PPS East achieve BRC accreditation
Grimsby-based PPS East has just become BRC Storage & Distribution certificated at its state-of-the-art wash location where they wash a range of returnable transit equipment such as plastic crates, pallets and bins.
The main business of PPS East is the management of returnable transit packaging. This includes the supply of equipment such as plastic fish boxes and plastic pallets, as well as larger bins or pallet boxes. PPS manage pools of such equipment and part of that equipment management is the hygienic washing of all used packaging.
PPS East moved into its current modern factory facility over a year ago, having invested considerably in industrial wash equipment primarily used for the washing of fish crates and seafood boxes. The company has increased its exposure supplying the retail sectors and they felt that BRC accreditation would encourage other large players in the fish sector to use their services.
During the course of 2011 PPS introduced a Quality Management System at the Grimsby location and this was the basis of the recent audit, which resulted in the award of the BRC certification.
Although the core business of PPS East has historically been linked to the fishing sector, the company has recently launched a new marketing initiative offering its services to other non-fish food sectors, capitalising on Grimsby’s reputation as “Europe’s Food Town.”
PPS East has recently appointed agents in Iceland who are working with Icelandic processors, using PPS plastic fish boxes and plastic pallets in part of what PPS terms its “Total Equipment Solutions”. Briefly this requires PPS to supply returnable transit equipment to its agent in Iceland who distributes it to the local processors for the supply of fish to the UK market. PPS then collects used equipment, washes it and returns it again to Iceland.
PPS East has a sister plant, PPS Midlands, based at Measham, north of Birmingham. This site also houses industrial washing lines which wash plastic crates, boxes and plastic pallets, again largely for the food sectors of meat and poultry. The Midlands site is accredited to ISO 22000.
Andy Flynn, Operations Director of PPS said, “Our sites at Grimsby and in the Midlands are similar in their operations. We achieved our ISO 22000 certification some time ago at Measham but after careful consideration, decided that the BRC Storage & Distribution certification at Grimsby would be more appropriate for our profile and market visibility in the markets we currently serve”.
16/12/2011
