Global leader in online vehicle remarketing and recycling, Copart UK, have announced that expansion works have completed at their 80-acre Super Centre in Bristol, making it winter-ready for their customers. 

The recent addition of a further 21 acres establishes this location as an 80-acre ‘Super Centre’ for the Southwest.

The expansion adds 30% more vehicle capacity for Copart’s customers operating in this area, providing secure storage, and enlarged areas for vehicles that require specialist handling like EVs, HEVs, and flood and fire damaged vehicles.

In addition, further improvements to the infrastructure include an eco-friendly office building with strong green credentials, bio-diversity spaces designed to improve air quality and encourage nature, and brand-new vehicle preparation and valeting areas using state-of-the-art technology to inspect and image vehicles.

Jane Pocock, CEO of Copart UK & Ireland, said:

“Our Bristol Super Centre is a flagship ‘fit for the future’ site for Copart, having undergone an extensive expansion and improvement programme to enable us to keep growing our customer offering and operational capabilities to further service our customer needs.

“This expansion at Bristol will enable us to handle over 82,000 vehicles per annum, supporting Copart’s continued growth and industry leading services in the Southwest alongside our Operation Centres in Newbury and Westbury.

“And with winter fast approaching, this additional capacity will enable us to offer unique contingency land following extreme weather events where our insurance customers require our fast and efficient surge management services.”

e2e has transformed the way insurer clients can interrogate and apply total loss data to inform business decision making. 

Working with Incited, an award-winning provider of data and analytics solutions to the insurance industry, e2e has innovated its management information [MI] and reporting function to deliver clients interactivity with their total loss data which is refreshed every 24 hours.   Clients will be able to drill down into the data, select their own data ranges for time series comparison analytics, monitor KPIs and benchmark their results against anonymized, aggregated market data.   Built on Incited’s data platform and accessible via a secure, self-service web portal, this user friendly, enriched data and analytics solution offers clients dynamic business insights which are unobtainable from the static month end reports which have been commonly used in the market. 

Taking full advantage of its new data platform, e2e will enhance the service further by the end of the year; introducing predictive analytics to enable clients to identify and plan for future probabilities linked to their total loss motor claims.  Data lake capabilities built into the platform mean additional data from e2e, including Salvage Market auction data and reclaimed parts data will also be added to the service.  Clients will be able to dynamically interrogate and cross analyse all this data on the single platform, gaining a truly holistic overview of their total loss motor claims; enabling strategic reviews, process engineering, cost reductions and improved efficiencies.     

Jim Loughran, CEO at e2e said: “The total loss market represents untapped commercial opportunities for insurers and access to high quality data will enable them to identify, evaluate and act on those opportunities.  Static monthly reporting simply cannot provide the business insights they need.  The creation of our data platform and our new, interactive approach to MI reporting is part of our business strategy to be the premier data-led and technology-enabled provider of salvage claims management and fulfilment services.  We are delighted with the feedback from clients who have user tested our self-service portal and declared it ground breaking.  We look forward to disrupting the market further with the introduction of predictive analytics and extended, enriched data sets.  It’s time to raise the bar.”

Nick Turner, CEO at Incited commented: “The speed to value ratio of the first phase of this data and analytics project with e2e has been really impressive.  The appetite in the business for innovation and delivering real change for the market through access to data is voracious.  We are delighted to be partnering with e2e and welcome the quality of collaboration they bring to the table.  We have an exciting road map of data and analytics solutions to deliver by the end of the year and we look forward to supporting e2e in setting a new ‘data enabled’ benchmark in the total loss market place.” 

Global leader in vehicle remarketing and recycling, Copart UK, has announced their newly acquired status as an IMI approved accreditation centre, which will enable them to deliver essential IMI TechSafe electric and hybrid vehicle training across their nationwide Operation Centres.

The company will initially be focused on delivering IMI training for the Level 2 Award in Electric/Hybrid Vehicle Routine Maintenance Activities and the Level 3 Award in Electric/Hybrid Vehicle System Repair and Replacement.

The courses which Copart are now accredited to deliver will continue to provide their operational teams with the knowledge and skills required to work safely with electric/hybrid vehicles (which may have sustained damage to their high energy/electrical systems) during maintenance, diagnostic, testing, and repair activities. 

Long term, the company plans to stay ahead of the curve and offer a wide range of training courses in line with further sustainability developments within the automotive industry, such as hydrogen vehicle awareness.

Sarah Oakman, Training Manager at Copart, said:

“We’re delighted to have met the rigorous requirements of the IMI to achieve accredited training provider status and expand our remit to offer further qualifications to our teammates which will provide them with expert knowledge and technical skills development.

“We are now fully focused on establishing Copart as a high-quality and high pass rate centre for EV courses, initially operating out of our HQ in Bedfordshire with a view to setting up further locations to cover the North and South of England in the future.”

Duncan MacRae, Head of Performance, Quality & Risk, added:

“At Copart, we continually invest in training and upskilling our teammates to ensure that their knowledge is always relevant and up to date, enabling us to maximise value and deliver a world-class quality level of service to our customers, whilst delivering our Plan Net Zero sustainability commitment.

“With the electric car parc continuing to grow and evolve, it’s vital that we remain strongly focused on delivering specialist training alongside the EV handling infrastructure, equipment, and processes we’ve already established over the last decade.”

Steve Nash, CEO of the IMI acknowledged the important role Copart is playing in upskilling the sector. 

“Our data shows that the automotive sector is not keeping up with the growing EV car parc. It’s therefore hugely encouraging that businesses like Copart are making a real difference by committing to their own training and accreditation.”

Copart, which has the largest, fully qualified, vehicle engineering team in the UK salvage industry, will be externally regulated against a strict quality assurance process in line with IMI standards going forward.

In addition, the company has trained, and continues to train, over 240 drivers on IVR VR27 – Electric (EV) and Hybrid Vehicle, ensuring the safe handling of these vehicle types during recovery and transportation and further boosting their industry leading position within this field.

Copart is also an approved IVR UK Training Provider (Institute of Vehicle Recovery) and is currently in the process of being assessed to deliver IOSH-certified training (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health), which will begin a roll-out of ‘IOSH Managing Safely’ to all management level teammates.

In yet another strand of their ongoing growth programme, global leader in online vehicle remarketing and recycling, Copart UK, have announced a new Operation Centre in Corby, Northamptonshire.

Plans for a new 33-acre site located at the Rockingham Racetrack will support the company’s growth in the central region of the UK, alongside their existing Operation Centres in Chester, Wolverhampton, and Wisbech.

The site in Corby will enable Copart to increase vehicle storage capacity in this region by 32%.

Continued expansion across the UK is part of Copart’s ambitious growth programme to meet continued demand from their customers, including most of the UK’s major insurance and automotive companies.

This announcement follows recent updates from the company regarding expansions at their existing Operation Centres in Rochford, Westbury, and Wisbech, and the addition of a new 31-acre site in East Kilbride that will double their operational capabilities in Scotland. 

Jane Pocock, CEO of Copart UK and Ireland, said:

“We’re very excited to announce our plans to develop a new Operation Centre in Corby, which will provide annual storage capacity for 38,000 vehicles.

“Situated in close proximity to Leicester, Northampton, and Peterborough, Corby is a perfect location to further strengthen our unrivalled operational capabilities in the central region of the UK.

“There will be more announcements to come for our customers as we continue to expand our landbank and our range of industry leading products and services.”

Subject to all relevant planning permissions, Copart anticipates the Operation Centre in Corby to be operational in Autumn 2023