Palletline Opens Doors at New Central Hub

This week saw Palletline Plc commence operations from the company's new central hub premises in Solihull, south of Birmingham, achieving a total pallet throughput of over 10,000 in the first 24 hours, working with a unique and advanced operational model underlining Palletline's position at the leading edge of the pallet distribution sector.

Alongside more than trebling pallet throughput capacity, the new hub brings together a highly efficient operating model based around total quality control. Palletline is the first palletised distribution network to operate a drive-through, side-load operation, successfully achieving total depedestrianisation and realising Health & Safety standards well beyond the requirements of legislation covering the palletised distribution sector.

Each and every vehicle bringing freight to site passes twice through advanced vehicle scanning lanes in a purpose-built quality control centre, undergoing rigorous freight checking procedures to achieve total traceability and service consistency.

Massive investment in technological improvements will also see the implementation of a data card system to track vehicle and individual pallet location, facilitating efficient prioritisation of freight, as well as the introduction of web-based 'virtual bay' systems providing total transparency in terms of volume and consignment information for Palletline Member Companies nationwide.

Commenting for Palletline, Managing Director Kevin Buchanan professed himself delighted with the launch of the new facility. "The Palletline team has worked hard over the past 12 months to design a totally new freight management system built around the aspiration to operate the safest and most efficient hub in the sector," he stated. "Smooth implementation of the new model has been achieved from Day 1 by careful planning and detailed staff and driver training programmes. I am confident that our new facility will go from strength to strength, underpinning our expansion plans through to 2020 and our position as the market leader in high quality palletised distribution."