The Sheffield-based company has been in the business for 21 years, expanding into waste disposal in 1988, and employs around 40 people. According to founder Richard Fletcher, their qualification for the tough British Standard means the company is moving with the times.
“The decision to gear the business to the higher British Standard is part of a long-term strategy to improve working standards,” Mr Fletcher said. “More and more of our trade customers are now insisting on not only proven quality standards, but are also anticipating suppliers who can achieve, and are accredited with, the higher environmental competence reflected in this Standard.”
The company involves works clearance contracts with the engineering, foundry and building sector, covering dry and hazardous waste as well as scrap metal. Mr Fletcher was joined by David Hedley – twice president of the Northern Metals Federation – to expand the metals recycling side of the business in September 2000. The two have more than 60 years' experience of the metals recycling industry between them.
Mr Fletcher has also been an active member of the Northern Metals Association Committee for a number of years, and believes the industry is moving towards ever-toughening environmental standards.
“The scrap processing industry is one of the oldest and most successful recycling businesses in Britain,” he explained, “but nothing and no-one stands still, and we feel that processing in the future will be tied even more closely to the achievement of more stringent environmental safeguards.”
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