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HEP has been operating in central & eastern Europe since 1998 and is growing strongly in the region with existing operations in the
Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey. CHEP central & eastern Europe president, Rodney Francis, said: “This is a strategic move in response to the needs of our customers. The supply- chain environment in central & eastern Europe is rapidly modernising and most fast-moving consumer goods companies are now using pallets for shipments. As a result, our customers are asking us to offer them the service and quality of equipment they enjoy in Western Europe. “Many multinational companies have made the decision to move operations into Central & Eastern Europe using the CHEP pallet pooling system after struggling with the inefficiencies and high costs of the white wood pallet exchange system. Through this expansion we can respond to our customers’ needs with enhanced services to help improve their operational efficiencies and reduce their supply-chain costs – at the same time as providing the
additional environmental benefits of CHEP’s reusable system.
“Entering these seven countries will allow CHEP to strengthen its strategic partnerships with major global customers in the fast-moving consumer goods, produce and retail sectors, as well as to serve domestic customers in the fullness of time.” CHEP will also deploy local resources in each new country of operation to implement best practices and manage local customers’, retailers’ and service providers’ pallet usage.
State-of-the-art facility
In a separate move to further enhance its facilities on mainland Europe, CHEP has invested €2 million in redesigning its Tiel service centre in the Netherlands to ensure maximum operational efficiency. Now a state-of- the-art facility, it will make a significant contribution to delivering product quality and improved customer service, whilst also underpinning CHEP’s wider sustainability strategy. The refurbishment includes the complete overhaul of the centre’s machinery with new equipment to increase levels of automation and efficiency.
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Covering an area of 30,000m2 emissions by at least
CHEP, a leader in pallet and container pooling services, has announced plans to expand its operations – currently in 23 European countries – to cover seven additional countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia in the Balkans, and the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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employing in excess of 70 staff, the Tiel plant is the most centralised CHEP service centre in The Netherlands and will play a key role in the issue, return and reconditioning of pallets within the company’s Benelux pool. It is expected to handle the movement of at least 3.5 million pallets per year. Tiel will also play a key part in helping CHEP reach its objective of reducing CO2
20% by 2012 and will adopt CHEP’s standard best practice of recycling waste materials with damaged wood being reused as wood chip. In recognition of this achievement, Connekt – a sustainable logistics programme supported by the Dutch government – has presented its Sustainable Logistics Lean & Green award to CHEP.
Commenting on this, CHEP EMEA director of sustainability, Dr. Juan José Freijo, said: “CHEP’s pooling activity is an intrinsically sustainable solution, compared with alternatives such as disposable or white wood exchange pallets, and we are striving to make sustainability an integral part of everything we do.” ●
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