PPS Direct, part of the larger PPS Equipment Management Ltd, based in the Midlands at Measham has recently announced a new service repairing damaged metal roll cages.

PPS specialises in returnable transit equipment (RTE) and its management. In the early years this consisted of supplying plastic food crates and plastic pallets to the food industry and once used to despatch products, PPS would take responsibility for its safe return, to wash it and to re-introduce it into the pool system.

In addition to its core business, the company started selling metal roll cages a couple of years ago. They quickly understood that there was a market not only for new roll cages, but also a considerable second-hand requirement. So, today the company offers potential customers the option of purchasing either new or second-hand roll cages.

Not content with outright direct sales, PPS then decided to offer customers the choice of purchasing roll cages or renting them. This has proved a very successful exercise as customers now turn to PPS for anything from short-term roll cage rental to longer-term agreements.

Of course renting out industrial equipment or transit equipment means that you must be able to offer that equipment in first-class condition. But after a loan period some roll cages come back in less than pristine condition. So, PPS had to be able to repair broken or damaged roll cages and set up workshop in the Midlands to repair roll cages returning from rental.

But, typically the company decided to move a step further and now offers roll cage repair services to users of roll cages who have no facility to carry out repairs themselves.

PPS has since secured a long-term contract with a major sports retailer to repair a large number of damaged roll cages immediately and to offer an ongoing maintenance service – to include roll cage repairs – to this key client.

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 at 12:35 pm and is filed under Roll Cages .