Andrew Brown Looks back on 2022

John MacKinnon achieves professional registration with the Engineering Council

Gray & Adams is passionate about supporting our team members achieve their career ambitions and as a business, we do what we can to support our colleagues to develop their skills and be the best they can be.

With this in mind, we are delighted to announce that John MacKinnon has recently been coached to attain Incorporated Engineer Registration with the Engineering Council through the Society of Operations Engineers (SOE), and the Institute of Road Transport Engineers (IRTE). It is with congratulations that we share that he has now achieved his goal and can now use the post nominals of IEng. Registration with a professional body is a great achievement for both John and Gray & Adams and we would like to wish him all the best in his future career with the business.

Congratulations from James and Peter.

Servicing unique requirements - GA Pet Food Partners

New Gray & Adams customer GA Pet Food Partners has recently invested in its first fleet of brand-new refrigerated trailers, and we caught up with Jim Whittingham, Operations Director at GA Pet Food Partners, to find out more about the business and its budding relationship with Gray & Adams.

GA Pet Food Partners are Europe’s leading manufacturer of own label premium dry pet foods providing a total solution, from new product development, through to manufacturing, packaging, storage and dispatch. Since 2015, the GA Pet Food Partners team had been investing in second hand trailers to allow them to collect human grade food from abattoirs and fish factories across the UK and abroad and bring them back to their manufacturing facilities. When the time was right to invest in brand new trailers, Gray & Adams was a first point of contact due to Jim’s industry contacts, who had shared their delight on the quality and service they received from our team.

Jim tells us,

“When we were ready to invest in our first brand-new trailers, I had heard through close friends, acquaintances and through secondhand trailer dealers that Gray & Adams was the first choice for the quality of their builds.”

The Gray & Adams sales team worked closely with Jim to ensure that the new trailers would be an ideal fit for GA Pet Food Partners. Due to the nature of the products that GA Pet Food Partners is picking up, it was decided to install a grit floor with a bespoke tank under the trailer which would collect any liquid residue through channels fitted into the body of the trailer. This is an example of the tailored approach that Gray & Adams can offer, which allows our customers to grow their business by ensuring what we build is fit for unique purposes. Jim said,

“The Gray & Adams sales team were hugely helpful from the first point of contact right, throughout the design process and into delivery. The installation of the tank under the trailer has been a great innovation for us. It is very easily removed and cleaned out which has been a real time saver. “The new Gray & Adams trailers are the pride of our fleet, they are more thermal efficient than other trailers we’ve had and are exactly the high quality product we were expecting.”