Gloucester, UK: ISD Solutions has signed a distribution contract with Salco, a Dutch high performance door manufacturer.
The moves is aimed at expanding its market for high-bay, temperature controlled warehouse doors. Driven by the UK’s exit from the EU and growth in online food retail, the current investment value in high-bay warehousing in the UK is worth around £500million a year, likely to double by 2022.
The two companies, which have worked together on projects in the UK and Australia, have signed a deal for supply and installation as well as service and maintenance. Tony Wall, managing director the P & M Group (which trades as ISD Solutions) said: “The huge upsurge in demand for fully automated high bay freezer warehouses has been driven by Brexit and growth in online food retail due to the pandemic.
“A combination of harder border control and the demands of Covid-19 has changed the face of the food retail industry, fast-forwarding growth in the warehousing sector. We think this trend is going to continue.
“We’ve worked with Salco on various projects before – they’re a similar size of business to us and they wanted a financially stable, experienced distributor, based in the UK to work with on existing and ongoing projects both here and abroad.
“Our infrastructure and network of trained operatives gives us, and them, great confidence in our ability to provide customers with the full range of cold store services, from planning to installation and maintenance.”
With the current economic climate, and more technological advances being introduced to the UK cold chain, automated high-bay warehouses are on the rise in the retail market.
Reduced oxygen levels help reduce fire risk and also reduce energy requirements. These advanced projects require specialist doors which can be integrated in the automated system and perform in various temperatures above and below freezing.
