The £30m-turnover company currently operates from a number of sites in the south of Leeds but is looking to centralise those operations under one roof.
It is currently in the process of stripping out the current sites and should move early in the new year, according to managing director Richard Proctor.
Proctor did not reveal the cost of the new site but said that its 5,700sqm size is more than double that of its largest existing site.
The new premises has space for up to 4,000 pallets to store PPB’s paper-based products, along with the new PPB range of industrial plastics, launched in March 2016, and its Westland digital display portfolio.
The Westland digital arm was opened in October 2015.
Proctor said: “We’ve grown the business in the last two years by quite a large amount and we have had these sites since 1987. We have expanded them as much as we can on the current footprint and are now operating out of several warehouses so we are wanting to get everything under one roof to make it more efficient and allow us to continue to grow the business.”
PPB employs 60 staff across the Leeds sites, which are about three miles away from the new premises.
It also employs 10 staff at a site in Thurrock, Essex, and six in a sales office in Leicester.
Proctor attributes much of the firm's recent growth to the demise of Paperlinx, as it allowed PPB to move into new markets and take on nine "key people” from the failed business.
He said: "We brought in a series of new products and also the new employees helped cement and establish our business with new customers because of their connections across the industry and the country."
Ex-Paperlinx employees taken on since April 2015 include: Steve Skinner, former Paperlinx POS manager, who now runs PPB's Thurrock branch; Paul Neale who runs the aluminium composite side of the business; and Joanne Smeeton who oversees the Westland digital brand.
Proctor said he had been searching around for some time to find a suitable new site.
“Because it will be a larger site, we can now operate more efficiently. We will have better workflow and even simple things like car parking for all our staff,” he added.
“Finding the right kind of site in the Leeds area is difficult,” he said.
“There hasn’t been much built in the last 15 years, they are only just starting to build now, so there is a lot of competition.”
PPB mainly distributes and converts POS materials and substrates to the screen, digital and large-format print markets.
Proctor hopes the move will lead to a continual period of growth for the outfit that was founded by his father 37 years ago.
