Peli Celebrates 20th Birthday

Peli UK celebrate their 20th anniversary year in 2012. From humble beginnings in a Salford basement, bringing Pelican products into the UK, the company has grown significantly.
Moving to bigger premises twice during the two decades, Peli UK now occupy a 20,000 sq ft purpose built facility with offices, warehousing and logistics operations in a stunning location at the edge of the Pennines in Glossop.
Peli Protector Cases have become well established in the market as essential protection for broadcast and photographic equipment, offering watertight, dustproof and crushproof security. Over the two decades the Peli range of cases has developed and there are now more than 60 sizes of cases, offering the widest choice to the customer.
Features include easy-open, double-step latches to secure the contents while metal reinforced padlock protectors stop the case from being cut or pried open. Foam inserts or padded divider systems are available to customise the interior to protect the contents against impact, vibration and shock.
Professionals have chosen Peli Protector Cases for many years for their reliability, performance and durability in the most testing conditions.
Case Study: TV Cameraman Gives Peli The Nod
As an award winning documentary television cameraman with a reputation for filming in some of the world's most challenging and hostile environments, Jonathan Young has to trust not only his camera kit will get to these locations but the gear inside remains protected and in one piece.
Jonathan has trusted his valuable camera cargo to Peli since 1996.
"I own or have owned around 50 Peli cases, from the very smallest to the big 1650/1700 series. Over and over again, the TV camera kit inside my cases has been round the world several times and been at the mercy of baggage handlers in airports in every place you can think and some you have never even heard of!...Not once during the tens of thousand of kilometres I have travelled with my kit in Peli cases has one of them let me down or my camera kit been damaged. I have travelled by plane, 4x4, pick-up and camel. Peli has yet again passed the Jonathan Young toughness test!!”
Ross Kemp – Afghanistan 10 Years On" series for SKY One
"Without the protection, the peace of mind offered by my Peli cases, the shoot would have been over before it began. When you climb aboard any military transport in an active war zone, you must expect that your camera kit is going to be thrashed. It is not for the faint hearted. This is where my Peli cases saved my TV camera gear."
"Most of the time I had no control of how my equipment cases were moved or handled. On a couple of occasions, I even saw my Pelis thrown or pushed out of the side door of the Chinook to land upside down in the fine desert sand that we called 'Moon Dust', it gets everywhere - except into my Peli cases."
"I was carrying tens of thousands of pounds worth of tv camera gear for the series. As Afghanistan is so brutal you have to carry spares of everything. Again, the only way to protect this vital and sensitive kit is via my Peli Cases. The heat, the dust, the vibration from enormous military vehicles, it is a perfect storm for destroying kit. The footage to be captured in Afghanistan is once in a lifetime and unrepeatable. I have to rely and depend on my tv camera kit working first time, every time to get the story and the shot. They only way I can assure that this happens is through protecting the kit and keeping it clean. This is why Peli cases are in a class of their own when it comes to protection from dust and vibration. I have tried others but in the end I always come back to Peli. It just isn’t worth the risk"
Jonathan Young has been shooting in challenging and hostile environments for over 15 years. He has a long track record of working in Afghanistan, Iraq and as well as other parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa. His work as an award winning television cameraman can be seen regularly on Sky One with Ross Kemp, on the BBC and on the US network, NBC.
For more details go to www.peliproducts.co.uk or call: 01457 869999.
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