- Energy Director of UK’s leading independent supplier of calcium carbonate and limestone powders, granules and aggregates. Longcliffe Group is family-owned, established in 1927, and has a turnover of approximately £30m and 175 employees. Since 2010, electricity & gas usage per tonne has fallen by 28%, ex-works carbon emissions have fallen by 50%, and Longcliffe is now certified to the ISO 50001 energy management standard. Besides quarrying and limestone processing, the wider Longcliffe Group comprises recycling, composting, farming, fishing, forestry, lettings, and residential property businesses- Director of Derbyshire-based Longcliffe Quarries Limited and Ryder Point Wind Limited, and manager of Aberdeenshire-based farming, forestry and sporting business Avochie Estate. Trustee of company final salary pension scheme

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