With news on: Craemer acquires Telford site; Encirc and SCA go carbon positive; Urban Mine platform to be unveiled; Textile exporter boosts charities with £250K loan; and, Countrystyle and Buckinghamshire’s Doyle shredder.
Craemer Group acquires Telford site
Plastics manufacturer Craemer Group – which has its headquarters in Germany – is set to expand its presence with the development of a new production facility in Telford.
(l-r) Phil Challinor, business engagement & investment team leader at Enterprise Telford, and Steve Poppitt, managing director, Craemer UK
Craemer purchased a 5.3 hectare site at Hortonwood West for the facility. The company’s expansion expected to create up to 70 new roles.
Following the opening of its first UK factory at nearby Hortonwood in 2006, Craemer reports that its turnover has increased from £5million, to £25.5 million in 2016.
And, the company says during this time it has increased its share of the UK and Ireland wheelie bin market from 5% to over 50%.
Craemer supplies local authorities as well as the environmental, logistics and manufacturing industries also with plastic pallets, storage and transport containers and fish boxes.
Construction works on the site are scheduled to start in mid-November, subject to planning approval, with the estimated completion date November 2018.
Urban Mine platform to be unveiled
The Prospecting Secondary Raw Materials in the Urban Mine and Mining Wastes (ProSUM) project will unveil the first ‘Urban Mine Knowledge Data Platform’ in Brussels on 10th November 2017.
The project will deliver a centralised database on arisings, stocks, and flows of waste electrical and electronic equipment
It will showcase the results of over two year’s data analysis by some 50 expert organisations across a host of different waste streams.
The project will deliver a centralised database on arisings, stocks, and flows of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), end of life vehicles (ELVs) batteries and mining wastes.
The initiative is being led by the WEEE Forum, an association of thirty-three not for profit producer compliance schemes, of which REPIC is a member.
According to REPIC, with the launch of the platform, the recycling industry will have ‘seamless access’ to data and intelligence on mineral resources.
Users will be able to perform searches, and access maps, graphs, charts and specific reports.
REPIC’s environmental affairs manager, Sarah Downes, is ProSUM’s project leader. She explained the database could provide a ‘valuable insight’ into past trends and future arisings for products and materials.
Until now, the data on secondary critical raw materials has been produced by a variety of institutions including government agencies, universities, NGOs and industries and in different databases, formats and reports.
Encirc and SCA Hygiene Products go carbon positive
Glass manufacturer and bottler, Encirc, has worked with global hygiene solutions provider, SCA Hygiene Products, to plant 120 trees on its grounds in Elton, Cheshire, as part of a sustainability initiative.
The saplings were planted to ‘offset’ carbon created by delivering paper towel products to Encirc’s North West facility.
(l-r) Sue Sheen and Paul Jones from Arco – facilitators of the deal – Dave Lightfoot from SCA and David Burns, energy manager, Encirc.
According to Encirc, over a predicted lifespan of 80 years, the 120 trees will together absorb around 80 tonnes of carbon dioxide, helping to substantially mitigate the emissions from truck deliveries of Tork paper towel products to the site.
The container glass manufacturer – which employs more than 800 people in Cheshire – has also taken steps to minimise paper wastage, installing ‘innovative’ new Tork towel dispensers.
David Burns, energy manager at Encirc, said: “These new Tork dispensers will allow us to save more than £9,000 over the next year alone and the saplings are ensuring the supply chain behind our tissue products is carbon positive.”
Textile exporter boosts charities with £250K loan
Wiltshire-based textile recycling firm, Devizes Textiles, has used a £250,000 P2P loan and taken advantage of the cheap pound in order to increase its exports, creating new local jobs in the process.
Devizes buys unsold clothes and shoes from charities and local councils, and exports them to Africa, Eastern Europe, India and Pakistan
Founded in 2001, the company buys unsold clothes and shoes from charities and local councils, before collecting, sorting and grading the goods and exporting them to Africa, Eastern Europe, India and Pakistan.
Devizes reports that a working capital loan of £250k from peer-to-peer lender, RateSetter Business Finance, has enabled the company to boost profits this year to £100,000 – an increase of two-thirds over the previous 12 months. The company’s workforce has also been expanded to 30 people.
Charities that have benefited from Devizes Textiles’ operations include: Save the Children, Barnardo’s, Age UK, Against Breast Cancer, Wiltshire Air Ambulance, The Salvation Army and Pramacare.
Countrystyle and Buckinghamshire take delivery of Doyle shredder
Waste and recycling firm Countrystyle Recycling and Buckinghamshire council have taken delivery of an Arjes VZ950DK primary mobile tracked shredder from Doyle Machinery.
Arjes VZ950DK primary mobile tracked shredder from Doyle Machinery
As part of Countrystyle’s wider Biowaste Treatment Contract with the council, the shredder will process the bulky household waste at the High Heavens Facility near High Wycombe.
According to Doyle Machinery, Countrystyle were looking for a complete solution for the treatment of the bulky waste from ten of Buckinghamshire’s Household Recycling Centres across the County, and from four district councils.
This included the shredding process for streams including mattresses and carpets.
Doyle Machinery were approached to provide a shredding solution, and after analysing the waste stream decided to demonstrate one of the largest mobile tracked shredders – the Arjes VZ950DK.
According to Doyle Machinery, due to its mobile and modular structure, throughput, end product sizing and fuel consumption, the shredder is a financially viable solution.
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