PennWhite’s New Storage & Dispatch Facility is Open
After a month of hard work by a team of contractors and our own personnel, the new PennWhite Warehouse & Dispatch Facility opened for business on 2nd February. Over 800 additional pallet spaces, automated filling equipment and additional decanting stations will help the business to serve its growing customer base over the coming years.
Since moving to the Midpoint 18 Business Park less than five years ago, the business has doubled in size, both in terms of turnover and square meters. Managing Director John Whitehead believes that “Our growth has been built on the faith and trust shown in PennWhite by our customers. Our investment in this new facility represents our commitment to maintaining and continually improving our service levels in response to their needs and expectations.”
PennWhite Racks Up Storage
Racking for our finished goods is going up in our new storage and dispatch facility and over 800 pallet spaces will be avaialble once installation is complete. Managing Director John Whitehead explained the main reason for increasing PennWhite’s storage capacity, “Our business is built on service, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide the solution to our customers need’s exactly when they need it. This new facility means that we can carry more key products in stock and get them to the customer faster than ever before.”
PennWhite and the Big Crane
With a little help from a 40 tonne crane our new 35,000 ltre water tank is now in position in our new storage and dispatch facility in Middlewich. After being commisioned it will provide a more effiecient on-demand water supply to our adjacent production unit.
PennWhite Take Delivery
Our soon to open new finished goods storage and dispatch facility recieved its first deliveries earlier this week. Getting the first, a 6m tall 35,000 litre water tank, off the lorry took a little coordinated fork lift trucking but it’s now sitting on the floor and will be raised into position in the next few days. Our new racking was a little easier tooffload and will give us an additional 815 pallet spaces for finished goods once assembled.
Other new equipment, including an automated multipoint filler for our food-grade products, will be arriving soon and we expect to open the new facility for business by the end of the month.
PennWhite’s New Storage & Dispatch Facility
In January 2015 PennWhite will take possession of its adjacent business unit on the Midpoint 18 Business Park in Middlewich. This will double our current floor space to over 4,000 sqm, allowing us to increase finished goods storage capacity and bring our despatch team back under the same roof as their production and administration colleagues.
“Improved process efficiency and customer service are the motivation”, according to Warehouse Manager Phil Hallam. “The extra space will allow for the installation of new automated plant and a higher level of ex-stock availability. Communication will also be better as we will all be in the same building again”
Our current “satellite” finished goods warehouse (a smaller unit on the same business park), will be closed as soon as the new facility is up and running, which we expect to be by early February 2015.