Contract Catering Equipment Hire in the NHS

PKL supplied the Alexandra Hospital in Worcestershire with a complete catering estate with the capability to provide up to 4 million meals per year. The hospital was supplied through PKL’s KitchenFM – a turnkey service offering an attractive, cost effective alternative to buying catering equipment. The tailor-made kitchens were up and running just six weeks after the initial order.

With PKL installing, managing and maintaining the catering estate at the Alexandra, the Trust management are free to concentrate on the day-to-day running of the hospital and focus on looking after patients.

Through KitchenFM, catering equipment is supplied capital free, with the hospital paying a fixed, off-balance-sheet monthly payment. The catering equipment was supplied by PKL direct to the NHS trust and was delivered and installed within 6 weeks of receiving the initial order.

To read more about our installation at the Alexandra Hospital and for further infortmation regarding the wide range of catering equipment and Portable Kitchens for hire offered by PKL please click here.

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.

Industrial Catering Equipment Manuals for Free Download

PKL has launched a new section on our website providing free downloads of catering equipment manuals.

The pages include equipment manuals and operating instructions for items of commercial catering equipment, including commercial 6-burners, microwaves, dishwashers, combination ovens, bratt pans, industrial fridge/freezers and food preparation equipment.

The new section includes service and operating manuals for a number of commercial catering equipment manufacturers including Meiko, Falcon, Electrolux, Falcon, Williams Hobart and Angelo Po.

To view the page and download the manuals, click on the following link, www.pkl.co.uk/foodservices/catering-equipment-manuals.asp

Commercial Kitchen Design Services

PKL have provided 1000s of commercial kitchen designs for a wide range of end users in both the public and private sectors. Our experienced in house team can provide clients with a wide range of commercial kitchen designs, ranging from single portable units, large open plan temporary facilities, large scale temporary facilities for events, permanent modular kitchen buildings and kitchen design layouts for existing permanent buildings.

Our design service covers:

• A full knowledge of commercial kitchen design and planning regulations
• Site visit if required to overcome design issues
• Provision of CAD kitchen designs
• Full consultation through kitchen design process to ensure facility meets exact requirements
• Full adherence to health and safety requirements

PKL Launch the KitchenPod iMAG

We have recently launched the KitchenPod iMAG an innovative new electronic brochure which provides information on the KitchenPod, a school kitchen in an instant from PKL.

As well a being an interactive guide to the KitchenPod, the iMAG provides a wealth of information to schools or local authorities, wishing to gain information on how to gain funding for new school kitchens, school kitchen refurbishments and new school catering estates, as well as cost effective routes to procurement once they are ready to proceed.

You are able to flick through the iMAG on your computer as you would a normal magazine, with the advantage that you can store it easily on your desktop.

For more information, click the following link to launch the iMAG.

http://www.pkl.co.uk/pkl-ebrochure.html

Permanent School Kitchen and Dining Facilities from PKL

If you are looking to build new kitchen and dining facilities as part of your school's BSF programme, PKL supply permanent modular buildings fully equipped to your specification.

System Kitchens from PKL, are permanent modular buildings constructed off site to your exact requirements. The use off offsite construction techniques means that overall construction time can be greatly reduced, as construction takes place simultaneously with work on site. In addition, as your new kitchen is being manufactured under factory controlled conditions, it less affected by unknown variables and allows a greater control over build costs.

Our team of in house designers can produce a facility to meet your exact requirements while you can specify catering facilities from our range of over 8000 items of equipment.

Once constructed, the System Kitchen is delivered to site, the modules linked and the facility commissioned by our in house team of engineers.

System Kitchens are also specified for Hub / Central Production units which are used to provide hot school meals for a number of schools in one area.

Fore more information about PKL's complete range of solutions for the education sector, click here or email postbox@pkl.co.uk

Temporary Kitchens for School Refurbishments

With many schools either about to receive, or already receiving Building Schools for the Future or Primary Capital Program funding, many establishments will be looking at upgrading their kitchen buildings, equipment and dining rooms.

PKL provides a range of Temporary Kitchens and Dining Facilities enabling schools to carry on serving food with minimal disruption during times of refurbishment. Our facilities range from standalone Portable Kitchen units to linked kitchen units and dinning facilities which are able to provide meals and seating for hundreds of pupils in one sitting.

In addition, PKL can also supply temporary Portable Kitchen facilities for construction companies working on school site upgrades.

PKL is a Buying Solutions accredited supplier, enabling public sector and government departments to purchase or hire products through the company, safe in the knowledge that they are Fully Compliant" with UK and EU legislation and statutory legislation. Buying solutions are committed to creating cost and process savings to end users by leveraging public sector buying power. Buying Solutions accredited companies are pre tendered to supply Public Sector organisations within the UK.

Click here for more information regarding PKL Group's complete range of catering solutions for the education sector.