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Recycling
into the Waste Framework Directive 2008 and Circular Economy Package and Environment Bill to name but a few. The recent draft Plastic Packaging Tax legislation announced by HMRC is ground-breaking and proves that the materials we recover, and process are fit to be used for its original purpose. That is real progress.
Personally, I am extremely proud to be part of this process of evolution at Turmec, which has nearly 50 years of experience in the engineering and recycling industries.
Turmec was originally a general engineering firm, a heritage from which it has evolved over time to specialise in the design and manufacture of market-leading, cost-effective, and high-quality facilities for customers in the recycling industry.
Starting in C&D sector, Turmec quickly grew to become the market leader, installing many installations around the UK, including 3 large scale systems to Powerday. Following this growth, we Turmec diversified into MSW, C&I and Trade waste, successfully installing plants for New Earth solutions, Impetus and Suez. The plants main focus was to optimise material recovery and producing high quality RDF and SRF material
Turmec plan, design, manufacture and install the very best recycling plants to process C&D materials, co-mingled recyclates, MSW, plastics, incinerator bottom ash and tyre recycling. Most recently Turmec have built a 150tph C&D plant in Australia with a specialised dry wash process to clean up fines materials, further pushing the boundaries of what is possible in our industry.
Under the new leadership of Geoff Bailey, who spans an impressive career in recycling and waste services industry will lead us through the next stages of development in a global marketplace increasing Turmec’s position as a world leader in innovative recycling solutions.
It has been an interesting journey so far. We do not know what the future might bring but Turmec is excited to be part of it and adopting best practice.
Welland Waste Management choose reliability
and low running costs
Welland Waste Management Ltd is a Leicestershire based waste management company.
At their Lutterworth facility, they operate a 4MW biofuel CHP plant, fuelled by 36,000tpa of oily food waste as well as a 25,000tpa open air windrow composting operation. They also have an on-site 10MW wood waste gasifier, which is fuelled by 72,000tpa of waste wood.
The energy generated by Welland Waste is exported to the National Grid and is enough to power 17,000 UK households, per year.
A key element of their waste wood operation is their pre-shredder, which takes the waste wood and shreds it down to a consistent, sub 300mm particle size, ready for further processing through their secondary plant.
Welland Waste turned to CRJ Service, who they have dealt with for over 15 years, when it was time to upgrade their pre shredder. They wanted a machine that was more reliable and less costly to run, than their previous. CRJ Sales manager Mike Symons - met with Welland Waste to confirm their requirements, and to inspect the input material.
Welland Waste were aware that the Haas pre-shredder had impressed other wood processors within the market and were satisfied with CRJ becoming the Haas dealer, since buying their previous shredder.
When asked about their decision to choose the HAAS, Roger Clarke - Director of Welland Waste Management Ltd - stated:
“The Haas Tyron was selected as we almost bought one last time we bought a shredder; so we had done our homework on the machine then. We heard good reports about reliability and running costs from wood processors who are processing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of wood. We had also dealt with CRJ since 2005, and have always enjoyed a good working relationship with them – just simple things like
ringing back and turning up when they are supposed to – things that some other companies struggle to do.”
Welland Waste were aware of the TYRON’s capabilities, having already researched the machine for their previous shredder purchase several years ago. It was the recently upgraded features of the HAAS TYRON 2.0 that convinced them to purchase the machine.
The TYRON 2.0 sees the introduction of foldable side panels, which allow for direct ground access to the shredding chamber. Side access mitigates the risk of someone having to enter the shredding chamber for maintenance and hard facing. HAAS has also improved access to the hydraulic and engine compartments of the machine, making it easier and safer to conduct maintenance and servicing.
Following the purchase of the HAAS TYRON 2500 2.0, we went to visit Roger Clarke to see how their new machine was performing.
“The Tyron has performed to our expectations and so have CRJ. It is nice to have a machine that starts in the morning, works all day with minimum down time, day after day.”
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