Daily deliveries into Plymouth on our own fleet: your local Plymouth pallet supplier for new pallets, bespoke crates & export packaging, made in Devon.
Plymouth gets a lorry from us every weekday, over the moor on the A386 or round by the A30 and A38. What it carries is built at our 300,000 sq ft factory in Bideford: new pallets for the estates at Estover and Langage, and the heavy, awkward cases the city’s marine and defence work keeps asking for.
Braced timber crates for marine components, built to be craned as well as forked.
Skid-based cases for plant and engineered assemblies leaving the city.
Lighter, collapsible cases where defence and precision parts travel and come back.
For medical devices, electronics and instruments that must not take a knock.
FC0542-marked pallets for loads crossing from Millbay to France and Spain.
Volume pallets for Estover, Langage and Ernesettle, on a schedule.
Also made at Bideford: bespoke wooden pallets, used pallets, bespoke wooden crates, export crates, osb crates, plywood crates, slatted timber crates, server rack crates, hybrid packaging, export packaging, export packing services, contract packing, cardboard packaging and packaging and consumables. We also collect and recycle used pallets on our South West runs.
We run into Plymouth on the A386 over the moor, or the A30 and A38 when the load suits it. Deliveries go anywhere in the city and out to the industrial areas: Estover, Langage, Ernesettle, Faraday Mill and the Plymouth Science Park.
Everything is loaded at our Bideford factory and delivered by our own drivers. For the oversized, one-off cases Plymouth’s marine and defence engineering tends to need, that is the difference between a delivery that happens and a pallet network that refuses the booking.
Plymouth has its own ferry port at Millbay, with sailings to France and Spain, and marine, defence and precision manufacturers who ship worldwide. Pallets and crates crossing on the ferry, or going on to a container port, need the ISPM 15 mark like any other export.
Pallets bound for Millbay are treated in our own kilns at Bideford and marked FC0542 before they leave the yard. Marine and defence crates are built from timber that arrives already heat treated, and we mark the finished case under the same registration, so the paperwork and the stamp match.
Read what affects the cost of heat treated pallets, UK pallet sizes and load ratings and ISPM 15 explained, or see our heat-treated pallets.
Plymouth is one of the country’s major marine engineering centres. Marine components are heavy and irregular, and often corrosion-sensitive, bespoke timber crates with internal bracing, and cases that can be craned rather than forked.
Defence work brings its own packing standards, serial-numbered items and traceability. We build to drawing and to specification, and our ISO 9001 quality system covers the process.
Plymouth’s ferry links to Roscoff and Santander put mainland Europe within a day. Timber packaging crossing a border needs ISPM 15 heat treatment: we treat pallets in our own kilns, build crates from heat-treated timber and mark under FC0542.
Medical devices, electronics and instrumentation need shock protection rather than brute strength. Shock pallets and foam-lined hybrid packaging take the vibration out of the journey.
Yes: regularly, on our own fleet from Bideford, covering Plymouth, Saltash, Plympton and Ivybridge.
Yes. Heavy and oversized is normal work for us. Send the dimensions, the weight and how it needs to be lifted, and we will design a case around it, including skid bases, and lifting provision where the load needs it.
Solid timber packaging leaving the UK for the EU must be ISPM 15 heat-treated and marked. Plywood and processed board are exempt. If you are unsure which applies, call us, it is a short conversation and getting it wrong stops the shipment.
Yes. We collect surplus and used pallets on the same fleet that delivers, so an empty run back to Devon does not go to waste.
Our fleet also runs into Saltash, Plympton, Ivybridge, Tavistock, Torpoint and Yelverton. If you are outside Plymouth, call 01237 423772 and we will tell you straight whether you are on a route.
Other areas: Torbay · North Devon · Exeter · Bodmin · Truro · all delivery areas
Tell us what you need, with sizes, weight and quantity if you have them, and we will come back with a design, a price and a date.
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