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Recycling
Boyd Brothers benefit with a
Terex Ecotec Phoenix 3300
Scottish haulage and material handling
specialists Boyd Brothers operate from their
Corpach quayside near Fort William. The
company undertakes logistics services on
several ports around Scotland handling a
variety of materials, delivering a service
dedicated to ensuring their customer’s goods are
shipped safely and in good time. One of their
clients for material handling solutions is BSW
Timber who operate a state of the art sawmill at
Corpach.
Founded in 1848, in Earlston, Scotland, BSW Timber is now the
largest sawmilling company in the UK. Currently operating in
eleven manufacturing sites across the UK and Latvia, BSW
Timber are large-scale producers of certified timber products
for various industries and applications, including fencing,
landscaping, decking, cladding, construction, joinery and pallet
production.
The company currently produces over 250 million linear metres
of material per annum manufacturing the highest quality
certified products from C16 construction timber to innovative
products like composite decking and acoustic fencing.
The company’s site at Corpach receives around 450,000m of
material annually, producing over 250,000m of finished
products from the incoming material. But what happens to the
remaining 200,000m BSW grow-to-size, harvest to order, and
replant to replenish using the whole of the log – even
sawdust, shavings, chips and bark, which supply the pulp and
paper, chipboard, horticultural sectors.
Sister company, BSW Energy, also makes use of our timber co-
products, manufacturing clean, renewable wood fuel solutions
to power everything from biomass plants to stoves and
barbeques.
At Corpach, the sawmill residue is collected throughout the
mill on a series of conveyors before it is discharged at the
adjoining Boyd Brothers site.
The sawmill residue comes from the mill in a range of sizes
from dust to 60mm chips and until recently, the material was
handled by a pair of Doppstadt 620 screens hired by Boyd
Brothers. Whilst these two units managed the job, their output
was far from what was required. With the company sending
out much of the screened material on vessels from the
adjacent dock, the Boyd Brothers team decided it was time to
invest in a trommel capable of handling a larger volume of
material allowing stockpiles to be built up of various grades of
chip and dust prior to the arrival of the vessels. Having a
stockpile would then allow the vessels, each with a capacity of
around 6000 tonnes to be loaded more effectively and more
often using the stockpiles already created.
With a requirement to handle up to 120t per hour, the market
for high output, trommels is limited. One of the only
companies with such a large trommel in their portfolio is
Molson Green, part of the Molson Equipment Group. Boyd
Brothers quickly contacted Molson and during their initial
conversations with David Sutherland and Mike Mackenzie, it
was decided that a new Terex Ecotec Phoenix 3300 trommel
would be an ideal solution to the company’s production issues.
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