Office Moves - Some tips to make your office move stress free

Stress Free Office Moves

It can be a very daunting time organising an office relocation.  There are a great deal of aspects that need to be considered when planning.  It is really important that there is as little disruption to the business as possible.

Office Moves - Stress Free Tips

To help you plan your move PPS have put together some tips to ensure that your move goes smoothly:

1.    Use an office removals company – Employing a removal company that specialises in office moves will take the pressure off.  They will have years of experience managing commercial relocations and be able to offer advice alongside their services.

2.    Hire removal crates’ – Hiring plastic removal crates is an economic and efficient way to transport important equipment and documents.  They are secure and sturdy plus they can be hired for as long as necessary giving you time to unpack.

3.    Keep staff informed – It is important staff are aware of the timescale and what will be expected of them.

4.    Packing – Office removals companies can do the packing for you or you can purchase packing equipment such as bubble wrap with your crate hire.  This added flexibility allows you to pack in your own time.

5.    Customers and suppliers – It is important that you keep your customers and suppliers informed.  If you are closed for any time make sure they know. 

6.    Change address – Make sure everyone you deal with knows about your change of address.  Contact Royal Mail to divert your mail to stop anything getting lost in the post.

For more information about Office Moves Crate Rental contact Joanne Moss or visit our Website

Benefits of Crate Hire

Crate Hire from PPS

There are lots of things that need to be considered when planning a commercial relocation.  Fundamentally it needs to cause as little disruption to customers and staff as possible.  For this to succeed the move needs to be as efficient as possible.

The rental of plastic removal crates provides those companies embarking on a commercial relocation with an efficient and flexible solution.

Here are just some of the Benefits of Crate Hire:

•    They are reusable making them more environmentally friendly
•    Plastic crates are much more durable and stronger than cardboard boxes providing greater protection for your goods, allowing a wider variety of items to be transported.
•    They are weatherproof providing greater protection.
•    Plastic crates are stackable when full making them easy to transport.
•    PPS provides moving equipment to be used alongside the plastic crates such as sack barrows to encourage safe handling and easy transportation.
•    The plastic crates are nestable when empty saving on valuable storage space.
•    The economic rental costs make them a perfect option, you only pay for the crates when you need them.

When conducting a move not everything always goes to plan but you can always rely on professional service and support from the commercial moves team at PPS.

Please contact PPS for more information on our crate rental service.

Crate Hire - The Benefits

Benefits of Crate Hire

There are lots of things that need to be considered when planning a commercial relocation.  Fundamentally it needs to cause as little disruption to customers and staff as possible.  For this to succeed the move needs to be as efficient as possible.

The rental of plastic removal crates provides those companies embarking on a commercial relocation with an efficient and flexible solution.

Crate hire for Office Moves &
Business Relcation

Here are just some of the benefits of crate hire:

•    They are reusable making them more environmentally friendly
•    Plastic crates are much more durable and stronger than cardboard boxes providing greater protection for your goods, allowing a wider variety of items to be transported.
•    They are weatherproof providing greater protection.
•    Plastic crates are stackable when full making them easy to transport.
•    PPS provides moving equipment to be used alongside the plastic crates such as sack barrows to encourage safe handling and easy transportation.
•    The plastic crates are nestable when empty saving on valuable storage space.
•    The economic rental costs make them a perfect option, you only pay for the crates when you need them.

When conducting a move not everything always goes to plan but you can always rely on professional service and support from the commercial moves team at PPS.

Please contact PPS for more information on our crate rental service.

Returnable Transit Packaging - why use it

10 Reasons to use Returnable Transit Packaging

Returnable Packaging -
Lowering the cost and Carbon Emissions

Thousands of tonnes of packaging have to be disposed of in the UK every year! This includes cardboard and polystyrene boxes used within the supply chain to transport food.  As environmental issues are becoming more and more important within our society companies are considering switching to returnable Transit Packaging (RTP). 

When making this move there are many things that they need to consider including whether they should buy equipment or opt for rental.

When looking into their options a lot of companies have come to PPS, who for over 10 years have been providing clients throughout the UK and Europe with rental and pooling solutions from our comprehensive range of equipment including plastic pallets, trays, crates and boxes.

RTP pooled equipment solutions from PPS offer a simple and easy to manage solution, with controlled online management and predictable one-fee cost with no hidden extras. PPS take the responsibility for retrieving the packaging from third parties, ensuring it meets hygiene standards and return it to the pool.
At PPS we have put together what we believe to be the top 10 benefits of pooling RTP

1.    Financial – RTP is very easy to budget for with one price per product (crate/pallet) for the full service that includes rental, wash, transport and management.  There is no expensive capital outlay needed when equipment is purchased.

2.    Environmental Benefits – Renting and pooling RTP is a sustainable way of conducting business and works towards reducing a company’s carbon footprint.  RTP replaces one-trip disposable packaging that has negative environmental and economic impact. A reduction in waste and possible landfill charges has immediate cost savings and increases overall profitability.

3.    Savings in Transport & Handling - Returnable packaging is usually designed to be stacked or collapsible, reducing storage and transport space and the associated costs.

4.    Improved Protection - Returnable packaging is manufactured and designed to be more robust and durable, helping to reduce the risk of product damage during transit and therefore decreases customer returns. Secure and rigid RTP are ideal for the transportation of fresh, perishable and valuable goods requiring optimum protection – and these can be hygienically washed and returned in to the loop. 

