Sackers

What Sackers does

Sackers is a UK-based commercial waste management company headquartered in Ipswich, Suffolk. Founded in 1929 and operating as a private for-profit business with 51–100 employees, the company has run continuously for nearly a century as a regional player in East Anglia's waste and recycling sector. Its service offering spans scrap metal handling, commercial waste collection, disposal, and recycling, indicating an integrated operation that combines materials recovery (where scrap metals are resold as commodities) with downstream collection and disposal services for commercial customers.

The company's operating model is built around physical asset-intensive activity — collection fleets, scrap processing capacity, and disposal/recycling infrastructure — rather than software or technology platforms. The website (sackers.co.uk) is the primary digital touchpoint, although the source content was inaccessible at the time of research (only a verification/loading screen was rendered), so deeper detail on service lines, technology stack, certifications, customer mix, and pricing is not verifiable from public sources. No funding rounds, M&A, partnerships, leadership changes, or product launches were disclosed in the available data.

Revenue mechanics for this category typically combine recurring contracted waste collection fees with commodity-driven revenue from scrap metal sales, partially insulating margin from pure fee-for-service exposure. However, no direct financial disclosure, headcount trend, pricing model, or customer-segmentation data is available to triangulate current scale or trajectory, leaving the company's strategic positioning and growth posture substantially under-documented from the outside.

Name

Sackers

Website

https://sackers.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1929

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Sackers is a UK-based commercial waste management company, founded in 1929 and headquartered in Ipswich. Employing 51–100 people, it provides scrap metal handling, waste collection, disposal, and recycling services to commercial customers across the East Anglia region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Waste Management

NAICS

Waste Collection (56211), Solid Waste Collection (562111)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial & Commercial Waste Collection (Roll-off/Front-load) (IMAIAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

C&D Waste Collection & Hauling (BPALAJAA), Compactor, Container & Roll-off Services (Rental, Service & Logistics) (EUAIAGAC)

Keywords

• Commercial waste management
• Scrap metal recycling
• Waste collection services
• Waste disposal services
• Recycling services

Headquarters

HQ city

Ipswich

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Core offering

Sackers is a UK-based commercial waste management company providing scrap metal recycling, waste collection, disposal, and recycling services to business customers. Founded in 1929 and headquartered in Ipswich, the company operates with a workforce of 51-100 employees, serving commercial clients with integrated waste handling and recycling solutions.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Scrap Metal Recycling
• Waste Collection
• Waste Disposal
• Recycling Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Veolia UK: UK arm of global environmental services giant Veolia, offering commercial waste, recycling, and resource management. Operates broadly across waste streams and competes with Sackers in commercial accounts, though with vastly greater scale and integrated treatment infrastructure.
• Viridor: UK waste management and recycling company with significant energy-from-waste and recycling assets. Overlaps with Sackers in commercial recycling and disposal, though Viridor is materially larger and infrastructure-heavy.
• Suez Recycling and Recovery UK: UK operations of Suez providing commercial waste collection, recycling, and recovery services. Comparable service portfolio to Sackers, with broader geographic reach and treatment/disposal infrastructure.
• Waste Management, Inc. (UK operations): North American waste services giant with UK commercial waste operations. Competes for multi-site commercial accounts and offers overlapping collection/recycling services, though at substantially larger scale and with global procurement advantages.

Direct peers

• Hills Waste Solutions: Regional UK commercial waste and recycling operator serving the South-West. Closely comparable to Sackers as a privately held, regionally focused commercial waste and recycling business with comparable scale.
• Biffa: The largest UK-focused commercial waste management company, offering collection, recycling, and disposal services across the country. Directly comparable to Sackers across the full commercial waste value chain, though at substantially greater national scale.
• Countrystyle Recycling Services: Kent-based commercial waste, recycling, and resource management company. Comparable to Sackers as a privately owned mid-sized UK operator offering collection, recycling, and waste processing services.
• Grundon Waste Management: Privately held UK waste management company providing commercial waste collection, recycling, and skip hire with strong South/South-East presence. Closely comparable to Sackers in private, mid-sized, multi-service profile.
• FCC Environment: UK division of FCC Environment (part of FCC Group) providing commercial waste collection, recycling, and disposal. Competes head-to-head with mid-sized regional operators like Sackers for municipal and commercial contracts.

Regional players

• Whitehill & Bordon Skip Hire / Pinden Ltd: UK regional waste and recycling operators (representative of the segment Sackers occupies). Comparable in business model — container-based commercial waste, recycling, and skip hire — though serving different UK regions.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ssackers
• Facebookfacebook.com/SackersRecycling
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sackersrecycling

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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