Pooling: Sustainable supply chain solutions
Experience a smarter, more sustainable way to handle your packaging needs with Tosca.
Pooling service lets you stay focused on your business while Tosca manages, repairs, cleans, and delivers your crates, bins, and pallets when and where you need them.
We invest in packaging so you can grow your business
At Tosca, our pooling services—including crate pooling, pallet pooling, and container pooling—handle all your packaging needs by managing, repairing, cleaning, and delivering reusable plastic crates, bulk bins, and pallets precisely when and where you need them.
How do pooling services work?
Tosca pooling services manage your supply chain assets through shared, reusable, food-safe solutions, reducing waste and boosting efficiency. By pooling, you lower your environmental impact and carbon footprint.
Retailers solutions
B2B industry solutions
Delivery of assets to supplier
Tosca reusables are delivered to a supplier—when and where they’re needed—to begin their journey. When you pool with Tosca you only pay for an asset’s single trip through the supply chain including washing and servicing.
Assets shipped to distribution center
Reusable containers are shipped to a retail distribution center where they’re prepped and await transport to a store.
Product delivered to retail store
Reusables are stored neatly in the back room or cooler at a store. They can be unloaded or, in the case of retail-ready assets, they can be placed directly at point-of-sale in the store.
Sortation & return of assets
After being unloaded or used, reusables make the journey from the retail store to a salvage sort center where they’re joined by more Tosca reusables from other stores and sorted by type and size.
Sanitisation & service at Tosca site
Tosca picks up the used reusables from the sort center and delivers them to one of our 18 service centers for an efficient process. They’re inspected, repaired if necessary, and washed under the industry’s most rigorous food safety program.
Embedding re-use at the heart of your supply chain
Pooling load carriers with Tosca integrates reuse seamlessly into your supply chain, fostering a circular economy. This collaborative approach shares resources, minimises risk, protects assets, cuts labour costs, reduces carbon footprint, and streamlines your operations. Enjoy capital savings and enhanced flexibility while focusing on your core business, with zero capital outlay.
Pooling solutions for Loaders
Pooling solutions for Unloaders
Tosca delivers cleaned, empty load carriers to your suppliers from one of its Service Centers, located all over Europe.
Use our POOL-IT system to detail the load carriers you have sent to the customers. You have full visibility of these movements too.
When the Tosca load carriers are empty, your customer simply stacks them by product type and either orders a collection via POOL-IT or waits until we contact them for a collection. We collect empty load carriers from their site.
Why choose Tosca as your expert pooling partner?
For 60+ years, Tosca has transformed supply chains for the world’s top retailers and suppliers. Partnering with Tosca for container pooling to manage your reusable assets—such as plastic crates, pallets, and bulk bins—brings measurable benefits to your operations:
Operational success
Leave the complexities to us. We streamline processes, making your operations simpler and more efficient.
Free up capital
Let Tosca handle your reusable assets, so you can focus your investment on your core business.
Boost sales
Enhance product visibility and quality with Tosca’s packaging, increasing sales.
Minimise product damage
Protect your products with our durable, reusable packaging.
Reduce costs
Save by replacing single-use packaging with our efficient, cost-effective solutions.
Promote sustainability
Achieve your environmental goals with our 100% reusable packaging.
We go where you grow: Reusable packaging on demand
From local needs to global impact. Our expansive EU pooling services unlock supply chain optimisation at every step, promoting sustainability, efficiency and operational success.
Ready to unlock the benefits of pooling?
Talk to our experts and take the first step toward a more sustainable and efficient packaging solution.