by leveraging network effects and synergies.
The pooling system doesn’t just contribute to a more sustainable, greener supply chain by reducing transport distances or eliminating trips and thus lowering CO2 emissions: instead, pooling also allows you to handle your load-carrier management more efficiently, meaning you can focus on your core business.
Faber Group is EcoVadis Platinum certified
For the third time in a row, Faber Group has received the Platinum Ecovadis sustainability rating in 2024! EcoVadis is a leading provider of business sustainability ratings, with a network of more than 75,000 rated companies. With the highest Platinum rating Faber Group resides in the top 1% tier of companies in our industry.
What sustainability means in the Faber Group
We have always been focused on a sustainable future
We feel we have a duty to our clients and to future generations to offer high-quality, reusable and sustainable products and services.
Our goal is to make a positive impact with our logistics solutions for supply chains. We are bringing the circular economy to the logistics industry and see circularity as a service within a shared economy.
Our mission and vision is the circular economy
Using pooling and other circular systems, we want to work together with our clients to close the loop. We help you solve your logistics challenges and meet your sustainability goals, putting you in a position where you can concentrate on your core business. We innovate and accelerate the joint use of logistics products and support environmental protection. We invest in innovative circular concepts.
The Faber Group has introduced an ambitious SDG programme in order to make a positive impact, driven by the responsibility to act with care.
Our mission and vision is the circular economy
Using pooling and other circular systems, we want to work together with our clients to close the loop. We help you solve your logistics challenges and meet your sustainability goals, putting you in a position where you can concentrate on your core business. We innovate and accelerate the joint use of logistics products and support environmental protection. We invest in innovative circular concepts.
The Faber Group has introduced an ambitious SDG programme in order to make a positive impact, driven by the responsibility to act with care.