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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 – Public/Private Sector Award. Both organisations were shortlisted following a successful partnership initiative that delivered huge recycling gains for South Ayrshire. Combining Egbert Taylor’s patented T-Lock system, which enables bin lids to automatically lock when depressed, and its Lid in Lid with restricted aperture solution, South Ayrshire Council was able to deliver an overall contamination reduction of 35 per cent. Prior to the…

24th March 2020 Worcester-based container manufacturer, Egbert Taylor, has revealed business growth of 4.4 per cent after the firm boosted revenue from £12.8m in 2018 to £13.4m in 2019 and reported an EBITDA of £753,000. These positive results were achieved by focusing on ‘growing turnover, sustained gross margins and tight controls over operating costs and overheads’, according to CEO Brendan Murphy. Egbert Taylor’s announcement comes as many UK manufacturers battle with supply chain issues and the inadequate provision of raw materials from overseas as a direct result of the Coronavirus pandemic. On reporting a positive year for the firm, Brendan…

Worcester container manufacturer, Egbert Taylor, has appointed longstanding waste industry specialist and former Dennis Eagle CEO, Mike Molesworth, as Chairman. The move supports the firm’s ambitious growth plans and is expected to help reaffirm Egbert Taylor’s position as the UK’s primary producer of premium steel containers. Mike, a prominent figure within the waste sector, led Dennis Eagle’s growth trajectory from 2000 to 2013. This included a period where he headed up Ros Roca Environment’s European business, which purchased Dennis Eagle in 2006. From 2013 until retiring in the middle of last year, Mike was on the group board and latterly…

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’s flagship products including the 1280L Continental bin and anti-contamination product, the Lid in Lid. Egbert Taylor’s recent national recycling award win, which was presented for its work with Scottish-based Nathan’s Wastesavers, is one of many initiatives that has helped the longstanding manufacturer deliver…

Egbert Taylor has won the Smarter Systems (Efficiency) Award at this year’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 sector’s prominent figures came together to celebrate the waste industry’s achievements, many of which were vying for an illustrious recycling award across 21 categories. The award was presented to Egbert Taylor following its partnership with the UK’s largest textile recycling business, Nathan’s Wastesavers, which saw the waste container manufacturer and waste solutions provider develop an innovative locking…

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, launched in May to all primary schools located within Dundee’s eight wards. Six primary school winners aged between 10 and 11 were presented with an art set and a trophy during a winners’ event at Slessor Gardens, which was attended by representatives from Egbert Taylor,…

Egbert Taylor Holdings is continuing to grow its presence in the Middle East following a successful Q2, which has seen sales grow by 90 per cent compared with the same period in 2017. Since the beginning of 2018 Egbert Taylor has shipped 12 containers of product to the Middle East each month and orders for Egbert Taylor’s iconic Taylor Continental container have grown year on year since the firm opened a Dubai office in 2016. The strategic recruitment of three key personnel over the last 12 months has also helped the Droitwich-based firm solidify its position as a ‘Best of…