Pallet Matters April 2010
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Pallet Matters April 2010 | Wednesday 14th April 2010 |
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Pallet pooling giant CHEP has signed a five year deal with British Sugar. The agreement, valued at £800,000 per annum, will involve switching the company’s internal yellow pallet pool over to the CHEP system. As part of Associated British Foods (ABF), to which CHEP already supplies some 900,000 pallets a year, British Sugar expects substantial cost savings to be brought about by the outsourcing of administration and equipment repair and replacement. In addition, with CHEP pallets enjoying a life-cycle of up to ten years, both companies expect environmental benefits and look forward to further cooperation.
A low cost solution to the common and often costly matter of damage caused to loaded pallets by lift truck forks has been launched by Jayline Products. Manufactured in the UK from heavy duty rubber mouldings, the load protectors are designed to fit the upright rear section of the forks and absorb the impact of the palletised goods being loaded. The company claims that return on investment, particularly in sectors where high value goods are handled, is almost immediate and long term savings assured.
Leading pallet racking systems specialist Link 51 has completed one of its largest ever installations at Tesco’s new distribution centre in Middlesborough. The non-food storage area of the site covers about half of the site’s million square feet and Link 51’s racking provides seven levels of storage over 69 aisles with 56,000 pallet positions able to accommodate some 10,000 individual electrical, home ware and cook shop lines. The site operates 24 hours a day with 60% of goods coming from the docks nearby, the remainder arriving by road.
The ‘Broken Pallet’ for March goes to the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, whose apparently generous decision to ‘phase in’ the planned fuel duty increase in small increments is less of a boon that it appears. The loss of the biofuel differential will, according to the Freight Transport Association (FTA), mean a hike in the price of diesel and may herald the arrival of the £1.30 litre at the pumps. The staggered increase will, according to James Hookham, Policy and Communications Managing Director of the FTA, merely delay the inevitable increase in this fundamental business cost.
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