Granox Ltd (PDM Group) - Granox Ltd (PDM Group)

Since its foundation in Doncaster in 1926, the PDM Group (Prosper De Mulder Ltd.) has grown to become the UK's largest food chain by-product recycler.

Today, the family-run business has evolved to offer the UK's food industry integrated food chain recycling services.

PDM provides nationwide collections to every part of the food chain - from farm gate to dinner plate. PDM prides itself on being the only company in the UK to be able to offer a complete portfolio of solutions for food waste recycling.

The family-owned group of companies has an annual turnover in excess of £200 million and employs over 1,100 people at 22 sites across the UK.

Serving abattoirs, butchers' shops, food manufacturers and supermarkets, PDM processes over one million tonnes of animal by-products each year.

With five rendering plants located across the country, PDM is able to provide local processing for each different category (1, 2 and 3) of ABP and process them into a range of different products, be it as diverse as energy or pet food ingredients.

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The animal by-products industry has always been a vital part of the food production chain across the world, providing valuable new products such as tallow and protein meal from residues from meat production.

Recent years have seen huge new challenges to the ways in which this industry has conventionally operated and the markets it serves.

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PDM Group is a major supplier of feed-fat blends to the farmed animal feed industry in the UK. PDM Group's FEMAS (Feed Materials Assurance Scheme) accredited feed-fat blending operation supplies a wide range of blends to customers such as feed millers, compounders and integrated poultry companies.

The blends are produced to strict guidelines using vegetable oils such as palm and soya oil imported from Asia and South America as well as vegetable cooking oils from UK food factories.

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The UK is committed to producing more energy from sustainable or renewable sources in order to limit climate change. In addition the UK also has a legal obligation under the EU Landfill Directive to reduce the amount of bio-degradeable material being sent to landfill.

PDM Group's renewable energy operations help in achieving both of these vitally important environmental goals.

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The technology developed by PDM Group has proven to surpass its design parameters in all respects - environmental emissions, burn efficiency, capacity and energy yield. This has established PDM Group's renewable energy operations as true world leaders, with many overseas companies and governments wishing to emulate the PDM Group system.

Following the heightened attention throughout Europe and North America to the perceived risk to human and animal health of certain animal by-products, there is little doubt that efficient and commercially viable combustion represents a major investment opportunity.

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Animal By-Products & Waste Food

We are all becoming increasingly aware of the need to reduce our environmental impact through reducing our carbon footprint and creating a more sustainable lifestyle.

Organisations in the foodchain are able to reduce their carbon footprints by diverting unsold or unusable 'waste products' from landfill to create renewable energy.

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At the very heart of the country's largest animal oils and fats production facility you'll find Nortech. With continuous 24/7 refining, production and packing processes the company delivers completely flexible and completely separate animal and vegetable based product ranges.

At each and every stage of production the highest standards of quality, consistency and efficiency are applied. With in-house laboratory batch testing and extensive, modern cold-storage resources, the capability is as diverse as the growing product range.

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