Work is progressing on schedule to create the UK’s largest waste wood recycling centre.
Leading wood recycling firm Plevin is on course with development plans for the new £5 million facility on a 50 acre site in Hazlehead, South Yorkshire.
The centre, which will primarily manufacture wood chips for energy giant E.ON’s £120m renewable energy plant at Blackburn Meadows near Sheffield, will create 20 jobs and process up to 150,000 tonnes of waste wood a year.
The facility is now open for receipt of waste wood material and preparations are underway for the installation of processing equipment. Site preparation work to date has included the demolition of redundant buildings. Installation of processing equipment is due to commence in the new year, and production on site will coincide with the opening of Blackburn Meadows.
Jamie Plevin, managing director of Plevin, said: “We’re pleased to see work progressing on schedule at Hazlehead.
“We have had a great response to the start of our recruitment drive, and have already hired three new members of staff, two machine drivers and a load inspector, who will prove integral to the site’s success.
“Later in the year, we will start recruiting for further posts at Hazlehead. Further information will be posted on the Plevin website, www.plevin.co.uk.”
The Hazlehead site will allow the firm, based in Mossley, Greater Manchester, to fulfil its contract as the sole supplier of fuel to the Blackburn Meadows plant.
Barnsley Development Agency, a partner in the South Yorkshire Sector Growth Enhancement Programme, which is part-financed by the European Union's 2007-13 European Regional Development Fund, is helping Plevin with recruitment at the new base.
The agency’s SYSGEP sector growth manager Steve Hawkins said: “We’re delighted to welcome Plevin to Barnsley. It’s quite a coup for the borough to be chosen as a manufacturing base for such a major supplier to the green energy sector and we look forward to continuing to support them as they create valuable jobs in the area.”
As well as processing biomass fuel, Plevin manufactures a range of market-leading wood-based products, including materials for the panel board industry and animal bedding for livestock, equestrian and small animals.
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Work under way to create UKs biggest waste wood recycling centre
21 August 2013
Plevin announce plans for £5 million waste wood recycling facility
13 May 2013
Leading wood recycling firm Plevin has announced plans to open the UK’s largest waste wood recycling centre.
The family-run company plan to install a new £5 million facility on a 50 acre site in Hazlehead, South Yorkshire, which will create 20 jobs and process up to 150,000 tonnes of waste wood a year.
The new facility will primarily manufacture recycled wood chips for energy giant E.ON’s £120m renewable energy plant at Blackburn Meadows near Sheffield, with Plevin the exclusive suppliers of fuel for the biomass-fired facility.
Jamie Plevin, managing director of Plevin, said: “The Hazlehead facility will be a fantastic development for us, and with the E.ON contract we are making significant strides towards our growth targets.
“As well as helping us expand our operations by giving us further capacity for new contracts, Hazlehead will also help us to offer increased manufacturing volumes to existing customers. The addition of the Hazlehead facility to our portfolio brings our total waste wood and recycled woodchip manufacturing capacity to 350,000 tonnes per year.
“The project will allow us to have an open gate policy for contracted suppliers on all grades of waste wood. Once completed, we will be able to offer guaranteed recycling of a large volume of high and low grade waste wood.
“The development has been timed to coincide with the start of our contract with E.ON, with work due for completion in Spring 2014.”
As well as manufacturing biomass fuel, Plevin manufactures a range of market-leading wood-based products, including materials for the panel board industry and animal bedding for livestock, equestrian and small animals.
The sourcing of the additional 150,000 tonnes of wood waste for the Hazlehead development will be overseen by business development manager Andrew McFadzean, who has recently been recruited by Plevin as part of its ongoing recruitment drive.
Andrew has more than 15 years’ experience within the waste wood recycling industry, having been a founding member of Tracey Timber Recycling before becoming the materials manager at AW Jenkinson Forest Products.
His new role will include responsibility for sourcing and procuring waste wood for all Plevin sites, as well as supporting with logistic and processing operations.
Andrew said: “I’m delighted to be here, everything I’ve been doing so far in my career has come together in this role.”
“Hazlehead is an excellent site, no other wood recycling company has ever had a facility like it, and on the back of it we have a fabulous contract with E.ON, which is particularly impressive considering there are tough times elsewhere in the sector.
“It really is an exciting time for everyone here at Plevin.”
Plevin secures exclusive deal with top showjumping event
2 May 2013
EQUESTRIAN bedding producer Plevin, which owns the market-leading Snowflake and Woodpecker brands, has again secured naming rights for the UK’s biggest showjumping event in an exclusive sponsorship deal.
The 2013 Plevin British Showjumping Scope Festival takes place at Staffordshire County Showground from August 25 – August 31.
As part of the wide-ranging agreement, family-owned Plevin will supply 7,000 bales of its Snowflake Softchip bedding for use at the prestigious event. The dust-extracted product, which provides an alternative to traditional wood shavings, will be the only bedding used in approx. 1,400 temporary stables being built on the showground.
Plevin’s logo will feature on promotional literature, event announcements, tickets, brochures and the event’s website. The week-long festival hosts many national championship finals, as well as more than 70 riding classes.
This is the second year running that Plevin will be supplying its Snowflake Softchip bedding to this event.
Colin Smith, Sales Manager at Plevin said “I am delighted that we have again been successful in securing the event again, the positive feedback we received after last year’s event underlined our belief that our Snowflake Softchip bedding is one of the leading alternative bedding products available.”
Family-owned Plevin, which employs 150 people across five sites, manufactures a range of wood-based products from virgin and waste wood materials and the company collects, processes and distributes 600,000 tonnes of wood a year.
Through its Snowflake and Woodpecker brands respectively, the company is sponsoring Team GB Olympic showjumping gold medal winner Ben Maher and Matthew Wright.
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