5.    Bespoke Solutions - Where customers require, tailored solutions can be provided to meet specific materials handling needs in terms of size, distribution and with health and safety issues in mind.

6.    Conservation - More socially acceptable as the conservation of energy and raw materials throughout the supply chain has both environmental and economical benefits. Lower energy consumption for washing reusable RTP should be considered against higher energy costs for recycling cardboard and timber.

7.    Pooling Benefits - This enables clients to concentrate their efforts, energies and resources into their core business and allows a specialist business to handle their returnable packaging.

8.    Hygienically Clean Product - On delivery, used plastic pool rented products can be collected and washed to BRC approved standards before being retuned into the supply chain for re-use. Most businesses operating strict hygienic standards can take the stock direct to factory floor.  PPS have two modern and hygienic dedicated wash plants in the Midlands and Grimsby for washing of all its own returnable packaging and also extends this service to third parties on ad hoc or contract basis.

9.    Tracking Systems - The success of a pooled rental system depends not only on fit-for-purpose packaging but also on effective control and management of the closed loop system.  PPS customers can access and monitor the precise location of all transit equipment using ‘ENABLE’, which is a bespoke PPS web-based online tracking system for management of product and unit distribution. Input of data can be integrated with customers own software systems or can be input directly via the PPS website. Receiving locations can also monitor deliveries to assess for collection needs.

10.    Flexibility of Service - Products are available in large and small volumes for long or short term periods and therefore provides the maximum flexibility to cater for seasonal peaks and troughs. Customers no longer need to hold on to high levels of stock during seasonal lows.

PPS can assist customers investigate the feasibility of replacing current single use packaging with bespoke reusable packaging and projects have experience and been involved in many industrial sectors including food, fish, meat & poultry processing, retail, automotive, electronics, etc.   


For more information about Returnable Transit Packaging contact Joanne Moss or visit our Website

RTE Company PPS on the move

Returnable Transit Equipment Company PPS Midlands Plans a Premises Move in 2013

Due to continual expansion at PPS Midlands and to facilitate ambitious growth plans in the future PPS is currently looking to move in 2013 to new premises approximately double the size of our current facility. The company has increased sales by over 25% in 2012 in its core business services of crate rental, pallet rental, crate pooling, pallet pooling, crate washing, pallet washing and returnable transit equipment repairs.

PPS will be using their crates to ensure their
on office moves goes smoothly

To ensure a smooth premises move PPS will utilise the planning skills of its recently set up Commercial Moves Division which has been set up to offer crate hire and management to help our customers plan office, school, library and business moves. Our crate rental service enables customers to pack the crates hired from PPS with important documents, files and equipment and move to a new location or store the goods while any premises refurbishment is undertaken.

For commercial and business moves we offer a wide range of crate hire options including lidded crate rental, plastic crate hire, book crate rental, computer crate hire and all industry standard handling equipment to assist with the move.

Commercial crate hire from PPS is a service designed to assist customers in achieving an office or business move with as little hassle as possible. We will also support, with our crate rental service, the requirements of professional removal companies, facilities managers or any company carrying out its own move whatever its size or location. Our rental products are available in large and small volumes and plastic crate hire offers an ideal solution for short term or seasonal peaks. Crate rental allows companies to focus capital expenditure on their core business and not on packaging.

PPS has been providing returnable transit packaging solutions for over 10 years which includes crate hire and plastic pallet rental systems to customers throughout the UK and Europe. We currently have two BRC accredited wash plants in the UK where we wash our own pool of crates, pallets, pallet boxes, fish boxes and tote boxes. We also carry out tray washing, pallet washing and box washing for third parties in a variety of sectors including the food, retail, manufacturing, fish processing, and automotive industries.
For more information about PPS Equipment and our services visit our website at www.ppsequipment.co.uk

Office Churn - Crate Hire for Business Moves

Office Churn - Business Regorganisation of Workspace

David Peggie & Joanne Moss - PPS Equipment

PPS has recently entered into a new industry – the removals industry!  We now not only rent and wash returnable transit equipment (RTE) for the food, retail and automotive industries.  We now hire removal crates and equipment.  Our removal crates are being rented out to commercial removal companies as well as schools, colleges and businesses conduction their own moves.

Throughout the process of launching our new service we have found ourselves learning all about the removals industry.  Everyone within this industry has been with welcoming and has provided us with insights into their area of expertise.  It is through them that we discovered the term ‘office churn’.

Office churn is where companies regularly reorganise their workspace.  People often move departments within a company and sometimes whole departments can move to make the workspace more efficient.  Obviously when people move all their equipment and files have to move with them. 

PPS can help companies with office churn by providing a constant supply of rental crates onsite.   We can arrange to have crates permanently onsite for companies who regularly reorganise their space.  The crates can then be used as when they are needed giving staff time to unpack.  If at any time extra crates are need PPS would be able to supply them from our pool.

We also have specific computer crates that allow all the important IT equipment to be packed together.  We appreciate that it is important equipment is not damaged whilst it is transported so we can supply bubble wrap to complement our sturdy removal crates.  Handling equipment is also available to prevent any health and safety problems.

See our recent article published in "The Mover"

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