Panda Waste takes Meath business title
by Ken Davis Updated: Friday, 5th November, 2010 9:30am
Overall winners of the Meath Business of the Year Award (back): David Jervis and David Naughton of Panda Waste, and Frank Mulrennan, director of publishing operations, Celtic Media Group. Front: Olesea Rotundu of Panda Waste, Ken Davis, editor, Meath Chronicle, and Rachel Browne, Panda
Photo: John Quirke.
The local company, which has grown from a two-truck operation in 1973 to a €50m turnover enterprise today with three state-of-the-art facilities in Meath and Dublin, employs some 200 people throughout its three premises.
It is the largest cardboard and paper recycler in Ireland and is currently involved in a major development project to develop refuse-derived fuel from domestic waste.
Its new €21 million plant at Beauparc, announced earlier this year, will convert waste into high-grade compost and a coal sustitute, while also producing electricity. This plant is expected to employ 40 people.
In the tourism category, the overall winner on the night was Trim Castle Hotel.
