POTATO HYGIENE - DOLAVS PART OF HIGH CARE SECURITY
Preparing the potatoes for grading
Bennett Potatoes at Scawby, near Brigg, Lincolnshire supplies a wide variety of size- and weight-graded potatoes to the catering, wholesale and export markets, as well as providing fresh pack for…more...
More payload, less weight and cost with Dolav ACE
"No need for insulated boxes in our high speed unbroken cool chain," says Michael Lodahl at Danske Fiskeauktioner (DFA) in Jutland, Denmark. DFA has invested in 832 Dolav Ace plastic pallet boxes.…more...
Dolav ACE Passes Acid Test
900Kgs of lead acid batteries being emptied with fork lift truck
Sims Metal Management is the world's biggest metals and electronics recycler working from 260 locations on five continents. Its South Wales region handles some 80 tonnes, nearly 4,500, of used…more...
Dolavs handle juice fruit for 25 years
Salvatori is the UK's longest established processing fruit trader. It has been handling top fruit in the Canterbury area for more than 80 years and using the same Dolav plastic pallet boxes…more...
Dolavs prove their long-life over 30 years
30 years old and still going strong!
Peake Fruit* grows, stores, grades and packs English apples and soft fruit. It has been doing that for over 70 years and for nearly half that time it has harvested and stored apples in…more...
Dolav Ace Design Hygienic
Dolav 1000 ACE confirmed as being of hygienic design when within Food Safety Guidelines.
Campden BRI has confirmed the Dolav Ace is hygienically designed when tested against recognised protocols. Dolav submitted the Ace to Campden BRI for independent hygienic design assessment.…more...
Keeping it clean and profitable with Dolav plastic pallet boxes
Dolav ACE being tipped on a forklift
Stafford Bye Products (SBP) maintains Category 3 hygiene standards when processing animal by-products for pet-food companies. It collects by-products from some twelve abattoirs and animal…more...
Dolavs Show Their Beef
Filled Dolavs
Belfast-based Duncrue Food Processors has used Dolavs for ten years for daily collection of its raw material, animal fat from processors, to make premium-quality beef dripping. With some 30-40…more...
Tried, Tested And Proven Wins At Cranswick
Dolavs at Cranswick with hot die stamped identification
When Cranswick Convenience Foods in Barnsley wanted a plastic pallet box they ordered the one which they knew well. Cranswick have been using Dolav plastic pallet boxes for over 15 years. Made…more...
Dolav expands export success fuels investment and growth
Dolav manufacturing site
Plastic pallet box maker, Dolav is investing $25m in factory expansion due to complete in 2013 at its factory site southern Israel. From there, Dolav manufactures and distributes to 40…more...
Factory roof solar helps Dolav make containers
Dolav has replaced ten percent of factory electricity with clean solar power. This plastic pallet box maker now capitalises on Israel’s abundant sunshine with 2000 solar panels on 4000 sq.…more...
Green Dolavs Help Save Energy
Waste ice being collected in green Dolavs.
Hull-based Smales, one of the UK's leading suppliers of fish and seafood, now has an almost zeroenergy, cost-saving, waste ice melting process. In this, the green-coloured Dolav Ace plays a vital…more...
Coleslaw From White Cabbage With No Waste
Packed Whole White Cabbage
Irish market gardener, Brophy Produce, supplies white cabbage to a coleslaw processor in blue Dolav plastic pallet boxes. The boxes are fitted with liners and are on a continuous loop bringing…more...
Containers Stack-Up
Filled Dolavs at Keebles
Plastic Dolav pallet boxes are new at Essex paper recycler, Keeble. They have been recycling paper for more than one hundred years. The company collects paper, mainly from printers, sorts and…more...
Potatoes in Plastic Dolavs
Dolav is delighted to have been selected as the supplier of plastic pallet boxes used in a pivotal part of the supply chain to transport raw material to the processing lines for McCain Foods' frozen…more...
Dolavs bring in the harvest
Hand picked grapes carefully emptied into Dolavs read for roadside collection.
The vineyards on the Luxembourg banks of the river Moselle are still covered in mist when the harvest activities commence in the early hours of the morning. A recurring process which takes…more...
Industrial Producer Picks Dolav Box
Safely stack 9 high - no need for racking
"A good straight-sided bin of 1200x1000 pallet size that is stable when stacked nine or ten high," says Alvin Doak at Cirrus Plastics in Portadown, Northern Ireland of his Dolav pallet boxes. He…more...
Kelloggs Recycling Success
Kelloggs ACE being emptied of plastic packaging
Kellogg's Manchester product-packing factory has achieved a significant waste reduction and recycling success. They are well on track to achieve zero landfill target by 2015 - or even…more...
Dolav Precision Pallet Takes The Load
MV1000 precision pallet in use at Teva's high spec, high tech hub
The right pallet is essential for high spec, high tech, automated handling.A 1200x1000mm, heavy-duty precision pallet, engineered to easily take heavy loads in high-bay, narrow aisle, automated…more...
Dolav box now winchable
Dolav has developed its Ace box to be winchable. Dolav winchable ACE
The Dolav Ace box or tub can now be easily hoisted singly or stacked into and out of the hold. Available solid or perforated for drainage and air…more...
