UPL has officially opened its brand new Grangemouth Service Centre where it will inspect and repair an estimated 4 million CHEP pallets per annum.
This new facility will operate on a 3 shift basis and employ over 70 workers. New “state of the art” machinery has been installed and UPL and CHEP’s considerable knowledge and experience in the area of efficient pallet inspection and repair operations has been used in designing the plant layout and machinery.
Unit Pallets was established in 1968 and operates from a ten acre site in Golborne, Warrington and a new site at Grangemouth opened in June 2009 solely for inspecting and repairing pallets. The Company has a policy of investing in high quality machinery, drying and timber stock so as to provide a professional and efficient service to its customers.
Unit Pallets
Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of James
Jones & Sons Limited (www.jamesjones.co.uk).
James Jones is one of the leading U.K.
sawmilling groups and has a policy of
reinvestment in its business so as to provide
the highest levels of quality and service to
customers. This policy is evident in the
continuous investment in Unit Pallets Limited,
which has resulted in the latest technology in
new pallet assembly lines, including two state of the art CAPE automated pallet assembly lines, effective heat treatment and
kiln drying facilities, automated repair
operations and recycling plant.
Timber
pallets are a vital component in the handling,
storage and distribution system. Timber in
pallet manufacture is an ideal raw material
because it is reusable, repairable, recyclable
and very cost-effective. All softwood used in
pallet manufacture is sourced from properly
managed sustained sources.
Heat
Treatment and Drying Kilns
Unit Pallets Limited was the first manufacturer of pallets in the UK to offer Kiln Dried pallets. The company has recently installed a further two BES Bollman Kiln which has taken the number of on-site kilns to four, including three high capacity and highly efficient BES Bollman Kilns, increasing the company’s pallet drying capacity to the highest in the UK. We now have the capacity to heat treat and/or dry all newly manufactured or repaired pallets, and can heat treat/kiln dry customers' pallets, packaging and timber.
Unit Pallets
Limited is one of the world's leading
manufacturers of timber pallets.
Newly
Manufactured Pallets (50,000 per
week)
Inspecting/repairing 120,000 pallets per week at the 2 sites Golborne and Grangemouth.
Unit Pallets also operate a Total Pallet Management Facility on behalf of Chep for the Tesco Distribution Centre at Livingston.
Substantial Heat Treatment and
Drying of New and Repaired
Pallets
Comprehensive Delivery
Service
Automated manufacturing and
highest quality standards.
Unit Pallets Ltd Supplies major
customers and pallet pools who require a first
class product with minimum life cycle costs, and
comprehensive service including heat treatment and drying of
pallets.
Unit Pallets Ltd is accredited to ISO 9001 - 2008 and UIC 435-2 EPAL Euro Pallet. Also a member of the UK Wood Packaging and Material Marketing Programme to supply ISPM15 compliant heat treated (HT) pallets. (Licence No. GB.FC002)
Unit Pallets are also accredited to the FSC Chain of Custody and our number is
TT-COC-002919.
A Group Company of James Jones and Sons Ltd.
Epal is a trade mark of the European Pallet Association e.V
Collective CTM 472415 and Certification Mark GB 2528337.and Certification Mark IE 2009/01881.
