Smurfit Kappa Recycling Promotes Porter-Walker to Newly Created Position

Smurfit Kappa Recycling, Dublin, has promoted Deborah Porter-Walker to the newly created position of national account manager.

In her new position, Porter-Walker will focus on helping retailers, manufacturers, facilities managers and other corporate customers and local authorities to increase recycling rates.

“Deborah has a key role to play in proactively supporting our customers and helping them to make the most of any recycling opportunities,” says Simon Weston, managing director of Smurfit Kappa Recycling. “We are looking to add value to the relationship we have with our national customers and work with them to maximize their recycling in any way we can.”

The company also announced that Martyn Needs will replace Porter-Walker as commercial manager for the East Midlands region. Martyn brings more than 15 years’ experience in the recycling industry and an in-depth knowledge of his home region. In his new role he will work with local authorities, retailers, logistics and distributions operators, printers and wide variety of businesses throughout the region to develop Smurfit Kappa Recycling’s paper and board recycling collection business.

Smurfit Kappa, which operates paper mills in Birmingham and Kent, U.K., reprocess about 500,000 metric tons of material per year.