Thrust into a managing director role as a teenager, Jacqueline O'Donovan has bucked every trend in the waste sector. After selling her family's multi-million pound company to a Swedish giant, she's got an open road and many plans.
The former owners of Beauparc are back in the waste and energy business after acquiring the Huntstown biogas project. Developed to generate gas from brown bins, the plant is not yet in commercial operation.
The Irish unit of the US-listed specialist waste collector, which holds the contract for the public health system, has achieved record margins in the past two years.
Entrepreneur Pat Alley has spent three years fighting on multiple fronts. Yet his enthusiasm for Trifol, a potentially game-changing business that turns end-of-life plastic into wax, remains undimmed.
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