The Cotswold Life EMI Awards 2018 took place at Cheltenham Racecourse on September 20th, these awards celebrate the region’s best innovative engineering and manufacturing companies. Leeways are immensely proud to have won the Sustainable Manufacturing Award category and reached the finals
Tom Edmonds – 40 years in Packaging
A huge congratulations to the one and only Tom Edmonds on achieving 40 years today in the Plastic Packaging Industry. He’s such a font of knowledge and a real joy to work alongside.
Wow, what an achievement!
Left: Lee Walding – Managing Director, Mrs Nicky Benjamin & Anthony Marshall Production Director Wow, what an achievement! There are not many people in the world that can say this, but Nicky Benjamin is definitely one! In the last
Members of staff attended a “Entrepreneurial Skills” course and completed the “Management Skills”
19th March several key members of staff attended a “Entrepreneurial Skills” course and completed the “Management Skills”. Leeways pride themselves in ensuring they are kept up-to-date with their leadership training. Left: Adam Walding, Lee Walding, Peter Lane, Nicki Townsend,
Level 2 NVQ Certificate in “Team Leading”
Picture: Left: Lee Walding – Managing Director, Dan Sidwell – Maintenance Engineer, Phil Little – Engineering Manager, Liann Bennett– Top Level Tool Setter, Adam Walding – Finance Director, Ant Marshall – Production Director and Jade Lisseman – Betaris Training
December 2017 – Christmas at Leeways!
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