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  • EGBERT TAYLOR LAUNCHES โ€˜GREEN REWARDSโ€™ SCHEME FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES

    EGBERT TAYLOR LAUNCHES โ€˜GREEN REWARDSโ€™ SCHEME FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES

    Egbert Taylor is to introduce a new โ€˜Green Rewardsโ€™ scheme to promote the sustainable benefits of buying metal bins Made in Britain.   Many of Taylorโ€™s competitors only assemble bins in the UK after importing materials from countries such as China, which creates high levels of carbon emissions, or refurbish bins using wet paint, which…

  • EGBERT TAYLOR NAMED NATIONAL RECYCLING AWARDS FINALIST

    EGBERT TAYLOR NAMED NATIONAL RECYCLING AWARDS FINALIST

    Egbert Taylor and South Ayrshire Council will join illustrious businesses and organisations at the National Recycling Awards 2020, which takes place on 15 December, after both organisations were today announced as joint finalists for the Partnership Excellence โ€“ Public/Private Sector Award. Both organisations were shortlisted following a successful partnership initiative that delivered huge recycling gains…

  • WASTE FIRM BACKS BRITISH AS PART OF GROWTH PLAN

    WASTE FIRM BACKS BRITISH AS PART OF GROWTH PLAN

    Total waste management company, Axil Integrated Services, has chosen UK manufacturer Egbert Taylor to build its latest order of HazPodTM products – a bespoke Taylor 1100L container equipped to collect and transport hazardous waste. The 40-unit order, which signals success for Axil despite the pandemic, follows the Corby-based firmโ€™s commitment to growing its UK operation…

  • Win while youโ€™re binning: the case for smart waste collection

    Win while youโ€™re binning: the case for smart waste collection

    by Emmett Reidy, Business Development Director at Egbert Taylor Iโ€™ve been working in the disruptive waste technology market for over a decade now, and during that time the bin and market has changed โ€“ considerably, I am glad to say. With the advancement in cellular and battery technology, as well as Local Authoritiesโ€™ openness to…

  • EGBERT TAYLOR REPORTS GROWTH

    EGBERT TAYLOR REPORTS GROWTH

    24th March 2020 Worcester-based container manufacturer, Egbert Taylor, has revealed business growth of 4.4 per cent after the firm boosted revenue from ยฃ12.8m in 2018 to ยฃ13.4m in 2019 and reported an EBITDA of ยฃ753,000. These positive results were achieved by focusing on โ€˜growing turnover, sustained gross margins and tight controls over operating costs and…

  • EGBERT TAYLOR APPOINTS CHAIRMAN

    EGBERT TAYLOR APPOINTS CHAIRMAN

    Worcester container manufacturer, Egbert Taylor, has appointed longstanding waste industry specialist and former Dennis Eagle CEO, Mike Molesworth, as Chairman. The move supports the firmโ€™s ambitious growth plans and is expected to help reaffirm Egbert Taylorโ€™s position as the UKโ€™s primary producer of premium steel containers. Mike, a prominent figure within the waste sector, led…

  • Bin Brief – 2019

    Bin Brief – 2019

    Our UK customers are responsible for so much positive waste and recycling activity that we thought we would share their successes (and ours) with a waste and recycling briefing. And donโ€™t worry, we will keep it brief.

  • Scottish success prompts team expansion

    Scottish success prompts team expansion

    Worcester-based container manufacturer and waste solutions provider, Egbert Taylor, has announced plans to grow its presence in Scotland following the appointment of Adam Ramsay, who joins the team this month as Area Business Manager. The move follows a string of successes in Fife and South Ayrshire, which has seen the large-scale rollout of many of…

  • Egbert Taylor scoops national recycling award

    Egbert Taylor scoops national recycling award

    Egbert Taylor has won the Smarter Systems (Efficiency) Award at this yearโ€™s National Recycling Awards, which took place at London Hilton, Park Lane, on 27 June, beating 10 other companies that had been shortlisted for the coveted category. Over 600 of the recycling sectorโ€™s prominent figures came together to celebrate the waste industryโ€™s achievements, many…

  • Contamination crackdown at South Ayrshire Council

    Contamination crackdown at South Ayrshire Council

    Egbert Taylor is playing its part in helping South Ayrshire Council to improve recycling levels after rolling out a series of measures across 1,200 of its 1,100L bins. The council has incorporated three Egbert Taylor solutions including the T-Lock, the Lid-in-Lid and aperture restrictor plate, all of which have been introduced to increase the quality…

  • Growing Global demand for Steel Bins sees UK manufacturer widen International net.

    Growing Global demand for Steel Bins sees UK manufacturer widen International net.

    Longstanding container manufacturer, Egbert Taylor, has revealed that its โ€˜Best of Britishโ€™ message is continuing to gain traction overseas, after securing a number of projects in Saudi Arabia for its iconic Continental 1,100L, worth over ยฃ1,000,000. The Worcester-based firm has also recently received high value orders from India and Malaysia, as countries around the world…

  • Lifes a Peach on the Beach in Sunderland following a new plastic waste strategy

    Lifes a Peach on the Beach in Sunderland following a new plastic waste strategy

    Sunderland City Council has put the genie back in the plastic bottle following its decision to tackle plastic waste across its seafront areas via a partnership with container manufacturer and waste solutions provider, Egbert Taylor. The move, which has seen the council roll out specially designed 660L bins wrapped with engaging calls to action for…

  • Dundee Bins are pretty as a picture after school competition winners revealed

    Dundee Bins are pretty as a picture after school competition winners revealed

    Egbert Taylor and Dundee City Council have announced the names of schoolchildren whose art will now adorn bins located on the streets of Dundee after they won a Dundee-wide school competition. The creative competition, which called for budding artists to design a recycling-themed piece of art asking the public to correctly dispose of their waste,…

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