BUSINESS
MARLIN ENVIRONMENTAL James Neno
Richard Neno
Brothers James and Richard Neno purchased the company, headquartered in Chichester, from their father Alan in 2018, to carry on the family business. Marlin Environmental Services is a truly family-run business established in July 2003, combining more than 30 years of experience serving specialised segments of the marine and related industrial markets. Formed to harness the vast experience of its directors and managers, to fill gaps identified in the industry, their goals then were as they are now - to provide their customers with a professional and cost-effective service at sites and locations across the UK and
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Have you ever asked yourself the question – how do aircraft carriers clean out their bilge tanks? Probably not but the answer is they don’t - they call Marlin Environmental Services.
beyond. To survive in the competitive marine sector, they recognised they had to diversify and fill as many market gaps as possible, and they certainly achieved that goal.
Quite apart from the services such as tank and bilge cleaning, exhaust clearing, ultra sonic cleaning, vapour blasting and waste management with a fleet of eight vacuum tankers offering a capacity of 100,000 litres, they also recognised the need for total health and safety compliance, achieving UKAS standards 9001, 14001 and 18001 and full IOSH training. This satisfied the needs of their largest client, the Ministry of Defence. Then they were hit with the pandemic and had another major job on their hands. To survive, they split the business in two parts and ran two shift patterns of 14 days each, thus allowing
