WOOD RECYCLING
Enva Group
Enva, the recycling and resource recovery specialist, has grown rapidly via acquisition over the past 18 months to establish itself as one of the largest businesses of its type in the UK and Ireland.
Two years ago the Enva brand was only really known in Ireland. Then, last year, its owners rebranded all of its already wholly-owned business across the UK and Ireland under the same name. It is a company expanding at a rapid rate with one simple aim in mind: to create valuable secondary resources from waste materials.
One of its most recent acquisitions was Hadfield Wood Recyclers, a company with a history spanning 40 years, a pioneer of the UK’s waste wood industry and a founder of the Wood Recyclers’ Association. By adding Hadfield, Enva became the UK’s second largest waste wood recycler, processing around 450,000 tonnes of wood a year.
“We are looking to create a world-class manufacturing mentality across all our sites,” said MD Barry Coughlan. “We are already making valuable products from
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waste wood and we see ourselves as a vital component in the UK manufacturing industry - an integral part of the supply chain.”
In the case of waste wood, Barry is, in particular, referring to the award-winning animal beddings that Hadfield Wood Recyclers are renowned for, as well as the feedstock product the company manufactures for the panel board industry.
“These two types of products are specifically manufactured from a waste material but they do more than just create a second life for waste,” said Barry.
“For example, our process of
manufacturing animal beddings is highly skilled and involves not only cleaning the wood but treating it with organic additives to make bespoke and unique products. Then, after its second life as animal bedding, it can go on to be safely composted on land or as a biomass fuel, giving it a third use.”
By acquiring Hadfield Wood Recyclers and their team of experts, Enva now boasts seven wood recycling sites in the
UK: two in Scotland and five in England. It also has several other sites where it can store wood and a dockside location at Tilbury in Essex enabling it to ship to other parts of the UK or to Europe.
“The scale of our operations now allows us to keep our gates open, even in peak season,” said Barry. “This is something that is crucial to our customers to ensure they keep their sites free of material and within legal storage limits.”
Enva also has its own fleet of artic wagons which it can optimise to move waste wood and its manufactured products around the country. These are well complimented by Hadfield’s existing biosecure trailer network, which guarantees the biosecure delivery of bedding to poultry farms around the UK.
“As Enva continues to innovate and invest we are determined to stay focused on our simple business premise, which is to recover and manufacture products which are environmentally sustainable,” said Barry.
“We have a bright future ahead of us and we’re looking forward to it.”
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