#ph pallets

We've just finished invested more than £40,000 into a new look for our brand to prepare us for future growth within the UK’s green economy. This is our latest round of inward investment as we targeting expansion within the UK’s robust green economy.

Green jobs and the growing number of green focused businesses are a bright sources of optimism in the UK’s static economy. Environmental and low-carbon business now makes up 8% of the UK’s GDP and has provided a third of the growth the UK economy has managed to squeeze out over the past few years (CBI report, The Colour of Growth: Maximising the Potential of Green Business). There are now nearly 1 million people employed in green jobs, from bio-fuels and electric car manufacturing to wind turbines and recycling. More than 25,000 jobs were created in 2011.

So, as well as the £40,000 new branding we've just finished a £150,000 upgrade of our Dukinfield (Manchester) operations unit, a £250,000 investment in a bespoke IT system to track every pallet that enters and leaves our premises and £100,000 on new fleet vehicles.

We've rolled out our new brand identity across premises, fleet, stationary, website and social media channels (including Twitter and right here on Tumblr!).

Here's the new logo - do you like?

And we've put it on our trucks - front and back...

And our website...

Mark, our partner in PH Pallets, says: “Our new identity better communicates our reputation, quality, service and ambitions. We’re a modern, technology-led, professional recycling company and our investment in re-branding is vital to our future growth.

“We’re in a great position to offer a trusted and valued service to our growing base of customers. In a struggling economy recycling makes absolute sense – it saves time, raw materials and costs – and nowadays most waste material is a commodity. Using waste wisely makes for good business and a strong economy, which is why we’ve been able to invest when other industries and businesses are tightening their belts.”

Last month the new EU Timber Regulation (EU NO 995/2010) came into force, which makes it an offence to place illegal timber or timber products on the EU market, and puts obligations on those who first place such products on the market, as well as those trading further down the supply chain.

The new regulation means there is a significantly smaller chance that the wood you use in your work is the result of illegal logging. The regulation has been put through to reduce the negative economic, environmental and social impact it can have on the many locations that timbre is sourced from.

Obviously this has consequences for wooden pallet manufacturers, recyclers and users but as long as you make sure you work with a reputable pallet management company, which has full sourcing, reporting and tracking protocol the regulations are nothing to be scared of.

The new regulation imposes the following obligations on those who trade timber and timber related products, like pallets:

'Operators' who first place timber or timber products on the European market must implement a due diligence system which incorporates information gathering, risk assessment and risk mitigation activities, in order to minimise the possibility that products they place on the market contain illegally harvested timber.

'Traders' who buy or sell timber or timber products which have already been placed on the market must maintain records of who supplied it to them, and, where applicable, to whom they have supplied the timber or timber products.

The Regulation applies to timber and timber products which originate in the domestic (EU) market, as well as those which originate from third (non-EU) countries.

So here we are! The difficult first post... We've got so much to say we don't quite know where to begin. A short introduction is probably the polite way to start our micro blogging.

We're a pallet management company based in the North West of England and our passion is recycling. We repair, sort, grade, collect, purchase, rebuild, purpose-build and heat-treat pallets.

On a weekly basis we handle around 30,000 pallets of all shapes and sizes in new, recycled and heat-treated formats. Nothing is wasted. Nothing goes to landfill.

We're well established with more than two decades of experience in the industry.

The purpose of this blog is to highlight issues about our industry and the humble pallet but also help you get to know us - what we like, love and do. If you use, re-use and recycle wood then hopefully you'll find this blog interesting and keep coming back...