This document summarizes the Banana RPC, a reusable plastic container for transporting and displaying bananas. Some key points: - It is more durable than cardboard boxes, reducing product damage during transport and storage. It can also be used for point-of-sale displays. - It cools bananas faster and more consistently than cardboard boxes, reducing ripening and increasing shelf life. - It is designed for efficient manual or automated handling, stacking, and replacement in produce departments to save time and money. - As a reusable container, it helps operate more sustainably by eliminating waste and being recycled into new RPCs after use, reducing pollution and resource usage compared to single-use boxes.

1. The Banana RPC
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A Brambles Company
A sturdy, food-safe Reusable Plastic Container (RPC) for bananas. Tough and
durable, it significantly reduces product damage during transport and storage
compared with cardboard boxes. It’s also ideal for point-of-sale (POS) display.
Protects your produce
+ Cools bananas to the ideal 14.2°C 33% faster and 41% more consistently
than cardboard boxes1
+ Faster cooling reduces premature ripening and increases shelf-life
Efficient handling
+ Fast manual or automated unfolding
+ Easy stacking with minimum effort
+ Quick to replace in fresh produce department, saving time and money
Helps you operate more sustainably
+ Reusable over many years, eliminating waste
+ After useful life, material is recycled into new RPCs
+ Reduced waste, pollution and use of natural resources2
Pooled and serviced through CHEP’s network of Service Centres
1. Based on airflow testing at the University of Florida in collaboration with banana grower Dole and
independent research firm Sensitech
2. Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable Plastic Containers conducted by Franklin
Associates, a Division of Eastern Research Group (ERG), March 2017
8080 The Banana RPC
Black
External dimensions (LxW) 600 x 400 mm
Total height 224 mm
Stacking height 214 mm
Usable internal height 205 mm
Folded height 46,4 mm
Folded stacking height 36,4 mm
Food grade polypropylene
FDA black
1,85 kg
18,8 kg
Reefer Container Under
40ft. High Cube deck
10 9
50 45
2315 mm 2101 mm
1000 -
62 54
310 270
2432 mm 2141 mm
6200 -
Description
Colour
Dimensions*
Material
Colour
Weight
Maximum Load
Loading
Number of layers with
packed RPC’s per pallet
(unfolded)**
Number of packed
RPC’s per pallet
(unfolded)**
Total height with
packed RPC’s incl.
pallet (unfolded)**
Number of packed
RPC’s in container /
under deck (unfolded)***
Number of layers per
pallet (RPC’s folded)**
Number of RPC’s per
pallet (folded)**
Total pallet height
with RPC’s incl. pallet
(folded)**
Number of RPC’s in
container/under deck
(folded)***
* Actual dimensions may vary
** ISO-pallet: 1200 x 1000 x 165 mm
*** May vary depending on reefer
container height/under deck
storage height
RPC = Reusable Plastic Container
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2. Additional information
Temperature range usable from -10 °C to + 60 °C (up to + 90 °C for brief periods)
Properties guaranteed, long-life colour intensity, UV radiation resistant, food safe
Handling instructions - Unfolding
1 Pull up long sides by gripping a handle with
each hand
All information without guarantee and subject to change without notice.
Folding
2 Pull short side walls up with the handle until
they lock into place
3 Push corners into slots until each tab is
engaged
1 Pull blue or yellow locking tabs on the short
side walls inwards in order to unlock them
2 Fold long sides down onto the folded short
sides
Stacking
The Banana RPC
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SPECIFICATIONS
A Brambles Company
2653 DECEMBER 2017
www.chep.com