The site is licensed to treat over 200 tonnes of industrial liquid waste material per week. The facility treats effluents such as acids, interceptors waste, alkalis, leachate, biosludge, metal hydroxide, chromic acids, nitric acid, coolants, sludge materials and others.
This purchase is WasteCare Group 15th licensed site and its fifth acquisition in the last year.
Peter Hunt, chairman of the WasteCare Group, said: “This is a strategic addition to the group, enabling us to expand our offering to both existing and new clients.
“This deal provides a significant boost to our capacity to handle bulk chemical waste. With the strength of our national collection fleet we are able to collect and treat virtually any type of hazardous and ‘difficult’ waste regardless of volume.”
Management
Wastecare Group has revealed that the site’s existing management and operational team, led by Paul Campbell, will be retained.
John Campbell has also been appointed commercial manager for LBV and the HazCare division, the company confirmed. Further staff appointments are also expected to be announced.
The latest announcement follows a period of major expansion for WasteCare. In April of this year a hazardous waste treatment plant capable of processing over 2,000 steel drums per day was acquired by WasteCare Group’s industrial packaging division.
PackCare purchased the Avonmouth facility from Greif UK Ltd, a global manufacturer of steel drums, pails and intermediate bulk container (IBC) packaging.
Acquisition
WasteCare also announced the acquisition of the Avonmouth IBC facility from Greif UK.
The plant is the only permitted thermal treatment facility dedicated to contaminated steel drums and other metal packaging in the UK, according to PackCare, following recent changes to regulatory guidance (See letsrecycle.com story).
And, last month WasteCare announced it had purchased Veolia’s shareholding in BatteryBack plc making it a wholly-owned subsidiary of the group. The scheme has since unveiled plans to grow its battery collection activities in the local authority sector and build a UK battery recycling plant (See letsrecycle.com story).
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