Booth Ventures: a leading waste management company

As a reputable company, with an emphasis on best practice, and every service being professionally delivered, as well as being fully compliant with government and regulatory agency standards, Bolton based Booth Venture’s is fast developing a reputation as one of the North West’s premier waste management companies. This fact was recognised in 2012 when the company won an award at the British Ceramic Confederation’s annual awards, and now through its four operating divisions, and a reliance on Sandvik mobile screening and crushing equipment, the company looks to the future delivering a total solutions package for their growing customer base.

Matthew Booth, the Managing Director of Booth Ventures, makes no secret to the success of his company: “We place an emphasis on efficiency, and we take pride in providing a professional, cost-effective service from start to finish.” This service ensures that customers enjoy expert guidance on how to dispose of many different types of waste, being advised on the relevant procedures, which also includes the provision of chemical testing. As Matthew continues – “Staff on site have been trained to recognise the importance of a quick response to customer enquiries; for example, our review of chemical data prior to acceptance is usually completed within 24 hours – and often the same day – as the initial enquiry.”

This endemic professionalism and competence has seen Booth Ventures develop a hard earned reputation as a highly reputable company, with a growing reputation recognised by the regulatory authorities. Furthermore, Booth Ventures business now operates as four separate divisions: Waste Disposal, Site Regeneration, Aggregate Sales, and Consultancy. Each plays an important part to the business, but when combined offers a synergy of operation that provides enhanced benefit to customers, locality and environment.

Site Regeneration
The full site regeneration service is derived from the capabilities, and resources, Booth Ventures possesses, thereby allowing the company to undertake a wide range of remediation projects. These range from the clean-up of contaminated land, landfill restoration, golf course reprofiling, land-raising and reprofiling for construction. Typically these are carried out under Environmental Permits. The company also undertakes work to assist their customers in a wide variety of asset management roles, which can range from machinery decommissioning and demolition projects, to site clearances and infrastructure maintenance. Additionally, and depending upon site-specific circumstances, Booth Ventures also acquires contaminated land or sites with previous, or existing, industrial uses prior to remediation.

Highlighting the success the company enjoys in the latter area of the business is the fact that the company was nominated for the Contractor’s Award by one of its major customers, Wienerberger, the world’s largest brick manufacturer, at the British Ceramic Confederation’s Pledge 2012 conference held in Stoke-on-Trent. Matthew Booth said of the award: “This is the first time we have won a British Ceramic Confederation award, and I think it’s testament to the work we do to ensure our operations are conducted with health and safety as a paramount consideration.”

Waste disposal
Directly associated with its site remediation business Booth Ventures operates five sites, including a successful waste treatment, recovery and disposal business. All operations are run from Harwood Quarry in Bolton, which is also permitted to accept both inert and non-hazardous wastes for disposal. The site covers more than 50 acres and is conveniently located just 3 miles out of Bolton, within easy reach of the M60, M61 and M66 motorways. The facility is engineered and operated to the highest standards, being utilised by a wide range of companies from house builders to remediation businesses, and haulage ‘muck shift’ operators. Additionally Harwood Quarry extracts blue shale, but also stocks a variety of virgin and recycled products ranging from pipe beddings, 6F2, bulk fill and rockery / walling stone. Fine screened ash is also available from the site for use in agricultural applications and in block making.

Aggregate Sales
An increasingly important side of the business for Booth Ventures is the supply of a range of both virgin and recycled aggregates to businesses and the public. These range from top shale stone ranging from 0-50mm, as well as 6F1 stone, 6F2 stone and brick shale; whilst recycled aggregates cover a broad spectrum ranging from 0-10mm, 0-40mm recycled and 6F2 recycled. In addition various other aggregates are available including a 0-4mm clean brick product, bulk fill material, rough walling stone, fine screened ash, and top soil amongst others. All of these products are usually available to backload either from Harwood or Mouselow Quarry (which is located in Glossop) or by arrangement can be delivered throughout the northwest, with many products having proved particularly suitable for engineering and site remediation purposes.

However, in order to process, size and supply the materials a crushing and screening solution was required; the solution had not only to be mobile on site, but also easily transportable from site to site. After an intensive search and evaluation, Booth Ventures settled on a S5 screener (now a QA340) and QJ341 jaw crusher supplied by Sandvik Construction. “Equipment flexibility is essential for our business, so the screens and crusher’s ability to function equally effectively at a recycling centre, or a quarry, is vitally important to us.” States Matthew Booth who continues: “What stood out about the QJ341 is not only is the crusher highly productive, but it is so flexible that one minute we can use it to crush virgin rock, and the next demolition rubble which is full of rebar, bricks as well as reusable concrete.” The QJ341 is used in conjunction with the S5, a three way split screener which uses Sandvik’s patented double screen box technology to deliver highly accurately sized materials at truly exceptional rates of throughput. Furthermore, and continuing the relationship with Sandvik Construction, Booth Ventures have recently acquired two QE341 scalpers / screens.

The new Sandvik Construction QE341 recently purchased by Booth Ventures combines over 10 years of experience and customer feedback in the mobile scalper market, with well over 100 years’ experience in moving materials in the mining industry. Thus the QE341 represents a major development of the market leading QE340, offering users a more refined unit, that is more robust and increased throughput. Furthermore the QE341 has been developed with easier setup, operation and maintenance in mind, as well as featuring a robust crusher-style chassis that has been designed to be compatible for 2-way or 3-way split configurations, along with reversible side conveyors, thereby demonstrating the ultimate flexibility of the unit.

One of the major upgrades to the QE341 is the new electrical control system which incorporates a number of features to improve both the operational effectiveness, and safety of the machine. The simple easy to use system has colour-coded numerical push buttons, and a visual display unit, allowing the operator to fully monitor the process. Prestart warnings on all plant functions, and an auto start / stop facility, are included together with a three mode selector function; set-up, operation and tracking facility, all ensuring that safety, as well as ease of operation, are paramount at all times. These new features, which proved to be particularly attractive to Booth Ventures, are aimed at ensuring the QE341 is now as user and environmentally focused as it is productive, efficient as well as versatile.

Consultancy
The final part of the Booth Ventures service portfolio is the provision of a waste management consultancy service. This highly valued aspect of the business is based on the in-depth knowledge and experience that has been accrued over many years working in the industry. Thus, the company now works in partnership with clients on a wide range of waste management procedures and issues which include: testing and characterisation site investigation; waste management and commercial processes. These broad headings cover such essential activities as chemical testing for disposal of waste by landfill, compliance testing, geotechnical testing of aggregates, risk / environmental assessments, site investigation, feasibility studies, liability assessments and so on. In fact, anything any company would require, or need, assistance with when dealing with waste or contaminated land.

Total solutions package
Booth Ventures is one of the new breed of waste management company that does not limit itself to specific elements of the industry. Through being able to draw on its experiences, facilities, expertise, and now industry leading equipment, the company is able to provide customers with a total solutions package catering for virtually any requirement. The Sandvik crushing and screening plant are playing their part dealing with whatever is thrown at them, and vitally, turning what has traditionally been seen as throw-away materials into valuable products for reuse and resale, thus fitting the operating ethos of Booth Ventures perfectly.