Neill & Brown invests in new facility as pallet business grows

Neill & Brown Global Logistics has spent £90,000 on a new transit warehouse.

The warehouse at its headquarters in Hessle, near Hull, has been designed to accomodate double-decker trailers and will be used for loading and unloading pallets bound for both the UK and Ireland.

The warehouse will handle anything from shipments of single pallets to multi-pallet consignments for next-day to economy delivery. It can cope with up to 200 pallets a night, which are taken to the United Pallet Network hub at Fradley Park, Lichfield.

Last year Neill & Brown opened a £2.5m, 40,000ft² international warehouse at Marfleet Environment Technology Park on Heldon Road, east Hull.

It followed an earlier investment at the site in 2011, when it joined forces with chemical company Nippon Gohsei to develop a facility for the storage and distribution of the company's Soarnol product around Europe.

Colin Moody, Neill & Brown's MD, said: "The new transit warehouse has been introduced following the success of our pallet business to improve control of the increasing number of pallets we are handling."

Image: (From left) Colin Moody, MD and Carl Andrew, logistics director with a double-deck trailer in their new transit warehouse.