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Certified ISO 14001: 2004
Environmental Management Standards |
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Vellco wins environmental award for the third time! | Feb 2010 |
VELLCO & NYCC sign new Contract for Recycling Tyres | July 2009 |
VELLCO & National Tyres & Autocare sign new Contract | July 2009 |
TAFF Awards 2009 | July 2009 |
A European Fact Finding Mission | July 2008 |
Vellco Wins Environmental Accreditation | July 2008 |
Vellco wins Goodyear Dunlop retail & fleet contracts | May 2008 |
A year of successful consolidation and environment awareness | Jan 2008 |
Recognition for Excellence | July 2007 |
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Vellco wins environmental award for the third time!
Over the last few years Vellco has been very pro-active in promoting "carbon-neutrality" for a number of its customers which will result this year in two leading National Automotive Retailers achieving this unique status within the Tyre Retailing Sector.
Vellco is also very proud to have had its Environmental Accreditation Standard 14001 independently renewed at the beginning of the year. This, along with Full Membership of the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA), and its Responsible Recycler Scheme further assures its customers of a completely transparent, auditable, and environmental recycling process for all waste collections.
Car Tyres, Truck Tyres, Agricultural Tyres, Industrial Tyres & Earthmover Tyres recycling are only part of Vellco's environmental picture.
Additionally, the Vellco Group manages Automotive Waste on behalf of many of its customers including Oil, Oil Filters, Antifreeze, Metal Waste, Catalytic Convertors, Confidential Paper, General Dry Trade Waste.
In the last year, Vellco together with their chosen Dry Waste Contractor, has rolled out to all customers utilising "Dry Waste", additional containers for the collection of Paper & Cardboard. This not only means that better segregation of wastes is being carried out at the point of arising, but also reduces the frequency of collection - which reduces vehicle emissions - whilst at the same time increasing the recycling of this waste stream.
These are some of the reasons which have assisted Vellco win the Tyre and Fast Fit Awards Environmental Category, for the third time in five years.
Vellco previously won this award in 2004, 2007 and now again in 2009.
John Campbell, Business Development Director for the Vellco Group commented, “I am very proud and pleased to accept this TAFF award from the Tyre Industry on behalf of the entire team at Vellco. This vindicates our continuing insistence on maintaining professional and quality processes with our Customers. It is particularly pleasing to be accepting this award for third time in five years”.
Note:
Vellco currently recycles over 5 million passenger car tyres, over half a million heavy truck tyres, over 2,500 Agricultural & Industrial Tyres, and over 100 Earthmover Tyres annually. None of these tyres are landfilled. 100% are recycled.
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VELLCO & NYCC sign new Contract for Recycling Tyres
Vellco Tyre Control has announced that it has agreed a new one year Contract with North Yorkshire County Council, to collect, and recycle scrap tyre arisings from the entire County, generated from the Household Waste & Recycling Centres, as well as from fly-tipping incidents throughout North Yorkshire.
Vellco Tyre Control, who were awarded the Contract against several other bidders, are delighted to have been chosen by NYCC as their Contractor for this business.
Commenting on this agreement, Bob Fell, Operations Director of Vellco Tyre Control said, “We are absolutely delighted to sign this agreement with North Yorkshire County Council, whom we have already worked with for a number of years. We are committed to giving a professional service throughout the entire Vellco operation, and this is borne out by the confidence that NYCC has demonstrated by utilising Vellco, and our ability to deliver what they need”.
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VELLCO & National Tyres & Autocare sign new Contract
Vellco Tyre Control has announced that it has agreed a new eighteen month Total Waste Management Contract with National Tyres & Autocare to collect, recycle and/or reprocess all Automotive Waste arisings including scrap tyres, hazardous waste, catalytic convertors, metal waste, and General Dry Trade Waste from all National's 206 Retail Centres throughout the United Kingdom.
Vellco Tyre Control, who have been working in partnership with NTA for over twelve years, are delighted to have been chosen by NTA as their Contractor to continue forward with this business.
