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Crate rental specialist Pluscrates has invested more than £250,000 in new 7.5 tonne low emission vehicles for its central London Fleet. The move comes as part of the company’s preparations for tough new London Emission Zone (LEZ) regulations which come into affect in January 2013. The new LEZ regula...

Pluscrates has signed an exclusive three-year deal with Crown Relocations to supply crates throughout the UK and Ireland. The move comes following Crown’s continued growth in the commercial relocation sector. Pluscrates’ Managing Director, John Mitchell said, “Crown Worldwide Group is well known...

Lancashire-based moving specialist Whittle Group Ltd has appointed Pluscrates as sole supplier of crate hire services for its commercial moving business. The company made the decision based on positive feedback from others in the commercial moving industry and Pluscrates’ ability to deliver high-...

Crate rental company Pluscrates had a rather unusual client recently – a 200 million year-old dinosaur named Edmontaurus! Grace Kimble from London’s National History Museum needed to transport some of the dinosaur’s fragile bones to Dorset for a special exhibition in Lyme Regis and needed some very ...

A thank you letter, from a member of staff, received at Pluscrates Wembley head, office prompted a call to Midlands Regional Manager Ian Gilkes. Recruiting quality staff, training and retaining them is key to Pluscrates remarkable growth since inception in 2008. Promotion from within is self eviden...

Crate rental specialist Pluscrates has announced the opening of its new premises in Bristol; the new service centre located on the Cala Trading Estate opened its doors for business on 9 February. The move brings the total number of service centres in the UK to five and will enable the company to opt...

Pluscrates has added a library trolley with twice the capacity of other folding file trolleys on the market to its rental product range. The specialist library trolley is being supplied by Samson Cart and allows access and movement of up to six linear metres of books, files or storage media usin...

Following a 12 month absence, John Mitchell has returned to Pluscrates – the business he started with Neil McGuigan – and nearly four months on declares ‘it’s great to be back’. So what was John up to while he was away? “An eclectic mix of business and pleasure,” he says. “Most who know me in the...

Neil McGuigan is no stranger to BAR (British Association of Removers). His parents, Gordon and Doris McGuigan, founded Rentacrate in the early 1970’s, Neil founded Eurocrate in the mid 1980’s and during his tenure as managing director, Eurocrate became the first major BAR conference sponsor at the M...

Pluscrates has launched a unique product feature that offers a solution to the age-old stacking problems involved when using both large and compact standard IT crates used in office removals. The feature allows both IT6 and the smaller IT3 crates to be stacked together for safe transit and optimum s...