Robert Hill, left, with Alan Pardoe, right, and standing Michael Hill

Chippenham Aluminium Recycling Service, based at the Middlefield Centre, are the owners of a new recycling van donated by The Hills Group.

Keys to the vehicle were handed to Hazel Matthews, community connection and development manager for the Wiltshire Employment Support Team of Wiltshire County Council, The van will be used to ensure that aluminium foil, recycled by Wiltshire households via the kerbside collection scheme, is transported to the Middlefield Centre, where it is sorted and baled, and then sent for reprocessing.

The success of the project has been attributed to Wiltshire residents who support the kerbside recycling scheme and place clean aluminium in separate bags into their kerbside recycling boxes. The boxes are collected and sorted by Hills.

Hills also announces changes at the top of the Marlborough-based group.

For the first time in 25 years the quarry products, waste, recycling and new homes business has a member of the Hills family in its top job as Mike Hill takes over from Alan Pardoe as chief executive.

With Alan moving to become chairman, Mike's father, Robert Hill, relinquishes that role after a quarter of a century.

Robert Hill's employment with the group spans more than 43 years with his involvement going back to boyhood when he helped his father, Grahame, and his uncles at the company's former brickworks at Kingshill.

But he credited much of the success to Alan Pardoe, who joined 38 years ago as an assistant management accountant and progressed to become group chief executive in 1992.

Since then, the company has consolidated and enhanced its position as an important regional aggregates producer, become a serious player in the waste management and recycling sector and entered the house building market.

8:00am Friday 2nd May 2008

Mike Webster, divisional MD of Hills Waste Solutions hands over the keys to Hazel Matthews

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