It’s been an incredibly busy quarter for the team working on The Pallet LOOP. Following the news in April that British Gypsum was to become the first customer to use LOOP’s circular economy pallets, our manufacturing teams worked flat out to make the first batch of pallets, spray them green, and ready the industry for rollout through the delivery of a concerted marketing and communications campaign.
In May, British Gypsum started to ship its bagged plaster on LOOP’s standard construction pallets – a move widely heralded across the UK construction industry including the government department DEFRA.
Eight weeks on from launch, more than 80,000 green LOOP pallets have been issued to British Gypsum. More are being shipped each week and, excitingly, pallets are now starting to come back from the sector – with pallet collection requests from merchants, principal contractors and housebuilders growing week on week up and down the country.
During July, The Pallet LOOP and Scott Pallets started shipping LOOP’s second pallet specification – the 2400 x 1200 plasterboard pallet – to British Gypsum. These supersized pallets are expected to roll out of British Gypsum’s plasterboard plants imminently and will be hard to miss given their size and colour.
This has been a huge team effort and an achievement that is being celebrated and talked about widely throughout the UK construction industry. As pallets continue to roll out for British Gypsum, the LOOP team is continuing to promote its pallet collections service, encouraging returns from across the building materials supply chain.
We are now in advanced-stage discussions with other building material manufacturers who want to go green. Watch this space for more LOOP news, coming soon and if you are out and about, keep your eyes peeled for LOOP pallets on a building site or at a merchant branch near you!
