Dublin-based Thornton Recycling has some of the best waste separation facilities in Ireland and currently achieves around 55% recycling efficiency. But the company was looking for a software package which would enable it to expand and believed that P&L;'s IWS was the most appropriate.
Padraig Thornton, one of Dublin’s leading waste disposal experts, started Thornton Recycling with his wife and an REL truck over twenty years ago. Since then, the company has grown to become one of the largest and most efficient recycling centres in Ireland.
Thornton Recycling now controls 30,000 square foot of purpose-built skip picking lines processing rubble, timber, steel, cardboard, plastics and other recyclable material. The company has a fleet of 46 trucks and 96 staff.
Future needs
Padraig Thornton, of Thornton Recycling, said: “We’d originally found it hard to find a software package specific enough to our industry. Our original software has served us well enough, but we could see that it wouldn't be able to keep up with out future needs.”
Following the 16,000 order for the container and weighbridge modules, two core IWS elements, P&L; installed the system in May.
Eamon Flanagan, operations manager for Thornton Recycling, said: “We could see that the IWS's modular make-up was ideal for our immediate needs then and our future plans now. We had already gone though major changes in the previous few years with everything being channelled through the weighbridge.”
He added: “We needed to build on that with better and more versatile data recording, as well as knowing that we could easily expand the system to support our future plans. Once we’d seen IWS we didn’t need to look any further, it could grow as we grew, and was backed by a team of people who clearly understood our business.”
Northern office
P&L; has also opened a northern office in Manchester, in addition to its existing Oxfordshire-base at Kidlington. Mark Flanagan has joined P&L; from Biffa and is responsible for running the new office.
Mr Flanagan has over 25 years experience in the waste industry and as technical consultant, his responsibilities include the training of customers to use IWS installations and assisting new customers in realising their technical requirements.
Julie Emery-Priest, director of P&L;, said: “Mark brings to P&L; his ability to project-manage major system implementations from initial specification, through installation and commissioning, to live operation; including giving advice on procedural aspects.”
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