PKL Receive Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Overseas Work

PKL is delighted to announce that the company has successfully received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the category for International Trade, for work supplying catering and healthcare products to worldwide markets.

 

The Queen’s Awards are the UK’s most prestigious awards for business performance and recognise and reward outstanding achievement by UK companies. The Awards are made each year by the Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister who is assisted by an Advisory Committee that includes representatives of Government, industry and commerce, and the trade unions.

This award represents a significant achievement for PKL and the company is proud to be receiving such a prestigious honour. On receiving the award, PKL Group’s Commercial Director, Peter Schad said:

“Receiving a Queens Award for Enterprise is a great honour for the company. The award recognises our achievements and the hard work undertaken by our staff. PKL really represents Britain at its best abroad!”

PKL Group (UK) Ltd has been trading since 1988 and is the world leader in the sale and rental of modular catering and healthcare systems. The company’s products, which include Portable Kitchens, heavy duty catering equipment and operating theatres are prefabricated in the UK and are quick and easy to export.

PKL’s worldwide export earnings have increased by over five times in three years with main markets including the Middle East, Asia and Africa. This has meant supplying and installing facilities in often dangerous and challenging conditions in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, DR Congo, Chad and Nigeria.

PKL has supplied to a wide number of major sporting events around the world including temporary dining facilities for the Athletes Village for the last three Olympic games at Sydney, Athens and Beijing, with each installation providing its own set of unique challenges, which the company has successfully overcome.

Within the UK, PKL is the leading supplier of temporary kitchens and catering equipment for hire, with over 900 Portable Kitchens and over 8,000 items of catering equipment in the company’s portfolio.

Rapid Reponse Systems

PKL can provide relocatable kitchens and support facilities for remote international sites. Our range of options includes containerised units, tented solutions, and modular System Kitchens as well as facilities composed from ex-rental portable kitchens.

Containerised Systems can have a design life of up to 25 years and consist of highly robust ISO rated units that can be used in isolation or in unison to construct a larger facility. The units are designed specifically for rapid deployment and provide a safe, robust and efficient environment, self powered if necessary, with onboard generators, water and waste tanks.

System Kitchens are modular buildings designed and built using the latest in off site construction techniques. A System Kitchen is fully relocatable and conforms to full construction standards and is ideally suited for longer-term solutions.

Tented solutions offer great value for money and are easily relocatable and although they are not as robust or long lasting as containerised units, their low cost and portability make them ideal for many situations, including dining rooms and stores.

Inflatable systems have many benefits including speed of erection with minimal labour and extremely high insulation values.

PKL has the largest fleet of portable kitchen units in the world. Where an extremely rapid delivery is required, projects can be delivered utilising kitchens and equipment drawn directly from the PKL fleet

We have an impressive record of delivering fast-track facilities to the world’s military forces as well as to major construction and oil exploration sites and for relief work.