CHEP extension

CHEP has renewed its contract with Norbert Dentressangle. The logistics player's relationship with CHEP began in 2005 when it was appointed to manage the company's service centre in Dunstable.

In 2009, the companies invested around £4 million in the opening of a new service centre to replace the Dunstable facility.

The centre, in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, consists of a 2,200 sq metre plant building and a six-acre yard, which can hold 173,000 pallets.

It is one of CHEP's largest service centres in Europe, in terms of throughput and employs a workforce of over 150 people.

As the partnership continues into the second year at the new centre, Norbert Dentressangle will invest an additional £300k in automated pallet stencilling equipment.