A number of large companies within the food industry are turning to PPS Equipment Management Ltd for plastic crate hire. These tend to be a small number of standard sizes but all classified as returnable transit equipment (RTE).

Plastic re-usable i.e. returnable crates are increasingly replacing one-way trip cardboard packaging not only within the food sector, but also in pharmaceutical, retail and logistics application areas.

PPS specialises not only in crate hire, but probably more critically equipment management The company offers a service known as the “total management option” where not only simple crate hire but online asset tracking, retrieval from third parties and return to its Midlands centre where they have an industrial wash site, washing crates, boxes and plastic pallets to the highest standards of cleanliness.

Crate hire is increasingly attractive to companies who may wish or need to use returnable transit equipment, but do not have ready access to a capital expenditure budget and who have no desire to try to retrieve possibly far-flung crates.

These plastic crates are attractive and have many uses outside those of their primary function – as such many may often get “lost”. This is where PPS steps in, employing their own Enable online asset tracking system which allows easy retrieval of equipment. Furthermore, using a specialist crate hire company like PPS removes any potential conflict between supplier and customer in the event of lost or damaged equipment.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 11:29 am and is filed under crate hire .