PALLET manufacturing specialist James Jones & Sons has announced it is expanding facilities at its Hetton, Yorkshire, site after obtaining planning consent for a 55,000 sq ft redevelopment.
The business revealed it will redevelop its premises into a ‘green’ facility that will include the installation of a biomass boiler.
The new space is being designed to support the pallet-making process. The biomass boiler will be fuelled by James Jones’s own recycled timber, enhancing the firm’s environmental credentials.
Work is expected to be completed next year.
Peter McKenzie, MD of James Jones’s Pallets and Packaging, said, “We are delighted to receive planning permission for this development. Our business is fully committed to creating a sustainable supply chain and takes every step to ensure that any new developments carefully consider local wildlife and habitats, residents and the environment.
“This development will provide additional employment opportunities for local residents whilst ensuring that the site and activities carried out thereon have little to no impact upon the environment.”
Building Design Northern (BDN), an architectural, structural and civil engineering firm, was engaged to develop the commercial scheme taking the project forward though planning to completion on site. Richard Marsden, MD of BDN, said, “We’re pleased to have been able to support Peter and the James Jones team in shaping plans for a new production facility that will aide their expansion as well as making them a more energy efficient business, which will also help keep energy costs down.
“As a practice, we’re very much focused on developing plans that are kind to the planet, but that also help generate cost efficiencies for energy-intensive businesses like manufacturers, so this was a great project that we’re proud to have supported.”
