Stourbridge MP Suzanne Webb has thrown her support behind a Lye aggregate waste recycling company’s £2 million expansion plans.
Pegasus Grab Hire, based in Bott Lane, has grown into a multi-million business offering the product to local construction firms and it is a major supplier to utility companies.
Founded and led by Anthony Hall, it employs more than 180 people and is now the number one company in the West Midlands for aggregates, grab hire and waste removal.
Pegasus now wants permission to build a mobile wash plant to recycle 99% of all waste received at the facility, which will lead to 30 more jobs – many of them for young people.
Suzanne said she supported the proposals and she was also impressed with the company’s youth employment programme with 50% of employees under 25.
“Pegasus is a real success story, not just for Lye, but for the whole West Midlands and I am very supportive and very excited to hear about these plans to invest when I recently visited,” said Suzanne.
“I think it is a business jewel in the crown for the constituency and I hope these plans for a massive investment in new facilities will come to fruition. The hiring of even more young people from the local area when there is a great need for such jobs is a major plus for me too.
“If they are successful the new wash plant will be the only one in the West Midlands and it shows there is real optimism locally despite the present pandemic difficulties because entrepreneurs, like Anthony, are making a success and employing and training local people into the bargain.”
