More than 100 new jobs are due to be created by a specialist West Yorkshire waste management firm which already has 40 staff, only months after it starting trading.

Sunersol, based in Heckmondwike and Mirfield, was officially launched this month but began trading towards the end of 2010.

The company enables companies to safely discard electrical and other waste materials which is processed and eventually converted back into raw materials for various manufacturing processes.

It has secured contracts with household waste recycling centres throughout the UK for the collection and recycling of electrical and electronic waste products.

Before its official launch at the beginning of April, Sunersol had secured contracts to dispose of more than 20,000 tonnes of waste materials.

It works with councils and waste management companies on a contract basis to collect waste which is processed at Heckmondwike.

The company expects to take on more staff in the next few months, expanding the workforce to more than 150 as new trading divisions are launched.

As part of its approach to electrical waste recycling, Sunersol provides businesses with a container, which it then collects and recycles the contents.

It collects packaging materials, electrical and electronic materials along with processed plastics, ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

Materials are then treated before shipment to processing companies who turn the waste back into manufacturing raw materials.

Sunersol boss Craig Thompson has more than ten years of experience in recycling and was formerly a director of Electrical Waste Recycling Group Limited.

He said he was delighted with the move and had big plans for the new enterprise.

He said: “As a local man, I’m delighted to have created new jobs within the area.

“I have big ambitions for Sunersol and hope the company’s success will have a positive impact on the local community.

“Sunersol’s recycling solution is unique in the UK where the safe and responsible disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment is an ever-increasing problem.”

He said the closed-loop recycling system ensured used equipment collected for recycling has the raw materials, for example plastics, steel, copper or aluminium, generated from the process and fed back into the manufacturing industry.