Palm Recycling Secures Mortons Recovered Paper Contract

Palm Recycling installed customized equipment to optimize recycling rates for Mortons Print Limited.

Palm Recycling, a recycling company headquartered in Cheshire, U.K., has won a contract with Mortons Print Limited, a Lincolnshire-based newspaper printer, for the collection and delivery of its waste newsprint to the Palm Paper mill in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. The contract included a $79,250 (£50,000) investment by Palm Recycling for the installation of recycling systems and equipment designed to optimize collections, reduce costs and increase overall revenues.

In a press release Palm Recycling says the solutions-based approach involved partnering with Mortons to deliver a tailored and cost-effective system that met the company’s needs and improved recycling rates. Specifically, the system is designed to offer waste segregation and reduce the level of manual handling required.

“With levels of production increasing at Mortons, Palm Recycling was asked to propose a solution to improve recovered paper rates, increase revenues and introduce greater levels of automation,” says Richard Waterson, commercial and marketing manager, Palm Recycling. “Our answer was to deliver a bespoke [customized] management system that allowed Palm Recycling to handle all of Mortons recycling requirements including a quality automated system that is fully maintained and serviced.”

Ian Fisher, chief executive, Mortons of Horncastle Ltd, notes, “Having been a long-standing customer of Palm Paper’s high quality recycled newsprint, this partnership seemed the obvious choice especially with the advice and flexibility Palm Recycling offers.”

Waterson concludes, “With over 55 percent of recovered newsprint exported from the U.K., this contract is great news as the recovered fiber will remain in the U.K. supply chain supporting British industry.”

Palm Recycling estimates that about 1,000 metric tons per year of recovered fiber will be collected from Mortons and transferred to Palm’s state-of-the-art mill where it will be reprocessed into fresh newsprint.

For further information on Palm Recycling visit www.palmrecycling.co.uk.