Key benefits

  • Over 25,000 products
  • In-house branding
  • Your own account team
  • Own van deliveries

The Yorwaste Case Study

Yorwaste logo.

Kevin Smith

Head of Corporate Services

SMI have provided a quality service to Yorwaste.

They are reliable, proactive, and offer quality products which are value for money. I can highly recommend them as a PPE supplier.

Yorwaste workers.
  • 350

    Staff Members

  • 27

    Delivery Locations

  • 2013

    Partnership Started

The Challenge

Yorwaste is the largest Waste Management Company in North Yorkshire and York, providing over half a million business waste and trade waste collections.

SMI were tasked with providing products that could meet the challenges of their waste environments, in all weathers and conditions.

Initially, the challenge was focused on finding:

Yorwaste building.

The Solution

SMI engaged very closely with Key Stakeholders at the Yorwaste Operational Depots and carried out trials of ROWEAR® brands over 8-week period.

The staff trialling the products were provided a simple feedback form for them to write their responses.

The results were very positive, and staff realised the products offered were of the right standard to meet the tough, rigorous Waste & Recycling Environments.

All our products were competitively priced and lasted longer than their previous supplier’s products.

Yorwaste waste workers.

Hear What Yorwaste Had to Say

Throughout the period SMI have worked closely with Yorwaste to ensure that the level of service and the quality of product is to the standard we require.

They have worked particularly hard on the provision of gloves and safety footwear to meet our rather stringent demands and they continue to offer new products as they come to market.

The core products are based on the ROWEAR® brand, and we have found this to be of a high quality and good value for money.

If we have ever reported a problem, which has occurred, they are very proactive in resolving the situation and ensuring that a fix is in place to reduce the likelihood of the problem occurring again.

Their online ordering system is easy, efficient, and has the necessary checks in place to ensure that as a business we have maintained control over what can and cannot be ordered.

Kevin Smith, Head of Corporate Services
Archie Prisgrove - SMI

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  • Wearer trials to test real-world performance
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  • Practical support for large and complex workforces

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