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RPS is now in its final stages of accreditation for ISO 14001, enforcing its environmental awareness. RPS’s environmental management system has been built using the expertise and knowledge gained from nine years of operation. The core business of recovery helps to reduce the amount of new wooden pallets and transit packaging entered into the UK […]

RPS has secured the contract for a major food distributor collecting empty pallets from their four UK distribution centres. The company, based in the north of England, purchases foodstuffs and ingredients from manufacturers who then supply the UK’s food market. The contract that began on the 10th Jan 2011 is worth an estimated 50,000 pallets […]

RPS, in collaboration with drum re-conditioning specialists Pack2Pack, recently recovered and returned over 1000 pallets for secondary use with the industrial sector. Regular and cost effective pallet collections are viewed by Pack2Pack as an essential service to free up external storage space at their Avonmouth site. Following the initial clearance Pack2Pack will look to implement […]

On the 5th November RPS kindly donated a full truck load of redundant pallets to Bedale Bonfire Committee to help make their night go with a bang! The committee have thanked RPS for their kind contribution and said that the bonfire was a great success, keeping the crowds warm while watching their fantastic fireworks display. […]

In March 2010 timcon reported the rocketing price of timber, having repercussions on increased new pallet prices to cover manufacturer’s costs. As timber attributes to up to 75% of the overall new pallet price RPS have strived to keep any new pallet costs to a minimum for its customers. During October, as part of ongoing […]

Using RPS expertise to realise best cost supply chain management, Vinnolit have switched from their standard pallet footprint to a heat treated CP9 pallet. This has enabled the business to increase payloads for deep sea shipments to North America, a potential rise from 18te to 20te. This pallet initiative contributed to reducing both freight rates […]