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INTERVIEW

Clamp lift Driver and part time inventor
Mark Costello Answers questions
regarding his patented shipping system.

Q: Hello Mr. Costello, How did you come up with this idea?

A: I was hired at a local winery where I drove a forklift on night shift. I was assigned to one of their production lines. My duties were to load bulk glass on the line and maintain all supplies used in producing a bottle of wine. After a period of time working on the line, I couldn't help but notice the massive amount of stretch wrap being dumped on a daily basis. So one day sitting on my lift looking at the stack of bulk glass in front of me, I said, "Why aren't these stacks in recyclable crates?"

Q: As an inventor, this must have excited you.

A: I was excited, but I have been doing this a while now, so I know until you have worked out all the kinks not to get to enthusiastic.

Q: What is the next step?

A: The next step was to reverse engineer my idea so it would be OEM on the customer side. As I kept working, I wrote down the production process from the supplier to the production line, luckily before I started this job, I worked for another winery that made its own glass. The warehouse and glass plant were connected, so I was always passing by their facility and talking with their drivers. So with that knowledge, I listed all of the benefits both sides would experience using my shipping method.

Q: So what are the benefits?

A. The environment is the paramount reason for switching over. A stretch wrapped pallet of bulk glass creates three pounds of plastic while the shroud type
creates six pounds. Listed below are the benefits.

Glass Plants:

• Faster assembly time! - Stretch wrap machines are slow and are not environmentally sustainable. An assembly machine could be designed for automatic or semi - automatic assembly.

• Completely enclosed - My system creates a cube environment for bulk glass which has interlocking features at the bottom of each panel. This feature eliminates the need for air bags, which are used to isolate the pallets while in transit to customers. THESE BAGS ARE EVEN WORSE THEN THE STRETCH WRAP, BECAUSE THEY ARE PAPER ON THE OUTSIDE AND PLASTIC ON THE INSIDE!

Bottling Facilities:

• Easy for customers to work with - When a trailer of glass is docked, most of the time it will contain eleven air bags, which is a time waster for the driver and needless when there are better ways to restrain bulk glass. No air bags are needed if my method is used. Mine interlock front to back and side to side, put a cargo lock in the back and your done.

• Panels remove quickly - When a driver sets a unit on the line, removal of my panels is quick and easy. The worker pops off the cap with his suction device while prying the lid open with a light weight pry bar. The lid stays suspended until the panels are removed and placed on a pallet designed to accept the panels in a right up position, which is achieved by the design of designated holes in the pallet. The lid is placed back on the stack where the slip sheet suction device takes the lid and stacks it on a pallet.

• Panels and lids - When the pallet fills up with panels, they simply get shipped back to the glass plant with the lids to be used again.

Q: It sounds like using your shipping method will be helpful on both ends of the beverage industry.

A: My system offers nothing but positives for the environment and the beverage and food industries.

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