In addition to the services referred to above, NTA is now segregating all paper and cardboard from their Dry Trade Waste, as well as recycling all of their other waste streams.
NTA is expecting to achieve carbon-neutrality by the end of this year.
Commenting on this agreement, Peter Harries, Director of National Tyres & Autocare said, “We are absolutely delighted to sign this agreement with Vellco, whom we have already worked with for a number of years. Vellco meets our organisation's needs in every area and provides a very professional and reliable service which we value”.
John Campbell, Business Development Director of Vellco Tyre Control said, “Vellco is committed to giving a professional service throughout our entire operation, and this is borne out by the confidence that NTA has demonstrated by choosing Vellco with our ability to deliver what they need”.
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2009 TAFF Awards
" Vellco Tyre Control is particularly delighted to have been short listed in the Environmental Category for the 2009 TAFF Awards.
Over the last 2-years Vellco has been very pro-active in promoting "carbon-neutrality" for a number of its customers which will result this year in a leading National Automotive Retailer achieving this unique status within the Tyre Retailing Sector.
Vellco is also very proud to have had its Environmental Accreditation Standard 14001 independently renewed at the beginning of the year. This, along with Full Membership of the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA), and its Responsible Recycler Scheme further assures our customers of a completely transparent, auditable, and environmental recycling process for all waste collections.
Car Tyres, Truck Tyres, Agricultural Tyres, Industrial Tyres & Earthmover Tyres recycling are only part of Vellco's environmental picture.
Additionally, the Vellco Group manages Automotive Waste on behalf of many of its customers including Oil, Oil Filters, Antifreeze, Metal Waste, Catalytic Convertors, Confidential Paper, General Dry Trade Waste.
In the last year, Vellco together with their chosen Dry Waste Contractor, has rolled out to all customers utilising "Dry Waste", additional containers for the collection of Paper & Cardboard. This not only means that better segregation of wastes is being carried out at the point of arising, but also reduces the frequency of collection - which reduces vehicle emissions - whilst at the same time increasing the recycling of this waste stream.
In 2008, Vellco recycled over 5 million passenger car tyres, over half a million heavy truck tyres, over 1,000 Agricultural Tyres, over 1,000 Industrial Tyres, and over 100 Earthmover Tyres. None of these tyres were landfilled. 100% were recycled.
We are very proud of our track record.
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Vellco: A European fact finding mission
As one of the largest and most active truck tyre casing specialists in the UK, North Yorkshire based Vellco Tyre Control (VTC) made their international debut at Reifen 2008 to examine the possibilities of expanding their operation into Europe.
The ultimate objective at the show was to promote the company's UK operation to European visitors to see what interest was shown in the services that Vellco provide. At the same time it was a perfect opportunity to meet with existing customers as the event is heavily supported by visitors from the UK.
Managing Director, Chris Fell, Casing Director, Bob Fell and Business Development Director, John Campbell –were all in attendance at the show and a number of interesting and potentially lucrative meetings took place.
John Campbell says," There is no doubt that being part of the show was a very positive move for Vellco and we now have a lot of interesting options to consider as the company examines the viability of entering the European casing market in the future." |
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A year of successful consolidation and environment awareness
As yet another trading year concludes Vellco Tyre Control (VTC) can look back on an exciting and successful period which has included a consolidation of many aspects of the company's business activities.
2007 will be remembered for a number of reasons including winning the TAFF Award for best environmental company and the growing success of VTC's tyre collection partners – Midland Tyre Control in the Midlands and Western Tyres in the South West of England.
At the same time the company's fleet of collection vehicles has undergone significant changes in order to take into account new EC regulations on emissions. Also, multi tasking vehicles now operate under the VTC trading banner which collect car, truck, industrial and agricultural tyres along with CAT's and exhausts thus eliminating more vehicles than necessary and enhancing the company's Carbon Footprint.
Vellco has also entered into a new partnership with Reprocessore which includes supplying cement fuel operations and granulation companies with scrap tyres therefore further enhancing the tyre recycling procedure.
