International pallet company PGS Group has launched its first UK facility in the port town of Grays, Essex to process second-hand pallets.
The French-Belgian business has opened a facility exclusively for pallet rental business La Palette Rouge (LPR).
This site employs 70 people and processing 2.8m pallets each year and covers 16,000m² (c.170,000ft²), running 24/7.
PGS currently operates in 13 countries, including France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Portugal, Ukraine, Latvia, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Morocco.
The PGS team will now focus on collecting, identifying and sorting pallets for reuse and export, with those requiring repair treated to the ISPM15 standard.
PGS Group CEO Luc Grauwet said: “This new site is a logical next step in our collaboration with LPR. It will give us access to an important market and also to new logistics and operational opportunities that strengthen our European position.”
