Thursday, 17 December 2015

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.

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

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. 

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

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 17th December at 12:00.
6.     PPS will announce a winner by Friday 18th 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.