Working with A&J; Bull’s project director, Tony Church, O.Kay teamed up with Graeme Coombs, managing director of AW Lawson and Steve Talbot, managing director of Capital Security Shredding. Both Lawsons and Capital are involved in paper recycling and although located at the same Barking site, it was important to ensure the two new systems met their customers’ exact needs because the two plants are physically divided and differ greatly.
The mechanical handling plant developed by O.Kay for the AW Lawson operation sorts, conditions and bales commercial waste papers and card. Linked together by O.Kay conveyors, the systems uses a BOA Rhino 1000-160 hogger to condition the material and a BOA 2200 to bale it, with O.Kay again providing the sorting equipment. It handles a throughput of 40 tonnes an hour.
The system has increased AW Lawson’s recycling capacity dramatically and has been eagerly awaited by its managing director, Graeme Coombs.
“The startup of our operation at Barking is obviously something that’s new and hugely exciting for us as well as a big commitment on our part. We were extremely keen to work with O.Kay again on this project as they’ve always served us well in the past and, accordingly, this project reached a very satisfactory outcome for everyone involved.”
For Capital Security Shredding the new site offers just as much opportunity. Their O.Kay Security Shredding Plant will handle the destruction of as much as 10 tonnes an hour of confidential waste to also allow the shredded materials to be recycled. The inclusion of the 200 horsepower Allegheny confidential shredder (the largest in the UK) in the system also doubly insures that the throughput will be met.
For Steve Talbot, Capital Security’s managing director, the facility to demonstrate the secure destruction of their customers’ waste is as important as the plant’s throughput capability. “We sat down with O.Kay and together we designed a sturdy plant which also allows our customers to view the destruction process of their documents from start to finish from the viewing room and with CCTV.
“This highly secure environment we’ve created will put our customers at ease because, if they want to, they can see the vans tip their waste directly onto the shredder feed conveyor, bypassing the sorting stations. As we handle waste from all parts of the public sector and from the world of finance and law, we saw our customers’ need for security as paramount.”
Having also been involved in a number of other secure destruction plants – such as the system in the MI6 building in London – O.Kay has no doubts that the system will work. Similarly, its recent successes in the waste industry have ensured that Mr Church is certain the combined site “will be a triumph”.
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