Minister Welcomes Opening Of Food Recycling Facility

Irish Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment Micheal Martin welcomed the award of a “Category 3 Intermediate Plant License” to Enterprise Ireland client company Food Surplus Management (FSM).

The licence permits FSM to recycle packaged waste food into products for the pet food, animal feed, technical and bio-fuel industries. With supports from Enterprise Ireland, FSM have constructed a new state of the art processing facility at Trim, Co. Meath which is now fully operational and employs 25.

Making the announcement the Minister said: “There are significant opportunities for Irish companies in all areas of waste recycling. Food Surplus Management is an excellent example of an Irish company providing an innovative solution to address the problem of packaged food waste.”

“Recycling waste food is an extremely beneficial activity from both a business and environmental perspective. FSM create value-added products for sale in international markets by providing the Irish manufacturing, wholesale and retail food sector with an EU compliant solution for handling high quality packaged waste food.”

“Furthermore it greatly reduces the amount of food waste sent to landfill in Ireland. Enterprise Ireland is working closely with the company to identify new European market opportunities for its products” the Minister added.

Commenting on the announcement Niall J. Lord, Sales & Marketing Director at FSM said: “Food Surplus Management offers the Irish manufacturing, wholesale and retail food industry a cost effective and environmentally compliant alternative to landfill. FSM currently provides this service to many of Ireland key food producers and distributors including Musgrave Group. FSM is delighted to be the first Irish company to be awarded a Category 3 Intermediate Plant Licence and I would like to thank both Enterprise Ireland and the Department of Agriculture and Food for their support.”

(CD)