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Goplasticpallets.com Announces New Key Account Sales Manager
GoPlasticPallets.com is pleased to announce the appointment of Esther Bussell in the new role of Key Account Sales Manager. Esther, who has worked in the pallet industry for over 13 years, brings her in-depth knowledge and experience of the pallet industry to GoPlasticPallets.
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Goplasticpallets.com takes recycling into its own hands at IMHX
This week Goplasticpallets.com – The Responsible Plastic Pallet Company – will be taking recycling into its own hands at IMHX, the UK’s largest intralogistics event, in support of Recycle Week 23-29 September, the annual celebration of recycling delivered by Recycle Now, whose theme this year is ‘Recycling: It’s in our own hands’.
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Reliable & Responsible Plastic Pallets
Jim Hardisty, MD of Goplasticpallets.com – The Responsible Plastic Pallet Company, explains why he feels that plastic still beats other packaging alternatives when used responsibly in a closed loop scenario.
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Plastic Packaging Tax drives more customers towards recycled plastic pallets
Goplasticpallets.com has witnessed a strong increase in demand for its recycled plastic pallets as customers take their environmental responsibilities more seriously. Government’s plans to introduce a ‘plastic tax’ on plastic packaging with less than 30 per cent recycled content has made the moral case for using recycled plastic pallets a business case as well, says Jim Hardisty, Managing Director of Goplasticpallets.com.
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GoPlasticPallets are pleased to announce that we’re Cyber Essentials Certified
Cyber Essentials aims to help organisations implement basic levels of protection against cyber-attacks. By partaking in the scheme, we are demonstrating to our customers that we take cyber security seriously. We have assessed ourselves against five basic security controls and a qualified assessor has verified the information provided.
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Reliable plastic pallets: The answer to your automation needs
The use of automation and robotics in the pharmaceutical industry is increasing rapidly. According to a new study by The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies ‘Robotics 2019: Innovation to Implementation’ deployment of robotics in North America in the life sciences/pharma segment reported a 31.3% increase in units shipped from 2017-2018. Across Europe too, as pharmaceutical manufacturers strive to remain competitive automation initiatives are being seen as a means to stimulate economic growth.
Managing Director, Jim Hardisty, explains the crucial role plastic pallets play in maintaining a smooth, hygienic and efficient production line in today’s increasingly automated laboratory environments.
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Goplasticpallets.com recycles 124 tonnes of plastic in 6 months
Goplasticpallets.com – The Responsible Plastic Pallet Company – has recorded staggering recycling figures for the first half of 2019. Since making its Recycling pledge in February this year, promising to recover and recycle all of the plastic pallets and boxes it supplies to customers, the company has recycled a tremendous 124 tonnes of plastic waste. This plastic waste includes used or unwanted plastic pallets, pallet boxes and smaller containers and trays, which are recovered by Goplasticpallets.com and taken to its partner’s recycling factory in Belgium. Here the products are washed together with domestic plastic waste, then ground into granules and reused to make the next wave of high quality long life plastic pallets and boxes.
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Super productive plastic
Jim Hardisty explains the crucial role plastic pallets play in maintaining a smooth, hygienic and efficient production line in today’s highly automated food processing plants.
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Potatoes ‘go’ fully automated thanks to Europe’s largest plastic pallet box
Goplasticpallets.com – The Responsible Plastic Pallet Company – has witnessed increased adoption of automation in the UK potato industry, much of this based around systems developed and implemented by Deprez Handling Solutions and using its GoPalletBox 1311S 3R – Europe’s largest plastic pallet box. Offering more than 35 years expertise in the development of integrated handling solutions, Deprez launched its first automated handling system in 2008 which allowed the company to double its capacity. With the retail food sector being one of the company’s main areas of focus, over the years Deprez observed that potato packers, in particular, were increasingly demanding immediate storage of their goods prior to packing.
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Our People, Our Culture
Goplasticpallets.com is a perfect example of a company that avidly invests in its people, which in the past 18 years has proven to greatly benefit both the business and its staff. Developing a positive workplace culture can improve teamwork, raise morale, increase productivity and efficiency and enhance retention of the workforce, and Goplasticpallets.com has done just that. From humble beginnings in 2001 with a team of just five, the company has successfully grown to become the UK’s leading independent supplier of plastic pallets and boxes, today employing 26 members of staff (plus three in senior management), who between them boast a total of 160 years’ service to the company.
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