Coffin and Casket Makers
At JC Atkinson we manufacture and distribute over 60,000 coffins a year from our factory in the North East. We’ve a long heritage of producing beautifully crafted coffins from high quality materials. But we like to move with the times and, whilst we haven’t forgotten tradition, we’ve embraced the contemporary with our Reflections picture coffins and Natural Legacy wool coffins.
And it’s not just the end-product that’s important to us: it’s how we get there. We’ve introduced sound environmental approaches to all aspects of production, including setting up the Tree Tribute initiative in 1995 - a pledge to plant a tree for every solid coffin sold. And, on the way we’ve picked up the British Chambers of Commerce National Green Award, Sunday Times Best Green Company 2008 and the North East Business Award for Corporate Social Responsibility 2008.
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Latest news
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30.09.2010
The Natural Legacy by Hainsworth woollen coffins received a royal invite to the Prince Charles’s ‘green’ garden party festival, held at his Clarence House home last month. Organised to promote the small steps consumers can take to building a more sustainable future, the event hosted a vast range of displays and exhibitions supported by some of the UK’s best-known musicians, comedians, environmental experts and businesses.
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01.09.2010
JC Atkinson has launched a brand new service, designed to help those concerned about the environmental impact of their funeral. Greener Goodbyes is only available via participating Funeral Directors and combines a choice of eco-coffin, a Natural Memorial and a Community Legacy which aims to rebalance the carbon emissions of a typical funeral over an estimated two to three year period.
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30.03.2010
JC Atkinson achieved a record month for the number of Reflections Picture Coffins ordered in February 2010. The award winning Coffin manufacturer believes the growing interest in Reflections Picture Coffins – order numbers were 42% higher in 2009 than 2008 - is partly due to Funeral Directors becoming more confident of product quality and turnaround times.
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