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Perthshire Timber Company awarded Investor in People (IIP) status, and diversification into potato box manufacture.

Some four years ago Perthshire Timber Co. embarked on a new challenge to obtain Investor in People accrediation. We worked hard over a year before we were ready to be tested and accredited with this prestigeous award. We were presented with the award on 27th January 2006 by MP Pete Wishart who said “I am delighted to be here to present this award to you. I would like to congratulate you all on the achievement.”
Iain told Comment, “the business is operating in an extremely competitive market and therefore a high level of efficiency is essential. Modern machinery requires a highly skilled workforce and continuous training is necessary as modifications and improvements are made to the log lines".

"In this working environment there is a strong emphasis on health and safety. We are lucky to have such a good workforce. They are the reason we have been given this award”

Due to the current national and global downturn, we have been looking at ways of diversifying.
The obvious choice for us, which we are very excited about, is to return into making potato boxes, which we used to do some 20 years ago (Potato Farmers still have our boxes from over 2 decades ago which are still going strong).
Things have changed considerably since those days, and on the 15th November 1992 a British Standard, 'BS 7611:1992 - Specification for Potato storage boxes for mechanical handling', was published under the authority of the Standards Board, having been prepared under the direction of the Packaging and freight Containers Standards Policy Committee, at the request of the potato Marketing Board.
This British Standard BS 7611 is primarily concerned with ensuring that potato storage boxes, containing a nominal one tonne of potatoes, are sufficiently strong to withstand the loads and forces encountered when handled or when stacked. The height of block stacks in cold stores has risen over the years and potato storage boxes are typically stacked up to eight high. Three strength classes have been introduced: Class 8 high, Class 6 high and Class 4 high.