RPS was extremely proud to purchase their new premises late in 2012 at Maltby, near Middlesbrough. The new site has been a great investment for RPS and will allow the business to expand and develop further.
RPS, which was previously based at Ripon, held and official launch day at its new Teesside premises, after a strong, award-winning year in business. There has been plenty of hard work put in over the last 12 months to develop the site and RPS has had a lot of support from all of its staff and contractors.
Chairman of the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, Nigel Mills, officially opened the site by sawing through a length of timber rather than cutting the traditional ribbon.
RPS managing directors Gary Hudson and Tim Hutchinson were delighted that Nigel Mills opened the site on Friday 4th October.
Nigel Mills said: “RPS is an inspiration for the region; the region needs iconic people like Gary and Tim from RPS to look up to. It’s fantastic to see what been achieved here.”
National and international clients based in the region, including Huntsman Tioxide and Veolia, attended to enjoy a glass of champagne, canapés and a tour of the redeveloped site.
Thomas Hudson, marketing and communications manager at RPS, said: “It was a great honour for so many people to attend the event. Now in our eleventh year, we have grown from a small warehouse in Ripon with open three customers to a team of 17 with a turnover of £1.5M.”
The site has been transformed with a new meeting room, logistics office and pallet workshop being installed. The site has completely changed, and with RPS compliance of ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 RPS intends to continue to improve their surroundings to make the site a happy and safe place to work.
Earlier this year, RPS won a Gold award at the Let’s Recycle Zero Waste Awards for its pioneering work in achieving zero waste to landfill.
Thomas added: “It’s going to be an exciting next 12 months at RPS. We plan to expand our operational team by employing an apprentice, further strengthen our brand and also install a biomass boiler to continue our commitment towards being a zero waste business.”
