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Route to self-sufficiency
Wimbledon. London, basedNJB recycling operates a skip and waste recycling operation,
withmaterial brought from around London by its own skip lorries as well as other waste
that is brought to its site by other companies. In order to process the waste, the company
has now invested in its own crusher in the shape of a Rubblemaster RM60 unit.
The company already has its own on-site screening capability that it has been using to
consistently recycle 75% of the waste that it processes. Jamie Bowie, the owner of NJB,
looked into owning his own crusher rather than hiring in a crusher to recycle waste. “The
advantages of owning your own crushermean that we can react to work flow variations in
demand and supply of hardcore very quickly.We looked at several different crushers that
might suit our requirements and eventually decided the RM60was ideal for our needs. It is
compact and well built, and yet easily produces 50 tonnes per hour of crushedMOT Type 1
hardcore.”
Sennebogen Vario Tool
speeds changeovers
P
hoenixMetals&DemolitionLtd,
based inAnglesey,Wales, recently
tookdeliveryof anewSennebogen
830M equippedwith the Sennebogen
VarioTool fromE.H.Hassell andSons, the
responsible Sennebogenport sales and service
partner. TheVarioTool is a fullyhydraulic,
multi-functional tool changing system that
allows this singlemachine touse both a 5,000
kg (11,000 lb)GenesisGXP400R scrap shear
and a grapple.
Whenworking away from its home site,
the two tools areplacedon aRo-Ro container
and transported to the site, with adust proof
couplingguardonboth toprevent dust and
grime ingress into thehydraulic system. The
830M’s 3m (9.9 ft) transportwidth allows the
machine tobe transportedon a flatbed trailer.
Once there, it canbeunloaded andbe atwork
withinminutes.
The 830M is poweredby a 164kW (220
hp) diesel and is fittedwithSennebogen’s 13
m (43 ft)VTboom. TheMaxcab fitted to
themachine canbehydraulically elevated
to aheight of 5.6m (18.4 ft) toprovide the
operator a clear viewof all loading and sorting
operations.
At itsGwynedd facility, Phoenixprocesses
more than250 tonnes of scrapperweek,
with thematerial coming from industrial
and commercial operations, aswell as from
surroundinghouseholds.
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PP O’Connor, based in Irlam, Salford, used a 700
tonnemobile crane to remove a 30 tonne, 134
year old footbridge at AltrinchamRailway Station,
now known as Altrincham Interchange, between
1.30 and 20,00 on Sunday, October 26. The
structurewas lifted out in two sections and then
processed on site for recycling by an excavator
with shear and grapple attachments. Thirty-eight
personnel were involved in the project, working in
two shifts during a track possession that could not
exceed 27 hours.
NJBRecycling is using a Rubblemaster RM60 to produce
50 tonnes ofMOT Type 1 hardcore per hour
