Green charts growth for Recycled UK on order to destroy fake CDs and games
A BLACK Country recycling business is targeting growth and employment expansion after winning new orders.
Recycled UK, based at the Cannon Business Park, Coseley, has set up one of the UK’s largest secure destruction facilities.
The company, which has expanded its workforce to 28 with the creation of 10 new jobs, has added more than £1m of sales in 2013 and is now processing and securely destroying over 30 tonnes of counterfeit CDs, DVDs and video games per week for blue chip organisations from the entertainment sector.
Bosses at the firm believe its decision to spend £150,000 on the specialist bonded warehouse, 12 picking stations and baling machines has given it a competitive advantage.
The company has even invested a further £50,000 into an automated shredder and baler, which means that once the item intended for destruction has entered the process it never leaves the track.
Paul Green, managing director, said: “The secure bonded warehouse has been a huge success in its first year of operation and has really helped us take the business into our next phase of growth. Thanks to the new orders we’ve won, I believe we’ll reach a record £2.1m turnover in 2013.
“With counterfeit goods such a big issue for firms, customers demand total peace of mind. From the minute the product arrives at Coseley in one of our trucks, we log it then track it throughout the various secure destruction phases.
“The client even gets a record of its destruction and – through a web link – can watch their order being completed. Better still, all of this is free of charge.”
The company has now been audited, approved and re-accredited by FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), which is likely to lead to more business for the firm.
Established in 2006 by Paul Green and Paul Cotton, Recycled UK has grown from a small start-up to one of the sector’s leading figures in delivering high quality recycling services in hard plastics, cardboards and film.
In line with the introduction of the bonded warehouse last year, the firm also invested in developing bespoke vision imaging software that would provide a new solution for disposing of time expired x-ray films for the medical sector.
The technology, which has been developed with an industry-leading professional, can set specific parameters to filter the files to ensure only the right ones are extracted and securely destroyed.
It also takes a digital image of the label, including patient ID, so clients not only receive an electronic record but one that can be searched for in EXEL to help with recovery of information.
Paul Cotton said all the work was carried out in compliance with hospital information governance and medical record policy and orders had already been successfully completed.
The NHS has already embraced this offer and the firm is currently working with about 60 Trusts across the UK and has processed in excess of 900 tonnes of material. This saves the trusts more than £1m annually on their storage and eventual disposal costs.
Recycled UK, which is predicting a turnover of £2.5m next year, is also close to securing the ISO 9001 quality accreditation.
