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Editor’s Comment
Fast weighbridge upgrade
Statistically, we
may be out of Weightron Bilanciai has carried out a being taken up by the Mainland of Orkney.
the recession, major overhaul and system upgrade on a The Bossack installation is one of the
but it will take a Shering weighbridge at the council UK’s most northerly weighbridges and is
while for the operated Bossack Waste Transfer and used for weighing incoming and outgoing
economy to Landfill Facility, located at Tankerness council and private vehicles up to 30
recover. near Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands. tonne capacity. Waste entering the site
Although we are The project has involved the includes domestic green waste,
not out of the replacement of the existing load cells on commercial waste from private skip hire
woods just yet, the 12 metre, 30 tonne capacity companies, hazardous waste and waste
we must weighbridge, together with the installation electrical goods from other islands within
remember that the end is in sight, and of Weightron’s card-operated Self800 Orkney. Products leaving the site for
congratulate ourselves for getting driver operated terminal and D520 high resale include a range of waste
through this long recession. visibility remote display in place of the recyclables and compost. Weighing is
We are all being advised to proceed existing instrumentation. Time was of the carried out automatically by the delivery-
with caution, and I think that is very essence when the upgrade was carried collection drivers, thereby freeing up site
good advice. During the recession, you out to ensure there was minimum operatives to carry out their normal
may have lost key members of staff and operational disruption at the site. The duties. Each vehicle has its own
have reduced stock and production complete project, including weights and designated swipe card and operators can
levels. Maybe these are things that you measures reverification of the new have multiple cards.
have to consider increasing. Slowly. installation, was carried out by Orkney Council’s operational waste
Business optimism should lead to an Weightron’s engineers in just four days. team leader Jonathan Walters comments:
upturn in orders, so you have to make The Orkney Islands, which have a “Weightron engineers worked closely
sure you are prepared, without getting population of around 20,000 people, are with our personnel and the installation
into trouble yourself. It’s a very fine line! located off the northern tip of Scotland was carried out within our tight time
The UK has done well riding out the where the North Sea and the Atlantic restraints. The new driver operated
long recession, we all buckled down and Ocean meet. Orkney is an archipelago of system is extremely versatile and offers
got on with it, and that is how we need 70 or so islands and covers an area of 974 us important advantages over the original
to continue. square kilometres, with more than half system.”
The one thing the recession taught us
is how to run a tight ship. This new skill
will hopefully remain, and should ensure
your business is more efficient and
profitable in the long-term.
With the news that we are out of the
recession, I wish all our readers and
advertisers a Happy New Year with the
confidence it will be!
Kelly Rose
Editor
kellyrose@quartzltd.com
Combining solid
performance, a
competitive edge,
complementary skills
and awards, Motherwell
Bridge’s Materials
Handling & Process
Engineering Division is
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