John Campbell, Business Development Director at Vellco says, “We are working with a lot of companies in these fields which inspires confidence and demonstrates to our customers that they can completely trust the sound and legal procedures we take and underlines our responsibilities towards the environment.”
Vellco is also a founder member of the Tyre Recovery Association which promotes 'Best Practice' within the industry. Further proof of Vellco's total commitment comes from their ISO 14001 accreditation and VTC look forward to enhancing their position in the casing collection market during 2008.
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Vellco Tyre Control: Recognition for excellence!
2007 is only halfway through but already it is proving to be another successful year for Vellco Tyre Control (VTC), one of the UK's largest independent used tyre collection specialists.
With European legislation banning the landfill of shredded tyres from July 2006, like most other companies in the market, Vellco has seen a marked increase in the demand for their nationwide tyre & automotive waste collection services.
VTC's Business Development Director, John Campbell says, "To cope with this planned increase in business, we invested in our existing facilities and services over the
past year, with probably the most significant project being the further development of the company's customer Call Centre in Weaverthorpe, North Yorkshire"
Under the leadership of Office Manager Mandy Barnett, the call centre has employed additional experienced staff to pro-actively manage Vellco's nationwide customer base which includes hundreds of sites of some of the large national retail networks in both car and truck sectors of the market.
There has also been the need to increase the Company's collection vehicle and trailer fleet, and an additional fifteen MAN vehicles acquired during 2006 and early 2007 have together complemented Vellco's comprehensive daily collection fleet at the start of 2007.
However, one of the most exciting and satisfying development occurred in May when Vellco were named as Environmental Company of the Year at this year's prestigious TAFF Awards at the NTDA Dinner in Manchester.
News of this accolade was published in last month's edition of Tyre Trade News and John states, "Winning this award means a great deal to literally everyone as well as lowering at Vellco as it is a most welcome reward for all our staff's hard work and ongoing dedication in ensuring Vellco maintains their extremely high level of service to the industry." |
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Vellco Wins Environmental Accreditation
Vellco Tyre Control, one of the UK's largest used tyre Management Companies, has just succeeded in being awarded a coveted further three year 14001 Environmental Accreditation for the Company, whose Head Office is based in Weaverthorpe, North Yorkshire.
This Environmental Standard which is viewed as the flagship recognition of environmental standards and processes for any Company, is true testimony of an all-round team effort by Vellco's employees, to attain such status.
The team involved with this project was headed by Margaret Snell, who has spent many hours in putting together all the relevant procedures required by this Standard.
Stephen Ford, Vellco's Environmental Manager, who is also Vice President of the Tyre Recovery Association said, “This award represents Vellco's commitment to the Environment which is extremely important to us especially in the present climate of increasing focus being placed on environmental matters.
It is particularly important for us to have this accreditation when tendering for business in both the Public and Private Sector, and I am delighted that Vellco has achieved this award”. |
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Vellco wins Goodyear Dunlop retail & fleet contracts
Goodyear/Dunlop has awarded a prestigious two-year contract to Vellco Tyre Control for the collection and recycling of tyres from HiQ Tyre Services, Truck Force, the Royal Mail, British Telecom and the Police Authorities, which begins during September 2008.
This is the first time that Goodyear Dunlop has joined all these areas together as a combined Single Service Sector, and Vellco has been successful in gaining this business in front of several market competitors.
Mark Brickhill, Group Managing Director of Goodyear Dunlop in the UK, said that the choice of Vellco was made by taking into account the wide variety of Vellco's environmental credentials as well as the professional capability of the Vellco team to deliver what Goodyear Dunlop require.
Business Development Director of Vellco, John Campbell commented " I am absolutely thrilled and delighted that Goodyear Dunlop has decided to award this business to our Company, and Vellco will strive to ensure that we surpass the expectations of Goodyear Dunlop in the implementation of all the various business sectors which we have been given".
In line with Goodyear Dunlop's Environmental Policy, Vellco is underwriting an assurance to completely recycle all tyre casings collected from the various business sectors, as well as lowering the carbon footprint by utilising single vehicles to complete multi-sector and multi-product collections, thereby reducing the overall environmental impact. |
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