After 167-years of making speciality paper and technical fibres, James Cropper plc cannot afford to sit still in a rapidly changing global industry. Yet even with this weight of responsibility for the family business on his shoulders, chairman Mark Cropper has found time to indulge his other passion - hydroelectric power. Will Stirling interviews.
In Mark Cropper’s modest Portobello Road office there is a map of the Lake District peppered with coloured shapes. Each one marks a hydro-electric power plant in differing stages of development. “Our mission was to lead the renaissance of hydropower in this region. We’re doing that,” says Mr Cropper, chairman of James Cropper plc and…
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