Viridor appoints South East regional director
Taunton-based waste management company Viridor has appointed Derek Edwards as its South East regional director as it moves to strengthen its presence in the region.
Mr Edwards will be based at the company’s materials recycling facility in Crayford, Kent. He joins Viridor from Automotive Distributors Ltd, a sales and logistics company supplying component parts to component distributors in the UK and Europe, where he held various senior positions including his last appointment as regional logistics director since 2009.
Graham Warren, Viridor’s regional managing director for Southern England, welcomed Mr Edwards into the business. He said: “Derek brings with him extensive commercial and people leadership knowledge and skills which will contribute towards our long-term growth ambitions for our recycling, collection, fuel supply and contract management operations in the south east of England.
“We already provide first class recycling and recovery services to public and private sector customers in London and the South East. Our plans to grow our market share include optimising current assets as well as further investing in ‘next generation’ technology, fleet and infrastructure.”
Mr Edwards welcomed his appointment, which completes Viridor’s senior management team for its Recycling and Resources Division.
He said: “It’s great to join Viridor at a time when the sector is significantly evolving.”
Blue Group promotes from within
Recycling equipment supplier Blue Group has announced that Allan Kane has been promoted from within to become general manager of Blue Machinery (Scotland) Limited.
At the same time, the company has welcomed Daniel Tomlinson as group marketing manager, the position vacated by Mr Kane.
Mr Kane has always been based at Blue Machinery Scotland’s premises in Stirling, having joined the Group to lead the marketing services activities eight years ago. During this period the Group has grown considerably, carried out a rebranding, seen the formation of materials handler distributor Blue Fuchs and the creation of BlueMAC, the bespoke recycling plant manufacturing venture with DMAC Engineering of Coalisland, Co. Tyrone.
Commenting on his new position, Mr Kane said: “I am very much looking forward to joining the management team at Blue Machinery Scotland and helping to drive the business forward as it continues to expand.”
Mr Tomlinson will be based at Blue Spares’ headquarters in Appleton Thorn, near Warrington, Cheshire. He has over 15 years marketing experience in various sectors and has a Master’s Degree in digital marketing.
Stadler appoints manager for Milton Keynes project
Waste treatment plant supplier Stadler UK has appointed David Cain as project manager for the Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park project.
The Recovery Park is being developed by AmeyCespa under a contract with Milton Keynes council, signed in 2013. The plant will combine gasification technology provided by Enerogs, the extraction of recyclable material via mechanical treatment by Stadler and an anaerobic digester (AD) operated by Celtic Bioenergy.
In his new role, Mr Cain will ensure the smooth co-ordination of the design and installation of the mechanical treatment plant. He previously worked with plastics recycling firm EcoPlastics, and is a qualified engineer.
Trevor Smart, sales manager for StadlerUK, said: “We are delighted to welcome Dave to the team. His project management experience, combined with his engineering background and experience of Stadler equipment and operating systems will be invaluable on this highly complex project.”
Mr Cain said: “This project is a huge challenge for both Stadler and myself personally and I am looking forward to embracing it.”
Andigestion welcomes AD plant manager
Jon Stait has been appointed as plant manager at Andigestion’s new Bishops Cleeve anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Gloucestershire.
The AD plant processes food waste from Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas into biomethane which is put back into the national gas grid. The plant also produces liquid fertiliser which will be made available to local farmers. As part of his role, Mr Stait will be responsible for directing and coordinating the daily running of the plant and will, as the plant gets busier, be appointing six new employees to work on the site.
This month the plant has begun taking in food waste from domestic collections and seen the first collections from Gloucestershire based schools.
Mr Stait, who previously managed an energy-from-waste plant in Redditch, said: “It is an exciting opportunity as the facility is brand new and the technology we are using in the Bishops Cleeve facility is state of the art. We are now up and running and working hard to ensure the plant is at full capacity as soon as possible.”
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