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Crisps firm goes green
WHAT credit crunch? A local crisp company is thriving with sales up by over 28 per cent year on year and increased output.
And to keep up with orders, Yorkshire Crisps has decided to reuse its vegetable oil to power its lorries.
The premium crisp manufacturer, based in Maltby, is working with Phoenix Fuels, of Nottingham, which prides itself on developing sustainable bio-fuels by recycling food products.
The bio-fuel will be used to power the lorries which deliver parsnips to the factory. The same lorries will collect the vegetable oil used for cooking the crisps to take back to the farm where it is turned into bio-fuel.
Yorkshire Crisps managing director Tony Bishop says: "This used sunflower oil is a bi-product of crisp manufacture. If this can be used as fuel for deliveries to our factory, then everybody's costs are reduced, from production to delivery and it is a great way to help the environment."
Established in 2005, Yorkshire Crisps was founded by businessman Ashley Turner whose family businesses have been established in Sheffield for over 100 years.
The crisps are sold in Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Cooperative stores across Yorkshire, at farmers' markets and at independent retailers across the UK, including Fortnum & Mason, Harvey Nichols and Selfridges.
The company is sole crisp supplier to all Andrew Lloyd Webber's theatres and distributes to Spain, France, Denmark, Norway, Greece and Thailand.
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