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CJ SHEERAN is Ireland’s largest supplier of timber packaging and pallets, providing a premium quality, sustainable and accredited packaging solution to Ireland and the UK’s diverse network of pallet consumers in the Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Technological, Engineering and General Manufacturing Sectors.

We produce a broad range of both standard and specialised timber packaging and pallet modules to include pallets, cases, crates, boxes, potato boxes, skids and dunnage and also recover in excess of 1.2m pallets per annum.

CJS are the only pallet manufacturing company in Ireland to hold all 3 core ISO Certifications (ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS18001) as well as FSC® and Sedex SMETA 4 Pillar Conformity.  We are setting industry standards in terms of quality, service and value for money.  We offer a complete packaging solution for your business.  With separately licensed plants in Laois, Dublin and Mayo we provide our customers with an unrivaled service and business continuity.

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Email: info@cjs.ie
LoCall: 1800 201 765
Tel: 057 875 6700
Shannon Street, Mountrath, Co. Laois

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CJ SHEERAN: Ireland’s leading pallet supplier.

Mark Sheeran, UL Alumni Award Recipient 2019

The University of Limerick Alumni has bestowed its highest honour on four of the University’s outstanding graduates at the 14th Annual UL Alumni Awards Gala Dinner held on November 9th at the Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick.

Hosted annually by the UL Alumni organisation, this annual event celebrates the outstanding achievements of graduates and this year the calibre of alumni honoured remained high.

Mark Sheeran, Managing Director of CJ Sheeran Limited, was honoured for his contribution to Business. Following his graduation from UL in 1988 with a Bachelor of Business Studies, Mark worked in various roles in both London and San Francisco. He returned to Ireland in 1994 to work alongside his late father, Canice, in a burgeoning timber business in Coolrain with just 5 employees at the time including themselves.

With over 25 years’ personal experience in the timber industry combined with an in-depth knowledge of the pallet and packaging industry, Mark oversees the strategic growth of the company including acquisitions and international sales.

The company provides a premium quality, sustainable and accredited packaging solution to Ireland and the UK’s diverse network of pallet users. The customer portfolio encompasses almost every industry: food, dairy, infant nutrition, ingredients, drinks, distillery, meat, seafood, medical devices, pharmaceutical, technological – you name it, CJS pallets ship it.

As the only pallet manufacturing business in Ireland to have an unrivalled suite of quality and sustainability accreditations in place, CJS has become a world-class business making pallets that carry globally recognised products all over the world. In growing the business, Mark moved quickly to spread the risk and dilute dependency. Having secured a number of lucrative contracts in the technology sector, the business’s first major investment was the purchase of a former sawmills in Mountrath in 2002.

The new premises had a kiln which enabled CJS to perform ISPM15 heat-treatments on their pallets, a global standard regulated by the Forest Service to prevent the spread of invasive insects throughout the world on wood packaging, a standard whcih has proven itself instrumental for CJS, with over 85% of the company’s output now treated this way.

The Mountrath site also had a pressure treatment plant which enabled the business to also diversify into Garden and Farm Timber Products, under the brand name The Garden Gate by CJ Sheeran.

At the same time, CJS set up a Pallet Recovery Division which has now grown to be Ireland’s largest, recovering over 2m used pallets per annum. The business very successfully weathered the storm of the last recession through Mark’s innate ability to pre-empt and to diversify.

Entrepreneurial instinct saw Mark seize an opportunity in 2008 to develop an innovative equine bedding material from recovered timber residue. ComfyBed Equine Bedding has become one of the company’s many success stories, receives accolade from many of the equine industry’s elite and has been the resident sponsor of the RDS Dublin Horse Show since 2011, bedding out some of the world’s best showjumpers and eventers.

In 2012, CJS acquired a major competitor in the pallet sector, a move that proved instrumental in the phenomenal fivefold growth that the business has realised over the past seven years. In 2015, CJS also purchased a second site in Mountrath.

Mark has continued on an acquisition trail and over the past 36 months has acquired a further three pallet businesses with more in the pipeline so as to continue the comapny’s very impressive growth trajectory.

With six manufacturing, warehousing and distribution depots now across Ireland, the largest kiln drying and heat-treatment capacity in Ireland and the UK, as well as three state-of-the-art pallet manufacturing lines with a combined production capacity of 5m pallets per annum, the company also operates its own logistics fleet.

Mark has assembled a team of incredibly loyal, dedicated, committed and talented staff, with further education and personal development a cornerstone of staff retention. While truly honoured, Mark deflects full credit to his incredible team who have been fundamental in the business’s success to-date and also to our local community for their continuous support over the years.

The three other winners are as follows:

Tipperary woman Maeve Lewis, Executive Director of One in Four, the Irish Charity Supporting adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, was honoured for her contribution to Society.

Eleven times All-Ireland medallist, Cork Footballer Bríd Stack was honoured for her contribution to Sport.

While former Chief Technology Officer and VP at Analog Devices, Limerick man Peter Real, who died earlier this year, was honoured posthumously for his contribution to Science & Technology.

The Awards took place at Limerick’s Castletroy Park Hotel with UL alumna, Ruth Scott, Radio and TV presenter as MC.

Over 220 guests from the University, business and the wider community attended this black-tie dinner which was also supported by Analog Devices Ireland, Cantor Fitzgerald, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ) Solicitors and Stryker Ireland.

Since its inception in 2006, only forty-seven from a global alumni community of 100,000 have now received this prestigous honour.

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