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Recycling News
EMS go electric with Sennebogen
The EMS Waste Services story dates as far back as the 1940s when founder Alf Stuart bought a second-hand Dodge and began to transport cattle around Exeter. Transport has always been the backbone for the company with a Volvo Truck dealership formed from this side of the company, the move into warehousing soon followed. Not one to miss an opportunity, Alf’s son Roy, already in the business, grabbed a chance to open an inert landfill facility at Hill Barton and took the next step for the company and their first into waste management.
Further expansions within the farming and transport sectors eventually saw the company step up their presence within the recycling sector in 2009 with the acquisition of EMS Waste Services Ltd. Between 2012 and 2015 the Stuart family added further interests in waste management to the fold in the shape of Devon Contract Waste skips, AJS skips, ASAP skip hire and Bay skip into the fold, along with the addition of a new scrap recycling facility to boost the range of services offered to their growing list of clients throughout Devon and the surrounding areas. Further acquisitions have seen the company increase their vehicle fleet for the recycling business expand to almost 50 units and employing over 120 staff to process over 150,000 tonnes of waste on an annual basis.
To handle much of this incoming waste the company has invested in a state-of-the-art Kiverco picking station enabling them to double their throughput at the plant. Whilst having the ability to increase production with a new plant, the company realised a new machine for loading the plant was also required and with an eye on reducing their carbon footprint as well as reducing harmful fumes created by standard diesel-powered machines, the Stuarts decided that a new electric material handler would be the ideal way forward for them.
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