Roydon Packaging - A great example of a Green Business

The packaging industry often gets a bad press green-wise, but yesterday, I went to a company that deeply cares for our environment.

I was invited to visit Roydon Packaging Factory in the Pinnacles. The company is a major manufacturer of cardboard packages to major businesses and retailers. It was an education for me to see first stage of cardboard arriving from a Mill, being moved from a fork lift truck to machine after machine, and ending up as some serious cardboard packaging.

What was great about this company, was both its employer ethic (many of the employees I met had been there for 20 plus years), but that everything it produces was environmentally sustainable. Not only was all the waste recycled, but the cardboard was all recyclable too. The Managing Director, Simon Coverdale, told me that it was now possible to track paper from a Mill, down to the very tree it had come from. He also noted that all the cardboard the company received, came from sustainable Forests.

This was a very special company, started originally in a garage in Enfield, then moving to Roydon and later to the Pinnacles. Simon, had started on the shop floor at the age of 17, working for his Father who had founded the company. It was a true example of a family run, small business, producing a great product at excellent value. I was very glad to have the opportunity to visit.

By Rob Halfon ~ Working hard for Harlow, Hastingwood, Nazeing, Roydon & Sheering. http//roberthalfon.blogspot.com