Christmas starts early at Leeways when we’re photographed during the summer for our annual creative Christmas card! This year you’ll see us popping out of stockings. Keeping in line with the stocking theme, our specially designed cake platters could also
December 2017 – Additional Warehousing Capacity
To complement our new manufacturing plant that opened earlier this year, we have also added a further 25,000sq/ft warehouse on our Cinderford site. The new building will allow us to store an additional 4,000 pallets of finished goods stock ready
November 2017 – Granulation on our New Site!
Leeways has recently increased granulation capacity in its Cinderford recycling division. The installation of two further 1,000kg per hour Zerma GSE 700/1000 heavy duty granulators will enable Leeways to increase its recycling activities of PET skeletal waste for closed loop
November 2017 – Further Investment
This year has been a superb year at Leeways and further investment in new machining has happened! Firstly, our reinvestment plan to replace some of the older machinery has started; a new WM FC780 machine has been ordered, to compliment
October 2017 – Visit to a UK PET Bottle Processing Plants
We are now using in excess of 8,000,000kg of RPET sheet at Leeways every year. A high percentage of this RPET sheet is made up of hot washed bottle flake used by our supply partners in the extrusion process. This
September 2017 – Staff Fun Day
In September this year, we hosted a staff fun day at Hillside Brewery, Longhope. The day was a chance for our 120 employees to get together outside of the working environment and take part in team building activities. The day
August 2017 – More Leeways Trailers hit the Road!
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added 3 more Leeways branded trailers (now totalling 9) to the fleet this month. We’re now delivering over 35,000 pallets per year so keep your eyes peeled for them travelling all over the UK…
July 2017 – Our Longest Serving Employee Turns 70!
Les Sterry, started his employment with Leeways in March 1969, some 48 years ago. He reached the right old age of 70 in July 2017 and although is reducing his hours, still remains involved in maintaining the Leeways Group factories
July 2017 – AA BRC Accreditation
This year our BRC inspection was bought forward to July to incorporate the new Cinderford Manufacturing unit. We are happy to announce that not only has our Churcham site yet again been award an AA Accreditation, our new warehouse has
May 2017 – Opening of New Manufacturing Plant and Recycling Facility
So far 2017 has been a busy (and very exciting) year for the team at Leeways! May saw the opening of our new state of the art manufacturing facility in the heart of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The new