JCB Fleet Answers Wastemasters Hire Calling
With its recently ordered fleet of JCB machines, Coventry-based Wastemasters Hire, part of Tom White Waste (TWW), is satisfying a growing demand for waste and recycling sector specific short-term hire.
This latest order comprises a 437 Wheeled Loading Shovel, a 457 Wheeled loader, a 560-80WM Loadall – JCB’s most powerful unit in this telehandler range and a JS20MH wheeled material handler. Wastemasters Hire identifies these as the ideal sector specific machines.
This is borne out by the positive experience that Wastemasters Hire’s parent company, Tom White Waste, enjoyed with its own fleet of JCB machines, as Paul Labram, operations manager at TWW and Director at Wastemasters Hire, explains: “All the recent orders, bar the 457, which is suited to larger operations, we run on our own waste handling sites. They are all popular machines for the sector, so we ordered the same for our hire business.”
Amey Makes Investment In Top Talent
Amey has strengthened its investments team after recruiting a range of experts from the worlds of accountancy, law and finance.
While Amey is known for its operational work – maintaining and managing infrastructure – its Investments business adds specialist knowledge to ensure that local and central government clients set up smart, innovative funding and financing methods.
Over the past 15 years, Amey has helped to raise £4bn of private finance to invest in the UK’s infrastructure.
Oliver Purches joins the Amey Investment team as Associate Director to focus on structured and project financing, covering bank debt, capital markets and equity. A qualified accountant with serval CISI qualifications, Purches previously held roles in debt advisory and project finance for JCRA and HSBC respectively.
“Our ambitions, and the ambitions of our clients, are constantly evolving. Key to Amey’s current and future successes is investment in talented people with contrasting and complimentary skillsets.”
Purches is joined by Tara Reale, formerly Technical and Commercial Adviser at Mott MacDonald. Reale will oversee the origination of new transactions across a wide range of sectors, with an emphasis on the environmental sector. Taking the title of Project Finance Manager, Reale also holds a PhD in Asset Management from Trinity College Dublin.
Also joining the Amey Investments team, following five years as a corporate lawyer, is Principal Manager James Robertson. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Robertson previously held environmental and infrastructure roles in Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. Since joining Amey, the University of Oxford and Imperial college graduate has led on the corporate structuring of Amey’s Carillion Rail acquisition.
All join the Project Delivery team led by Director of Projects Nick Dawson.
Eugenio Herrero completes the new cohort. Formerly of Ferrovial Agroman UK, Amey’s sister company, Herrero joins Amey as a Project Finance Manager to focus on business development and will report to Investment Director Nick Maggs. Herrero is an alumnus of the ICAI School of Engineering in Madrid where he graduated in electrical engineering.
Speaking on the new arrivals, Asif Ghafoor, Managing Director of Amey’s Ventures Team, said “Our ambitions, and the ambitions of our clients, are constantly evolving. Key to Amey’s current and future successes is investment in talented people with contrasting and complimentary skillsets. I am delighted to welcome our new colleagues on our journey to help clients secure the funding and expertise they need for their projects.”
Wood Recycler Says City Of Trees Seminar Was A Success
Manchester-based Hadfield Wood Recyclers was delighted to support and be among delegates at a seminar in the city recently, which brought together a range of local, national and international people with an interest in urban forest management.
The event, organised by Manchester City of Trees, saw key organisations from the urban forestry sector share best practice.
Delegates included representatives from the Greater Manchester local authorities, housing associations and universities as well as conservation organisations, environmental consultants and landscape architects.
Geoff Hadfield, MD of Hadfield Wood Recyclers which has a site in Droylsden, Manchester, said the seminar had provided a really useful insight into the required planning and examples of good practice that we need, in order to ensure we get sustainable urban planting in the city.
“It was also good to hear speakers talk about the importance of considering the end of the life cycle of trees and how they can continue to provide benefit to the environment,” added Geoff. “Recycling wood into sustainable end products is what our business is all about.”
“It was also good to hear speakers talk about the importance of considering the end of the life cycle of trees and how they can continue to provide benefit to the environment,” added Geoff. “Recycling wood into sustainable end products is what our business is all about.”
The seminar was organised by City of Trees, a movement which aims to plant 3 million trees, one for every man, woman and child across Greater Manchester within a generation.
Hadfield Wood Recyclers has made City of Trees its charity of the year for 2018 and is supporting a number of events including today’s seminar.
Hadfield has three world-class recycling sites; one still in Manchester, one in Middlesbrough and one in Essex. It employs 162 people, most of whom live local to the sites.
Hadfield specialises in recycling all grades of non hazardous waste wood into a range of recycled products including animal bedding, feedstock for the panel board industry and biomass fuel. It reprocesses more than 300,000 tonnes of waste wood a year.
The business handles waste wood for many national and international waste management companies and local authorities including the UK’s largest wood recycling contract which takes waste wood from all of Manchester’s household waste recycling centres – a contract it has held for the past 15 years.
Geoff added: “It’s fantastic to see a project like the City of Trees in Manchester. It is a great cause and one which will undoubtedly enhance our city while at the same time help the environment. Congratulations to all involved.”
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