Services firm Kier Group has taken delivery of five new vehicles at its 150,000 tonne-a-year capacity materials recycling facility in Warwickshire.
The Bedfordshire-based company said the introduction of the newloaders and truckscame as recycling processes at the facility began ahead of schedule.
Kier took ownership of the materials recycling facility (MRF) at Ettington in May 2010 after purchasing the assets of waste management firm Pure Recycling in a deal initially worth 2 million (see letsrecycle.com story).
The new vehicles were supplied by Kier Plant on a three-year contract hire basis, with three JCB TLT35D Teletruks and two JCV 436 Wastemaster loading shovels being selected for use following testing and evaluation.
The Teletruks, which are four-wheel drive forklift trucks, are used to unload, sort and distribute processed material around the MRF plant, while the Wastemasters are specially-designed for shovelling each type of material handled at the facility.
John Jackson, managing director of Kier Street Services, said: Were delighted with the Pure MRF; and while weve been collecting raw recyclables for some years now, its a hugely proud feeling to finally be processing them too.
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Installation of plant sorting equipment at the 60,000 sq ft site was completed in February 2011. The MRF is designed to sort paper, magazines, cardboard, glass, mixed plastic bottles and aluminium and steel cans.
Stratford-on-Avon district and Rugby borough councils are both contracted to send 10,000 tonnes and 8,000 tonnes of material-a-year respectively to the plant. This is in addition, to Sandwell metropolitan borough council and Tewkesbury borough council, who have both signed agreements to send commingled dry recyclables to Pure.
Delivery of the 8 million plant was supposed to be completed under the previous owners in April 2009, however, the construction phase was set back by bad weather hampering building and also a legal wrangle with Warwickshire county council over planning permission (see letsrecycle.com story).
However, following the resolution of these issues, the plant began to take shape in June 2010 (see letsrecycle.com story), and it is now on course to be fully operational later this month.
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