Parry & Evans

Steve Evans became the third generation of the family to become involved in 1977, and in 1981 Parry & Evans moved to new premises on Severn Farm Industrial Estate as the business grew into the waste paper recycling industry. The Severn farm operation has since expanded and is now on a one and a half acre site with Lee and Jordan Evans, Steve's sons, becoming the fourth generation of the family to join the company after each graduated with degrees in Environmental Management from Northampton University. Six years ago, with demand rising, Parry & Evans opened a new plant on Deeside now managed by nephew Nick Owen, and recognising the growing need for the safe storage and destruction of confidential waste, also opened new premises in Leighton Buzzard after forming a franchise partnership with specialist company Reisswolf. A second Reisswolf operation at the Welshpool site provides a secure confidential waste archive and destruction service to the whole of Wales and the North West of England. And recently, an on-site shredding service, operating out of the Deeside site, was launched to further serve the needs of customers in the North Wales area. Following in-depth consulting on data protection, archiving and disposal, training and health & safety, Parry & Evans and its Reisswolf operation have worked hard to achieve the industry standard recognition of both ISO 9001 and ISO 27000, demonstrating its commitment to working to the highest quality standards. Today, Parry & Evans employs nearly 100 people, operates more than 30 vehicles with more than 200 skips deployed nationwide. Graders of materials recycled range from cardboard, plastic, confidential waste paper and tapes, through to newspaper and pamphlets and best white grade one paper. All waste paper is graded, baled and stored on site, ready for transportation to paper mills across the world. The company has specialist processing machinery for preparing materials for their return to use as useful materials. Custom equipped hook lift vehicles exchange full paper and cardboard banks from a wide range of locations such as supermarket car parks, village community halls and local authority and commercial premises and hospitals. And bespoke shredding machinery, operating to the strictest of controls, shreds confidential waste so that it becomes useful recyclable material. Parry & Evans skips can be spotted in all the major council, community and supermarket car parks for the disposal of cardboard and paper. Where a larger skip is required, Parry & Evans provides an 'open bin' which is loaded from the top by forklift or similar loader or a 'closed bin' that is loaded through a rear lockable access door. So whatever the type, quantity, form or location of fibre-based material, the company is equipped to collect and reprocess it for re-use again. Parry & Evans is totally committed to a policy of maximum reclaim of recyclable materials using the best available equipment and practices to do that. Liaising closely with the local authorities and with the help of local communities, the company is working to reduce the amount of waste that is land filled and reclaim as much as possible, to the benefit of the environment and the local economy.