EDGE Innovate push the boundaries of design and manufacture in Northern Ireland.
The HUB visits N.Ireland...
HUB-4 went along to meet the EDGE team and take a tour of their large manufacturing facility. Based on Farlough Road in Dungannon, EDGE have had exciting growth over the past few years since their establishment in 2008 and now employ over 120 staff, producing of upwards of 200 machines each year to service the material handling and recycling industry.
We talked with Adrian Donnelly of EDGE Innovate “We’ve recently invested £3.4m in our fabrication facilities with large investment being directed into our spray-shop facilities. We have increased our aftersales team substantially with additional expansion of our direct sales team with two new sales people located in London, two in Scotland and two in California. We have also, launched our new Evolution programme, which has allowed industry professionals to start their own distributorships for EDGE. The programme provides full technical training, extensive market research and on-going support to enable incubation of a successful business for those taking part. This of course ultimately allows us to grow the business successfully and to tap into new markets.”
“When you look at our portfolio, there is no other company that has the range of products that we have, from material handling and tracked conveyors right through to slow speed shredders for the recycling industry, and we will continue an aggressive product development into 2017 and beyond.”
“We have our own in-house design team, allowing us to design a solution around the clients’ requirements and provide them with a final product absolutely bespoke to their application. Everything is built from scratch on-site here, from design, right through to production and testing, and we have our own technical engineers who then go out to install and commission the machines, and to assist our 60 strong dealer network globally. We export 94% of all products that we manufacture here, with many of those products being designed to fit into standard 40ft containers to keep shipping costs as low as possible for our clients.”
We took a tour around the 150,000ft² manufacturing facility “Here we have our own complete state of the art fabrication facilities in which we are constituently reinvesting in. We have just recently invested in brand new laser cutting and forming machines to help us improve quality and increase throughput. We have over 25 years of high quality fabrication expertise, and this is reflected in the quality of our end product, it really is in the detail. We also pride ourselves in the quality of our paintwork and with our new paint shop and ovens, we are able to provide a high standard of finish. We have a full sand-blasting process, and high quality two-pack paint finish across all our components. We operate a full parts facility on-site with spares and assembly items for all our product range, allowing for a smooth manufacturing and assembly process.”
Adrian added “We have quite a few exhibitions planned in 2017, staring with the USCC Compost’17 Show, Hard Hat, ConExpo in Las Vegas, SteinExpo in Germany, N-Expo in Japan, and PhilConstruct in the Philippines.
We are exhibiting at ConExpo in the main silver lot, and will be taking three machines over to showcase including our recently launched FreeFlow 186 flip flow screen and MC1400 track material classifier. The Freeflow screen which has a scalping top deck and a flip-flow bottom deck has the ability to run 10% faster than competing flip flow screens and has a mat acceleration of up to 50g. This allows the screen to cope with sticky material that traditionally blind and peg in traditional horizontal screens.
We have enhanced the screening area by vastly reducing the dead areas found on the feed shelf and top deck cross members. Its intelligent modular top deck system allows operators to install numerous media types such as 3D panels, punched plate etc. All of which can be quickly and easily installed side by side. On the bottom deck, the powerful snapping of the bottom deck media generates high material acceleration that disperses particles sufficiently to allow smaller fractions the opportunity to reach the screen surface and pass through freely. It is this combination of high acceleration that helps the FreeFlow from blinding or clogging.
We have designed a brand new fastening system for the bottom deck media, which cuts down drastically on screen replacement time. The MC1400 also being showcased at ConExpo 2017, is a track mounted material classifier that provides operators with the ability to extract impurities from highly contaminated material in just one pass. It utilizes controlled air as a separation medium and is the ideal solution for the cleaning of compost and biomass fractions with its ability to separate heavy and mid-weight fractions from lights. Next year will also see us launching another four new products to our already extensive product portfolio; so we have an exciting year coming up.”
For more information on EDGE Innovate visit www.edgeinnovate.com or for their ConExpo micro-site visit www.edge-event.com
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