Palletline invests GBP 20m in new hub
Palletline has announced plans to invest GBP 20 million in new Central Hub premises on a 15-acre site in Solihull.
The operational systems planned for the new hub have been designed to enable the organisation to function more efficiently than any other palletised distribution network in the country, creating the systems and capacity to process more than 25,000 pallets in each 24-hour time window.
Palletline’s new hub will be the industry’s first drive-through, side-load operation.
An on-site quality control centre will consist of vehicle scanning lanes capable of processing eighty vehicles an hour and an undercover area for load checking. This system effectively separates quality control from sortation activities and enables implementation of rigorous freight checking procedures to achieve total traceability and service consistency.
Every vehicle coming onto the site will be issued with a data card to track its exact location, identifying every pallet on every vehicle and highlighting freight requiring prioritisation for meeting connections.
Web-based systems will be used to create ‘virtual bay’ facilities accessible to every member company, clearly highlighting volumes and consignment information.
The move will also secure Palletline’s expansion plans, yielding capacity for growth through to 2020, more than trebling existing pallet throughput capacity. Login or register to post.
