Waste management operator Countrystyle Group, announced yesterday (4 October), that it has acquired waste management consultancy firm Any Waste Solution from financially troubled Irish investment business One51, for an undisclosed sum.
Based in Snodland, Kent, close to Countrystyle’s operation in Maidstone, Any Waste Solution offers a ‘full waste management consultancy’, including skip hire and the capacity to ‘assess and improve’ recycling efficiency.
The purchase of Any Waste Solution and its fleet of 22 vehicles has enabled Countrystyle to strengthen its position as the ‘largest independent waste management operator in Kent’.
Commenting on the takeover, Chairman of Countrystyle Group, Trevor Heathecote, highlighted the effect this would have on their business.
“The acquisition is in line with our strategy of expanding our activities within the waste and recycling sector and assists further in achieving our goal of becoming the waste management and recycling company of choice in the South East”.
Founded in 1996 by Heathecote, Countrystyle already has a number of facilities across South East England and its facilities, which include in-vessel composting (IVC) and open windrow composting, recycle a range of materials including wood and plasterboard.
The group has grown rapidly in the past few years, most recently as a result of its acquisition in 2011 of three IVC facilities from County Mulch Ltd. In the same year they also acquired Halstead Renewable Power Project, which included ‘full planning permission for the development of an anaerobic digestion plant in Essex’.
More recently, in July of this year, Countrystyle signed a contract to export 50,000 tonnes of recycled wood chip to Sweden to feed a ‘network’ of combined heat and power plants run by Vattenfall AB and E-On.
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