Plastic Packaging Crates

30 April 2010

Over the past few years, the use of plastic crates has increased across a wide breadth of industries, especially within the food sector.

Why has this occurred? Well, a Midlands-based company, PPS Equipment Management Ltd can offer some form of explanation. PPS is a specialist company in providing services for returnable transit equipment (RTE) – of which a large proportion is plastic packaging crates.

As a general rule plastic packaging crates offer an ideal alternative to one-way packaging such as cardboard boxes or expanded polystyrene packaging. PPS promotes the use of plastic packaging crates as a cost-effective way for a number of companies particularly in areas such as raw poultry, beef and pork sectors to not only reduce their carbon footprint but also critically to save costs. PPS acknowledges that the initial cost of a plastic packaging crate is higher than the cheaper cardboard, but it only takes a few trips for the plastic packaging crate to recoup the initial investment.

In addition to plastic crates, PPS offers rental services, online asset tracking and washing facilities at their sites in Measham and in Grimsby.