News: Ron Hull announce £4m investment in Rotherham facility

Leading Rotherham recycling firm, the Ron Hull Group, has announced that it is to invest in excess of £4m to create a new high-tech reprocessing centre capable of achieving the ultimate green target - 100% re-use of materials.


The expansion is expected to create more than twenty new jobs this year.

The company has bought a vacant 4-acre former warehousing site just a few hundred yards from its Mangham Road base on the Barbot Hall Industrial Estate. Work is now underway to prepare the site's main 80,000 sq ft building ahead of the installation of new plant and machinery.

The site was purpose built for Gloystarne distribution and more recently used by NYK Logistics to distribute Haribo sweets accross the UK.

Mark Hull, director at the Ron Hull group said: "Initially the new facility will handle 75,000 tonnes of waste a year but it has the potential to process double that amount, up to 150,000 tonnes a year.

"The thing that is particularly exciting is the prospect that the advanced technology that we'll be using on the site will take us well on the way towards the recycler's dream -100% recycling - the point where everything brought in is sorted, processed and used, with nothing going to landfill."

The group are investing close to £2m in new machinery for the site, including state of the art shredders and are also looking into the practicality of an RDF facility, which involves processing waste that can then be used in power stations and other plants to generate heat and energy.

Fellow director Nigel Hull added: "One of the key benefits of the expansion on to the new site will be that it relieves the current pressure at our main recycling base and that opens up all sorts of opportunities.

"An immediate objective is to grow the size of our domestic and commercial skip service. The plan is to increase the operation by 50% in the next two years.

"As the investment in the new high-tech centre underlines, we don't just talk the talk, we do actually recycle every possible recyclable ounce that comes in to us and we believe that gives us a major competitive edge in an age when everyone is so aware of green issues."

The group are planning for the new centre to go live in the late spring.

Ron Hull Group website

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