INDUSTRY NEWS
‘Apprenticeships are best route to senior roles’, says McHale Plant Sales
KOMATSU distributor, McHale Plant Sales continues to recommend apprenticeships as the best route to a senior role within the heavy construction plant sector.
Having first recommended the apprenticeship path in a company- published careers booklet issued in 2017 (and now available on their website), the company continues to see engagement with young trainees as a vital aspect of future management team building.
Mindful that experience and qualifications gained in the construction plant sector here are accepted internationally, company General Manager, Denis McGrath – who himself joined McHale Plant Sales as an apprentice – said: “Generally, recruits begin working in the technical area, acquiring training, knowledge and experience that will lead them on to senior engineering posts and, occasionally, to positions in sales,
marketing and general management.”
Under its own managed programme, implemented in conjunction with those global partners whose products the Birdhill and Rathcoole-based company represents, trainees are immersed in the engineering, computerisation, environmental, online and high-tech features that are becoming more widely used in modern machines.
In addition to KOMATSU excavators, dozers and loaders, McHale also represents Metso stone crushers, KOMATSU forest harvesting equipment, Terex Ecotec
shredders and waste handling machinery and Merlo telehandlers for farm and building applications.
Are Brits missing out on a valuable income stream?
A RECENT survey showed that the British public could be missing out on a valuable income stream that is metal recycling. Only 32% of respondents said they would sell scrap metal to a metal recycling firm.
A survey undertaken by one of the world’s leading metal recycling companies, EMR, found 65% of the British public would take their metal waste to a local council tip or recycling centre instead of selling to a metal recycling company.
Worryingly, 1% said they would fly-tip it and 8% would pay someone external to take it away.
EMR’s UK Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Brady said: “As one of the UK’s leading metal and plastics recyclers, we strongly believe one of our key roles is to promote the need for all metal to be recycled.
“Although it is encouraging to see such a high percentage of the general public
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making the journey to a local council recycling centre to dispose of their waste metal, it is concerning so few would consider selling it to a metal recycling company and generate some income from it.
“We want the general public to be aware most metal recycling companies would welcome their business and many, such as ourselves, have tried to make the yards themselves more welcoming.
“This is a massive missed opportunity for the British public and it is easier than ever to sell your waste metal to EMR and other metal recyclers. Not only do you get peace of mind that your metal is recycled efficiently, you receive money for it.”
EMR recycles around 10m tonnes of metal each year, which saves around 10m tonnes of CO2 compared to using virgin ores.
Andrew concluded: “With over 70 sites around the country, we can serve most areas of the UK, and our service offering ranges from ferrous metals (metal containing iron), non-ferrous metals (everything else) to end-of- life vehicles.
“It is time for the UK to put our planet first and realise that all metal can be recycled.”
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