Green shorts: Re-Bound creates jobs; Award for Convert2Green

RE-BOUND, a company which makes rubber bark from millions of used car tyres, has created five jobs in Runcorn.

The firm, the UK’s largest producer of recycled rubber garden products, has taken on two previously empty units.

Director Bob Jones said: “We’ve done extensive refurbishment works to the interior of the buildings so it is now perfectly suited to our requirements and will facilitate our future growth and expansion.

“The new manufacturing plant provides the perfect platform for us to continue to develop our innovative products and will help us to remain leaders in the field.”

Customers of the scented rubber bark the company produces include holiday parks, garden centres, schools and amateur gardeners.
 

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MIDDLEWICH-based cooking oil recycling specialist Convert2Green has been named environmental company of the year at the East Cheshire Chamber of Commerce & Enterprise awards.

Over the last four years Convert2Green has recycled more than 13 million litres of waste cooking oil into bio-fuels; waste that would have otherwise gone to landfill, down the drain or for export abroad.

Director Andrew Webb said: “We’re very excited to have won the award; of course we completely believe in the waste-to-energy cycle and more and more organisations are recognising the carbon savings that can be made by recycling used cooking oil, but it’s great to have the endorsement of East Cheshire Chamber of Commerce & Enterprise.”

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PENNINGTON Choices, the Runcorn-based consultancy which advises not-for-profit housing associations on strategy, has launched a business which sells selling Solar Photovoltaic (PV) products.

The company’s managing director, Mark Seaborn, said that it had advised on the installation of technologies such as Solar PV panels within thousands of homes as part of its energy efficiency advisory service.

“By creating a specialist PV arm, we will be managing the entire design, management and installation service in-house,” he said.

“This will allow us to greatly add value to this process for both residential clients and commercial organisations seeking to achieve significant cost savings, whilst investing in a sustainable energy source. ”