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Staff levels have risen from about 25 at the time of the move, to almost 50 now. As Managing Director Richard Dyson says, ‘Not everything can be automated’, however automation is where much of the investment has gone. Currently the bottle-filling lines are about to undergo a 50% increase in capacity with new production equipment being installed.
A pallet load can be filled and stacked in around 30 minutes, consisting of 5 litre containers, 1 litre angle-necks, and 750 ml trigger-sprays aimed largely at the Catering, Housekeeping, and Washroom markets. Beginning two years ago, Greyland has moved over to utilising as much recycled plastics in its product containers as possible; currently it is around 75% recycled materials.
Richard explained: "We are of course very much in the hands of the bottle manufacturers and the technological advances they can make. But with support from companies like ourselves who are prepared to be early investors, they will eventually succeed in producing 100% recycled materials that are satisfactory for our purposes and better for the planet."
Labelling was one of the initial, key factors in driving forward the prosperity of the company, and naturally Greyland continues to make great strides in this regard, with anti- fade, wet resistant, more durable labels than can be expected from many trade competitors, printed in-house with state of the art equipment, able to augment standard information with key images as well as guiding pictograms to indicate acidity/alkalinity ratios, as well as a new visible coding system for improved stock control.
Greyland is ISO 9001 and 14001 compliant, long valued members of green network, CHSA, UK Cleaning Products Industry Association and British Safety Council.
The company has not quite come around full circle yet, as Greyland are currently looking to expand its warehousing capability, which at present is 'tight but right', and with the soon to be expected 50% increase in capacity with the new filling lines, logjams are best prevented, rather than being dealt with afterwards.
There are a number of options available, but you can be sure that an announcement will be made very soon.
Here's to the next 20 years!
www.greyland.co.uk
www.tomorrowscleaning.com
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