Warwick Ward opens new premises
Recycling equipment dealer Warwick Ward (machinery) Ltd has expanded its operations with the opening of a new ‘Centre of Excellence’ in Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Situated less than five miles away from their head office, the new site was officially opened by the Mayor of Barnsley, councillor Sarah Tattersall, and is required to “keep up with such positive overall business growth”.
The new premises will provide a ‘Centre of Excellence’, which will house the company’s training academy and develop future employees.
The academy will provide opportunities for both apprentices and qualified plant fitters.
Matt Godhard, operations director, said: “The opening of our new site, as our Centre of Excellence, takes us on the next step of our evolution.
“As part of this facility, we have our Training Academy, a dedicated area to help ensure that our team receive the best in industry training and development. It is a little bit of a cliché to say, ‘our people are our greatest asset’. However, the business has gone from strength to strength over the last 50 years, which would not have been possible without the right team and culture”.
J&G installs Ulster U150 Twin Shaft Shredder
Waste management company J&G Environmental has purchased a new shredder in a bid to “further strengthen its recycling offering”.
J&G said the Ulster U150 Twin Shaft Shredder will double the processing power of its existing machine, which will “significantly” increase the company’s recycling capabilities.
The company said it was installed at its specialist facility in Dorset, with the shredder designed to process a range of materials such as barrels, plastic drums, plastic buckets and plastic crates.
J&G Environmental explained that the machine pre‐shreds material before it moves into a wash plant, leaving clean granule that can be extruded into product, with re‐use options including pipework, railway sleepers, plastic sheeting and car parts.
Tomra Recycling’s eBook makes the case for robotic sorting
Tomra Recycling has published an eBook explaining the similarities and differences between optical sorters with valve block ejectors and optical sorters with robotic arm ejectors.
The eBook, titled ‘Recycling Robots, Take Two’, details “how, when implemented as part of a holistic system design, the two can work in combination to improve sorting performance”.
It then highlights the four critical components shared by all optical sorters, the different sorting technologies available to recyclers and the role of software in sorting. It added that processing software is critical to the sorting process and should be developed specifically for the type of sorting technology employed to maximise materials recovery.
The eBook concludes with the message that, while not new to the recycling industry, the use of artificial intelligence and deep datasets is expanding. This is helping to increase material processing speed, achieve higher recovery rates of the most complex material fractions and maximise circularity by bringing more high-quality recyclates into the loop, the company added.
The book can be downloaded here.
Scottish waste specialist upgrades its fleet
Glasgow-based J&M Murdoch has announced it will be using the JCB Stage V 560-80 Wastemaster telescopic handler for loading and distributing material at the company’s four recycling centres across Scotland.
The company explained that the machine, supplied by dealer Scot JCB, has been “purpose built to meet the unique requirements of the waste and recycling industry”.
J&M Murdoch’s managing director Drew Murdoch said: “We’ve had a load of JCB Wastemasters over the years – they’re very good machines, they’re reliable and they tick all the boxes. We like that they’re designed specifically for the waste industry. You can add the full range of attachments: forks, buckets, clam shells, bale clampers – you name it – so the versatility is unbeatable.”
J&M Murdoch added that the JCB 560-80 Wastemaster’s Stage V JCB DieselMax engine now has a larger power capacity of 130hp (97kw). Moreover, the CommandPlus cab is 12% larger with a 50% reduction in cab noise giving a best-in-class 69dBA. Upward visibility has also been increased by 14% with seamless one-piece curved glazing.
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