POTATO HYGIENE - DOLAVS FIT THE PROCESS
Checking and weighing
KFF Potatoes is based in Sutton Bridge near Spalding in Lincolnshire. It is primarily a potato prepacking operation, adding value to the product sourced from all over the UK, including…more...
The Dolav Ace is 'Abuse Ready!'
Dolavs being crushed on the largest compression test machine available in Europe.
Dropped! Crushed! Spiked! Rotated!Best 'price-for-spec' does not tell the 'real life' story.There is no Which? test for plastic pallet boxes but, says Dolav, "They need greater strengths than…more...
Apple Harvesting & Handling with Dolavs
Apple Harvesting & Handling - When all agree, half is free!Each Dolav has the Plantsman PO logo
'It's got to work for everyone.' That is key at top soft fruit cooperative, Plantsman Producer Organisation, in Ardleigh, Essex. Their…more...
Serving Up Food-Factory Waste For AD
The AD plant is complete with de-packaging and pasteurisation equipment. The de-packaging equipment is fed with packaged food in Dolavs and the separated waste food is pasteurised before being…more...
Plastic Dolavs Deliver Fresh Flake Ice
Express flake ice keeps fish freshRed Dolavs being loaded with flaked ice ready to deliver as soon as fleet arrives.
North East Ice, a harbour-based company in the port of Peterhead, delivers fresh ice in Dolavs for local fishing boat operator's catches in the fish auction…more...
Money talks at Yorkshire waste-food recycling company
ACE Dolav on fork lift.
At Mosley Waste Management, Topcliffe, Thirsk, Simon Mosley has a simple solution to mechanically handling food waste. "If we use IBC (intermediate bulk containers) they only last two or three…more...
Inside Out
HSF inside out vehcile livery
It is no secret that HSF Logistics uses Dolavs. One look at the side of an HSF vehicle makes that clear. A life-sized photo of the inside of the truck adorns the outside causing a double-take. It…more...
Long-life Pallet Box Value in Harsh Abattoir Use
Being tipped
Bristol-based Chew Valley Hide & Skin Company uses bespoke plastic pallet boxes to take 9000 tonnes of raw animal bi-products from abattoirs every year. Chew Valley searched for suppliers and…more...
Europe-wide Bulk Hygienic Meat Movement
Dolavs in use at HSF Logistics
When a product user and its design engineer get together, the results can be excellent. That is how one particular plastic pallet box developed from a user-idea and experience into a product…more...
Recycling
Food Processing
Classic Solid Dolav |
Standard 1200 x 1000 footprint this item is available in solid or perforated versions and a range of colours. |
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DOLAV ACE with 3 Integral Runners |
Standard 1200 x 1000 x 740mm Dolav footprint. Available in either fully solid or perforated versions and a range of colours. |
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MV1000 Pallet |
1200 x 1000 footprint heavy duty racking pallet. |
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Type 800 Dolav |
European footprint (1200 x 800) available in a range of colours for both Dolav and lid |
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Dolav Sims Lead-Acid Battery Recycling |
Battery ACE in use at Sims. |
A saviour! Rodanto verdict on Dolav Kitbins |
"For broccoli and melons the Dolav Kitbin is a saviour for us" says Trevor Shulton, managing director at Gravenend-based Rodanto. |
Cool chain box reduces weight & cost |
"No need for insulated boxes in our high speed unbroken cool chain," says Michael Lodahl at Danske Fiskeauktioner (DFA) in Jutland, Denmark. |
Dolavs handle juice fruit for 25 years |
Even after 25 years of service, meets all current and anticipated food and juice fruit handling standards. |
Cat 3 Clean |
Stafford Bye Products keeping it "Cat 3 Clean" and profitable with the Dolav Ace. |
Dolavs and Food Waste Handling |
Money talks at Yorkshire waste-food recycling company |
Dolavs in Food Processing |
How Dolavs are working within food processing. |
Hot Die Stamping |
Dolav hot die stamping with foil can show either logos or lettering or company name or initials on boxes and lids. |
More payload, less weight and cost with Dolav |
"We do not need an insulated box because our unbroken high-speed cool chain today is so good and so fast," says Michael Lodahl Owner and Director of Danish Fish Auctions in Denmark. |
Apple Harvesting & Handling with Dolavs |
Grower member, Boxford (Suffolk) Farms has been using the same perforated Dolav plastic pallet boxes for 30 years for handling apples from tree to store and for longterm storage. They have lasted so well that Plantsman PO is adding to its existing Dolav box stock by about 1000 each year. |
Welding Dolav Box Pallets |
How to repair your Dolavs. |
Tried, Tested and Proven Wins At Cranswick |
Dolav Lid Test |
Fork lift running over a lid. |
Waste Paper Handling |
Emptying paper in an ACE Dolav. |
ACE Dolav on Forks |
Dolav one piece moulding being rotated using a fork lift truck, clearly showing integral runners/tipping bars. |
Dolav Abuse Tests |
Drop, crush, spike and rotating tests. |
Potato Handling Hygiene for Food Processors |
Potato processing hygiene with cleanable Dolav plastic pallet boxes |