Specialist Equipment Management Companies based conveniently in the Midlands continue to promote their crate rental arm across a breadth of industries all over the UK.
The company has been offering plastic crate rental for a number of years; however an important facet of their business model is what they refer to as the “total management option”. This involves renting clients plastic crates, managing them via the company’s own Enable online asset tracking system, arranging the retrieval of the equipment from third parties, washing or sterilising it at their industrial wash site, before returning the crates to the equipment pool, ready for re-use.
The food sector has been and continues to be a major area of importance to experts for crate rental. But why would anyone, let alone some of professional companies’ blue chip customers rent crates rather than simply buy them outright?
Quite simply the answer is Management.
Management of equipment that is – the use of plastic crates as a returnable transit carrier continues to replace one-way trip cardboard packaging. The traditional mindset with packing is that you have paid for the packaging, along with the goods it carries or protects. So, cardboard boxes are either disposed of, or used by the receiver to store goods or perhaps for secondary deliveries.
Obviously however, returnable packaging must be returned for further re-use otherwise the medium is not cost-effective. This is where the experts come in with their crate rental services and, as they take responsibility for the retrieval of the equipment it means there is no opportunity for potential conflict between supplier and customer in the event of lost or damaged equipment.
