The acquisition of one of the UK’s most well-known family firms in the recovered paper sector is a significant step for SAICA as it moves to secure supply tonnage for its paper mill which is being built at Partington, south west of Manchester (see letsrecycle.com story).
And, the acquisition is coming under the SAICA Natur brand which represents confirmation that the company is developing a substantial recycling and waste management business in the UK.
Cutts Recycling operates two recovery centres in Doncaster and Sheffield employing 70 people and recycling about 70,000 tonnes-a-year of waste paper and cardboard. Cutts has forecasted a 2011 turnover of £10 million.
This development is the latest step in SAICA’s strategy to become an integrated player in the UK and follows the acquisition in November 2010 of Futur Ltd, the Wiltshire based waste management business (see letsrecycle.com story).
Proportion
Through this new combination of businesses, SAICA will manage more than 250,000 tonnes-a-year of waste paper in the UK, a significant proportion of the waste paper required to feed the Partington mill when it comes on stream in early 2012. With the Cutts acquisition the combined UK Natur turnover is estimated to be approximately 40 million in 2011.
The group now holds UK businesses in its three main business areas:
– manufacturing of recycled papers (SAICA PAPER), through its PM11 project in Partington;
– corrugated packaging, SAICA PACK UK operates 16 facilities in the UK & Ireland;
– and, waste management (SAICA NATUR).
Simon Dymoke, managing director of SAICA Natur in the UK, said SAICA has ambitious expansion plans with regard to waste management in the UK in order to drive the integrated business model that has proved to be so successful in Europe. We are looking forward to providing our UK customers with the benefits of SAICAs full product life cycle approach to packaging and waste management.
Family business
A family business established in 1968 by brothers John and Partick Cutts, Cutts Bros – as the business was then known – developed a successful paper collection, processing and recycling transport business in South Yorkshire. Today it delivers waste management solutions across England and has a strong presence in the Yorkshire and Humberside region as well as in Greater Manchester.
Current chairman John Cutts is a past president of both the Independent Waste Paper Processors Association and the British Waste Paper Association.
John Cutts said: “I am very pleased that we are becoming part of SAICA but it is a sad day for me as this has been a big part of my life. I am sure the business will continue to expand and the SAICA mill in Partington is a very exciting development.”
John’s son Richard is the managing director of Cutts Recycling. He told letsrecycle.com: We are very pleased with the acquisition by SAICA. It is good for the business to be able to develop and grow in partnership with another family business like SAICA. Richard and his cousin Alex Cutts, along with the workforce, will be joining the new business.”
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