Cleansing Service Group (CSG) has boosted its presence in the specialist print industry waste handling sector by acquiring Cambridgeshire-based Saxon Recycling.
CSG, headquartered at Fareham, Hampshire, first ventured into the print sector in 2008 when it bought Dorset-based J&G Environmental, a company that now handles the waste collection of more than 2,000 UK print houses and newspaper groups.
Saxon Recycling, a £2m turnover business and one of J&G’s chief competitors, has been acquired from its owners, Mick Adams and Richard Stimson, who will join CSG for a six-month handover period. Ten other Saxon employees will also join the CSG workforce.
Saxon will continue to trade under its existing name and from its Whittlesford premises near Cambridge but will be managed by J&G’s general manager John Haines.
CSG was established in 1934 and has expanded to become of the UK’s largest privately owned waste management companies. It operates the country’s biggest industrial waste treatment centre at Cadishead, Manchester, where much of the print waste collected by J&G nationally is processed and recycled.
CSG managing director Neil Richards said: “Waste creation is one of the printing industry’s top three environmental impacts and our acquisition of Saxon comes at a time when the industry is enthusiastically embracing more sustainable waste management.
“Like us, Saxon has long supported the goal of routine recycling and re-use of print waste which makes them ideal partners for us. Between them, the two companies can provide the most comprehensive waste management service yet available to the printing industry.”