2015 in pictures

As 2015 now draws to a close it is time to look back on the year here at PPS. It has been an eventful 2015, we began the year settled into our premises here at Marchington. 

With new members of the PPS team starting throughout the year, our sales team grew in April with Hannah joining as Sales Advisor, handling enquiries and quotes along with social media and marketing aspects. After a busy Easter period the spring drew to a close and we welcomed summer with open arms, the accounts department greeted Diane to their team as Accounts Administrator to handle invoicing and credit control.

Into summer the temperature are really started to hot up as we prepared for the Meat Up exhibition held at Stoneleigh park, it happened to fall on the hottest few days of the year. An event for the whole meat industry to come together to see the latest innovations and technology alongside competitions.  

During August Charlotte was introduced to the Operations department working alongside Andy Moss our Operations Manager in running the day to day logistics of deliveries and collections, booking in drivers and handling stock control from our 24/7 wash site. We also redesign our lorry curtains which are part of the Jeffreys Haulage fleet.

As the summer drew to a close we were thrilled to announce the news of PPS acquiring Alison Handling Services, an exciting venture increasing the services of the PPS group. Alison Handling stocks 1000’s of plastic products suitable for a multitude of industries from bakery trays to pallet boxes to plastic dollys, all available on a next day delivery.

In September PPS attended the Movers and Storers show, a key exhibition in the Removals Industry held at Silverstone racetrack. The show was held over two days and consisted of keynote seminars held in the learning zone. Another successful event enjoying the company of both new and current customers. We also had the pleasure of staying in a Snoozebox, a 40ft container made into four bedrooms perfect for short stays.

September was a huge month for our Grimsby operation with the move to our new warehouse facility, almost tripling the size of our wash site. To celebrate, our open day was held to coincide with the World Seafood Congress of which we had the pleasure of welcoming Pete Ward, CEO of Youngs to cut the ribbon.

After introducing our Re-Fresh box to the fish industry in May at the Seafood Expo in Brussels, it was then released for purchase, rental and wash to industries including food, automotive and pharmaceutical. A brand new machine was also installed design to specifically wash the new box and lid to BRC standards.  

With an increased focus on waste throughout 2015, it is sure to continue to receive strong focus into 2016. Our MD Joanne Moss spoke with Food Manufacture to discuss returnable transit packaging in the food industry, inevitably reducing waste in the supply chain. Click here to read the article.

We wish all of our customers a very happy Christmas and look forward to welcoming many more of you on board during 2016.

Do you use Instagram? Follow us via @PPSMIDLANDS for our images throughout 2016.

Grimsby factory tours in pictures- The Wash Site

Since our expansion to a larger site, we give you this opportunity to visit the premises via a virtual tour around the factory in our latest series of blogs.

 We wash around 50,000 trays and boxes used by seafood processing factories and fish suppliers for transporting fresh fish. Our boxes are also used for fish being sold on Grimsby fish auction market each week.

We also wash plastic pallets, bulk bins & tubs, fish smoking racks, freezing spacers and sometimes filters from smoking kilns along with our new ReFresh box which has its own specialist BRC washing machine.

It’s not just fish, Grimsby also wash equipment for the food industry.

Despite the high numbers of crates washed, PPS pride ourselves on the highest standard of hygiene using our BRC accredited wash plant.

Dirty crates are swiftly dispensed on to the machine belt with a box being washed through our machine every 30 seconds.

Once cleaned they are removed and stacked.

To protect the crates from being soiled in transport, they are placed on to a pallet wrapper, ready for dispatch.

Once wrapped the stack is barcoded ready for collection.

Have you got dirty crates, trays, boxes, totes, pallets or Dolavs? We'd love to have them in for a wash- call us on 01283 821 502 to organise your trial.

Grimsby factory tours in pictures- The Office

Delve into our PPS office on this factory tour.

As you enter the Grimsby office via our reception area, here you find our BRC certificate proudly displayed along with a range of artwork. The artwork on display demonstrates our warehouse facilities and reusable plastic packaging, this is also where visitors can signed in. The visitor hatch is also located in our reception area where you will be met by Paul Durrant our Operations Manager.

Moving on inside the office you will be greeted by the operations team. They are the first port of call for visitors. Operations is easily accessible from reception making it ideal for handling equipment movement.

The office is set out as an open plan environment making it easy for the team to work together efficiently, whist having their own space to work on their individual tasks.

Moving around the office, finance is located to one end of the room making it more practical to deal with confidential matters.

The last area is sales and marketing, here the team handle pooling, washing and fish box sales along with social media and other aspects of the business.

Our break out areas include an office room with desks for private working and meeting room. 

Caption Our Goldfish

To celebrate the release our our new Re-Fresh box and the run up to Christmas, we are giving you the chance to win a Christmas gift box. All you need to do is enter the "Caption Our Goldfish" competition. You can enter by emailing enquiries@ppsequipment or via twitter. Entries must be received by Thursday 17th December. Terms and conditions apply. Good luck!

Terms and conditions

1.     Entrants to the competition shall be deemed to have accepted the following terms and conditions.

2.     One entry per person.

3.     Entries via twitter must include a PPS twitter handle

·        @PPSEast

·        @PPSMidlands

·        @PPSCrates

4.     By submitting an entry you are giving PPS permission to publish your caption.

5.     The competition will close on Thursday 17^th December at 12:00.

6.     PPS will announce a winner by Friday 18^th December at 17:00.

7.     When selecting a winner the judges will consider the most original, witty, funny and surprising caption.

8.     The judges decision is final.

9.     The prize given will reflect the contents of the caption photo but may not include the exact items.