Collins Demolition expansion means stocking up their attachment arsenal.

Award winning demolition attachments from ROTAR are proving to be a welcome asset to the growing success of Midlands based Collins Demolition. 

Collins Earthworks Group has been managing earthmoving projects for over 10 years. Based in the Midlands at Kirkby in Ashfield, they provide a fast, flexible, reliable and professional service all around the UK.  The Group offer Bulk Earthworks, Recycling, Ground Stabilisation, Demolition, Plant Hire, Civil Engineering and Haulage amongst other services.  With over 250 employees and 130 excavators they are established experts in their field.  The Group now encompasses Collins Demolition Ltd, established in March last year following the appointment of Scott Craddock as Director.  A highly experienced demolition expert, Scott joined the company to help expand the existing demolition operations.

Collins Demolition has excavators ranging from 6 to 75 tons.  To work with these they already have a wide range of Rotar grabs, shears and pulverisers, all purchased within the last 5 years from Worsley Plant, the UK’s leading attachment specialist.

Recently, at the time of visiting Collins Demolition on site at Magna Park near Leicester, Scott had invested in two new Rotar attachments – a Rotar RSS30 Scrap Shear and a Rotar RG37 Grab. 

Scott has been in the demolition industry all his life and used an array of different equipment.  Although he’d heard of Rotar, he’d never used their products before. When he joined Collins Earthworks Group to set up the Demolition arm of the company, he had his first insight into the Rotar range and was highly impressed with their versatility, performance and reliability.  It wasn’t hard for him to realise why the company was already using Rotar and was so committed to their products. 

Rotar, whose sole UK supplier is Worsley Plant, has an extensive product line with equipment for excavators and wheel loaders suited to the demolition, construction and recycling markets.  As a manufacturer Rotar are continually developing their state of the art equipment and produce products that guarantee operational continuity, minimal operational costs and optimal availability.  Rotar attachments are built to last – stronger and tougher than many other products on the market.  Rotar, with their striking red livery, have an excellent reputation for power, durability and reliability across Europe.

A recent project involving the demolition of the Sun Centre in Rhyl meant they needed a Shear quickly, so Andrew Purse of Worsley Plant was delighted to sort this out for them.  Within two weeks, Scott had a brand new shear ready to use on site.  Using it for the first time he was very impressed with the speed and agility of the Shear, coupled with its ability to get into tight places and also its robustness.

The Rhyl job also involved using Rotar Pulverisers and Grabs along with the Shear.  The Pulveriser processed 10,000 cubic metres of concrete and the Shear cut 850 tonnes of scrap.  It was a two-month job and they had no issues with the attachments, despite their heavy workload.  As a result of this Scott too was immediately converted to Rotar.

Collins Demolition is now increasing their Rotar fleet due to an increased demand for demolition work.  As a result of this, Scott has developed a great working relationship with Andrew Purse, Business Development Manager for Worsley Plant in the Midlands, whom the company already had a long established history of working with.   Not only do Worsley Plant provide Collins Demolition with an excellent level of service, but their quick turnaround times and parts and service record is impeccable.  Scott is delighted to be working with them.

Their current job is at a former Primark site at Magna Park in Leicestershire.  Collins Demolition are working for the Contractors, PD Industrial, who provide the installation of industrial racking and shelving systems, and dilapidation work and refitting.  The job involves carrying out a delapse of an enormous former Primark warehouse.  This includes dismantling a mezzanine floor of 15,708 square metres – not a small task!!  Inside they are putting it back to an empty shell so that it can be re-let by the landlord.  Half of the factory is racking made of steel and metal and they are taking all that down.  On this specific job Collins are sending all the metal and steel off for recyclingRecycling is key for them on more traditional demolition jobs and they often crush materials on site for recycling.  From beginning to end the project is expected to take 6 weeks. 

On the job they are enjoying using their two more new Rotar attachments – a Rotar RSS30 Scrap Shear and a Rotar RG37 Grab.  Working together these two new additions to their fleet are making light work of ripping down the mezzanine floor and are testament to the company’s commitment to working with Rotar in the long term.  So much so that they are now looking at future purchases, firstly a Shear for their Volvo 300 machine early in the New Year and a smaller multi purpose attachment.  They are also looking at a first high reach machine in the first quarter of 2017, again a Volvo.

Scott says:  “I’ve been converted to Rotar.  Their demolition attachments are the best on the UK market and we wouldn’t look anywhere else.  They are robust, powerful and extremely hard working.  We rarely have any problems with them.  I’d recommend them to anyone.  I wouldn’t change them for the world – except the fact that we paint all our attachments blue to match our logo!”  As Rotar’s strapline says ‘get the red crush’, in this case Collins Demolition are ‘getting the blue crush’!

Andrew Purse adds: “Collins are a key Rotar customer of Worsley Plant who recognise why we recommend Rotar attachments to the UK market.  Rotar products have unrivalled speed, power and durability.  What more could you want!”

Along with all the Rotar attachments they have from Worsley Plant, Collins Demolition are also considering trialling an MB Crushing Bucket during 2017 to help them more easily recycle materials on site. 

For more information about Rotar attachments or other products from Worsley Plant including Crushing and Screening Buckets and fully hydraulic Quickcouplers, please visit www.worsleyplant.co.uk or call 01606 83 55 44.

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