New Use for Plastic Pallet Boxes

06 November 2009

A number of sales to a Midlands-based engineering company have been made for plastic pallet boxes – and for an unusual application!

Plastic pallet boxes are a regular staple of sales for some distribution companies, based in Measham in the Midlands. The core business of the parent company is the management of returnable transit equipment (RTE) and the Measham site houses a state-of-the-art industrial wash plant. Plastic crates, tote boxes and plastic pallets are all washed to the highest of standards, and the company was accredited to ISO 22000 earlier this year.

And while the company continues to grow in the provision of services, the direct sales arm, continues to thrive due largely to a newly focused sales effort. As well as existing product lines the company has recently been very active in purchasing stocks of second hand equipment such as metal roll cages or large plastic pallet boxes. This stock is sourced throughout the UK and may be from bankrupt stock, excess capacity or in conjunction with receivers.

An interesting application for used plastic pallet boxes was recently realised. The owner of an engineering company in Burton-on-Trent wished to send a number of personal artefacts to his home in Southern Africa, and rather than use custom-built and expensive packaging, he purchased a number of second-hand plastic pallet boxes for this purpose. As an additional bonus, he quickly sold the empty boxes at the other end for almost as much as he paid for them!