News Move to help meet high targets
One of the countries leading recyclers has moved into a new facility to help meet its targets of 90% material recycling. Britaniacrest Recycling is one of largest privately owned waste and recycling contractors in the south east of England. Covering East & West Sussex, the company has been growing steadily over the last 16 years.
A fleet of modern road vehicles cover the ground collecting local authority, housing association and commercial wastes. Additional waste is delivered to the Gatwick site from local authority and third party waste contractors. A new 2100m² dedicated recycling hall was opened in the summer of 2009. The portal steel frame building was supplied and erected by Shufflebottom Steel Frame Buildings of South Wales and included precast concrete push wall panels. The new facility was completed with the installation of the sorting and picking line enabling rapid sorting of the incoming waste. Sorting waste within the new building has a number of benefits. Whilst there are obvious benefits from storing materials under cover, particularly cardboards, the new building also enables plasterboard to be recycled. This is the ultimate recycling as the waste board is used in the production of new plasterboard to complete the circle.
ACP Concrete of Staffordshire supplied the walls both to the new building and the sorting line. ACP’s prestressed concrete push wall panels are a common sight in waste reception halls, but the installation into the sorting line was more unusual. Its is usual for panels to be fitted to the building support columns providing a smooth easy clean surface and protecting the columns from the loading shovels. Beneath the sorting line the panels are fitted between the support legs of the trommel. These units were installed during the construction of the sorting
Chronos secures packing system order
Chronos BTH has secured an order from Border Aggregates to supply a new fully automatic packing system for their Carnforth facility in North Lancashire. Border Aggregates are suppliers of sands, natural aggregates and stone products to the landscaping and construction industry throughout the United Kingdom. The new packing system is due for installation later this year and is being supplied on a turnkey basis as part of Border Aggregates’ plant expansion and upgrade programme. Once installed the packing system will be used for filling pre-made polyethylene bags with various products at rates of up to 800 bags/hour.
An important feature of the new packing system is the in-built flexibility that Chronos BTH has been able to incorporate into the main bag filling station. This flexibility gives Border Aggregates the option of retrofitting a tubular form fill seal system into the bag filling station, which will allow them to increase future packing outputs up to 1,200 bags/hour.
Product will be fed into a VLFS filling system via a volumetric dosing belt, which receives closed loop feedback from an inline check weigher that is positioned after the sealing station. The filled and sealed bags are elevated up an inclined indexing
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conveyor into a PCD 1200 High Level Palletiser, which also incorporates an empty pallet magazine and out feed conveyors. Chronos BTH engineers will undertake the installation and commissioning of the system that will be used for medium and large bags of product. Border Aggregates customer base includes: local authorities, builder's merchants, D.I.Y outlets, garden centres and landscapers. The products being packed are sourced from premier sources across the United Kingdom and abroad. Terry Billington, managing director of Border Aggregates explains why they placed the order with Chronos BTH. “Following reference visits earlier this year to Holland to see the Chronos BTH manufacturing centre and an existing aggregate packing installation we immediately recognised the quality of the engineering and equipment. This led to us placing an order for our new packing line.”
He concluded: “Not only do we have full confidence in the suitability of the equipment to pack our products, but also in Chronos BTH as a company; not only for the supply of the new equipment but also in the future for their after sales support in the UK.”
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line, minimising wasted space and bringing forward the opening date of the system.
Chris Foss, director of Britaniacrest Recycling commented “I would like to mention how pleased I am with the product, product support and service ACP provided us with at our recycling centre near to Gatwick Airport. Using precast panels enabled us to install and commission our plant approximately 7 to 10 days ahead of schedule as well as providing a strong cost efficient dividing push wall that can be easily replaced.” The new facility means Britaniacrest can recycle over 86% of the incoming waste and is working towards a figure of 95% putting them right at the top of UK recyclers and on a par with the best in Europe.
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