Both parties have signed an agreement which will see the waste recycling business continue to trade as DJ Laing Waste Management “for an interim period” after it transfers to NWH during October.
NWH Group’s waste services division said the deal would secure local jobs at DJ Laing’s site on the Gourdie Industrial Estate in Dundee, adding that both companies will be working together closely “to achieve an easy transition for employees, customers and suppliers alike”.
Mark Williams, managing director of NWH Group, said: “We are delighted to have reached an agreement to purchase the Dundee operation as it fits perfectly with our strategic plans to grow our business into new geographical areas throughout Scotland.
He explained that NWH is looking to build on DJ Laing’s “strong customer base” in Tayside and Angus: “With the redevelopments that are currently ongoing in Dundee and the surrounding area, we are excited to be part of a vibrant and changing city.”
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Family-run DJ Laing Group said it had welcomed the approach from NWH, adding that the acquisition would enable DJ Laing Recycling Solutions to “concentrate operations in the wood recycling market” as well as allowing “a fresh focus on its core business of civil engineering, construction and house building”.
As such, DJ Laing will continue with its existing inert and wood recycling operations at its Petterden site, just outside Dundee, supplying products into the construction, panel board, animal bedding and biomass markets.
The firm employs 117 staff directly as well as a wide number of local sub-contractors and agency labour.
David Laing, managing director of DJ Laing Group, said: “After 40 years in business, and 25 years in recycling and waste management, the DJ Laing Group welcomed the approach from NWH and sees the transfer of the Dundee site to NWH as a positive opportunity. Not only to secure the jobs of our skilled, long term, workforce but it will also allow the business to expand further in waste recycling.
He added: “With similar core values to our own family run business, we feel that NWH will be a very good fit for our employees, customers and suppliers.”
DJ Laing stressed it had “a future build programme over the next eight years and ample work and security for the years ahead”, having secured a landbank of 360 units, including the regeneration of Panmure Industrial Estate in Maltings and proposals for a new business park and housing at Upper Victoria in Pitskelly.
First established in 1967, family-run NWH Group employs 220 staff across four sites across Scotland, offering services in waste, road sweepers, concrete and aggregate supplies, skip hire and gritting.
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