Pakawaste Group joins the Thomas Franks Foundation in fight to help the most vulnerable

Pakawaste, the UK’s premier manufacturer and supplier of waste handling equipment, is pleased to be working with The Thomas Franks Foundation, helping and supporting them in their work delivering meals and providing supplies to those in need through the Feeding Communities project.

The Thomas Franks Foundation has been working to deliver meals and other essential supplies to those in need since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Working in conjunction with Thomas Franks Ltd, the privately-owned international catering company, and with generous donations and continued support from their clients and suppliers, Thomas Franks has provided over 475,000 meals across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, and Portugal where they operate. These fresh, healthy, nutritious meals and food parcels have been delivered to NHS staff, key workers, and vulnerable people of all ages.

David Hamer, CEO of the Pakawaste Group, had noted the foundation’s good works and as a native of Royton, was looking for a way to help those in need in the Royton and Preston areas. David reached out to founder of The Thomas Franks Foundation, Frank Bothwell, to see what he could do for the Feeding Communities project and subsequently pledged £2000 for fresh meals, to those in need in Royton and the surrounding areas.

The Thomas Franks Foundation contacted a number of charities in the Oldham region, who are supplying food aid to the area and have established a supply of fresh individually packaged, fresh meals. These meals are prepared at the foundation’s kitchen hub at Abbey Gate College and delivered to those in most need in the Royton area where David was raised and still has family and friends.

David Hamer, CEO of Pakawaste, told us ‘After seeing the news report reference the food poverty in my hometown, I reached out to Frank at The Thomas Franks Foundation regarding their feeding communities’ campaign. I asked Frank if myself and the Pakawaste Group could help in any way. It’s really great to see it in operation’.

Founder of Thomas Franks, Frank Bothwell, commented ‘I am so grateful to David Hamer for his kind donation and support throughout this time. We will continue to provide our services for as long as they are needed, with the continued help. We’re giving back to those who need it, and it feels good.’
Pakawaste has pledged to start in Royton/Oldham and then continue to work with Thomas Franks in other areas where needed, with the next project being Preston.

Pakawaste Ltd,
Rough Hey Road,
Preston, Lancashire,
PR2 5AR,
United Kingdom

Press contact: Don Fryer don@piranha.digital

The Pakawaste Group is the UK’s number one Waste Handling System provider, delivering leading engineering and manufacturing services for waste management and recycling in the UK and abroad.

Already a market leader, Pakawaste is constantly expanding and developing its product offering, rental, service, maintenance, and manufacturing business to meet the changing and diverse demands of its clients.

Company Overview
Based in Preston, Lancashire, Pakawaste offers the largest range of waste handling solutions in the UK. Products range from static to portable compactors, vertical and horizontal balers, waste transfer stations and bins and bin equipment and a variety of other specialist waste handling systems at its purpose-built factory.

In addition to a comprehensive range of standard products, Pakawaste’s expert technical team can engineer bespoke and turnkey solutions to any waste problems that your company may be facing.

Pakawaste also has two sister companies. System Rental, which offers Pakawaste’s premier waste handling equipment on rental or hire purchase agreements and Pakawaste Engineering Services Ltd which has one of the largest networks of strategically placed mobile service engineers. Each engineer operates from fully equipped vehicles and can provide maintenance and service packages including third-party coverage.

Sectors & Markets
Pakawaste supplies a wide range of market sectors, including food processors and manufacturers, hotels and restaurants, supermarkets, shopping centres, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry, logistics companies, manufacturing industries, educational establishments, waste contractors and recycling companies to name but a few.

Pakawaste has also been instrumental in several major individual projects, including developments in Hong Kong and the Middle East. In total, Pakawaste has supplied over 7,000 waste handling systems throughout the UK and Worldwide.

Bespoke Design
Pakawaste’s full in-house design service also offers clients bespoke engineering products. The development and engineering team of electrical, fabrication, mechanical and control system engineers have been providing bespoke design for waste and materials handling systems for over 35 years. They have developed designs from customer ideas and helped to solve problems with existing plant and equipment throughout that time.

Core design business focuses on waste and materials handling systems and other associated equipment from conveyors, bin lifters, balers, compactors through to MRF design, waste to energy plant feeders, transfer stations and RDF bulkers. Utilising a combination of engineering principles and the latest computer software, the design team can put together almost any system that maybe required.

Comprehensive Service Offering
Pakawaste has seen considerable investment in product and service level development. Taking pride in an offering that incorporates the full solution from equipment, accessories, and finance to a comprehensive aftersales maintenance contract.

Pakawaste re-defined maintenance and service agreements in the waste handling sector by widening its remit to encompass third-party equipment.

Whatever type or brand of machine you have on site, Pakawaste’s highly trained and experienced service engineers can now offer you the same first-class service that is available to businesses that own, or lease equipment manufactured and supplied by Pakawaste.

To facilitate its unrivalled level of after sales, preventative maintenance, all-inclusive and 24hr response support service, Pakawaste currently employs a dedicated team of thirty service engineers, based at strategic locations throughout the U.K. for full support coverage.

Pakawaste is very aware of the competitive nature of the waste management and recycling sector and remains focused on keeping ahead of the competition with the provision of the very highest levels of ‘quality and service’ available. It does so by offering a market-leading, comprehensive range of diverse, UK-manufactured waste handling equipment that can meet all our client’s needs. The company also prides itself on providing unmatched bespoke services and the very highest levels of finance provision, maintenance service and customer support.