New Icelandic salmon farm introduces PPS’s reusable boxes

PPS East of Grimsby are delighted to announce that they have secured business from a new Icelandic salmon farm, which has decided to transport whole salmon to the UK for processing in PPS’s 25kg plastic reusable boxes. From an office and warehousing facilities in Reykjavik, PPS East has been supplying and managing plastic reusable fresh fish boxes, tubs and pallets to Icelandic fish producers and exporters for the past 2 years and see this business gain as a very positive step forward. In acquiring a totally new customer, this has not only expanded its Icelandic business, but also shows other salmon companies that there is alternative packaging solution compared to traditional expanded polystyrene boxes. Fresh fish producers pack fillets and loins into 15kg sized boxes for delivery back to the UK, where PPS East retrieve the boxes for hygienic washing at their BRC accredited site in Grimsby. In order to secure the new business, PPS East and the customer set up an initial box trial, so that salmon on arrival in the UK was inspected for quality, temperature and ice coverage. The results were successful with reports showing that the protection, quality, temperature and freshness of the salmon on arrival at the fish processor was equal, if not better than the salmon delivered in the ‘single-use’ poly boxes. Therefore, PPS boxes were introduced into the supply chain for other salmon deliveries. The design of the reusable box offers additional benefits as when empty, they can nest inside each other so that more boxes can be delivered and stored, saving much needed transport and factory space. Also, PPS reusable boxes are slightly shorter in height than polystyrene boxes, so when full of fresh salmon, extra boxes can be stacked per pallet, thus increasing the product capacity per vehicle.