TGM Environmental adds production line
TGM Environmental has made a ‘significant investment’ at its headquarters in Charlton, South East London.
The paper merchant and recycling company has installed a new production line including a fully refurbished Macpresse MAC 111/1 baling press, second MAC1500 hogger and two brand new MAC 1800P conveyors. The investment increases the depot’s capacity for receiving paper, cardboard, plastics and RDF by around 75,000 tonnes per annum.
RCP SA, the UK based arm of Swiss company RCP Systems, provided the full installation including design and delivery from Italy.
TGM receives recyclables from a number of businesses, local authorities and waste management companies in London and the South East.
Graeme Coombs, TGM Environmental Group’s managing director, said: “This is a significant investment in growing our capacity in London and the South East that, for the first time, will allow the Group to truly concentrate on growth in several new sectors.
“Our specialist expertise in the paper and board sector together with a growing understanding of the emerging plastics and RDF sectors gives the Group real optimism for the future after what has been a very difficult trading period.”
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Eriez opens dedicated test centre in Wales
Eriez Magnetics Europe Ltd has opened a dedicated recycling separation test centre at its European headquarters near Caerphilly in South Wales.
The company, which specialises in magnetic separation equipment for the recycling industry, developed the facility to allow customers to see how Eriez magnetic separators can help recover materials and improve profits.
The test centre allows customers to visit with bulk samples of material and see how accurately and efficiently the range of equipment on offer separates it, helping to determine which combination of machinery is the best fit for their waste processing needs.
There has been a significant injection of investment to create the test facility which is equipped with Eriez’s full range of recycling products, including eddy current separators, vibratory feeders and metal detection equipment.
Gareth Meese, sales director at Eriez Europe, said: “The new centre demonstrates our ongoing commitment to providing customers in the recycling industry with the best solutions possible for processing their waste. In-depth testing of materials allows us to select the most effective equipment dependent upon specific customer requirements.”
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Co-operative installs 15th Middleton baler
The Co-operative has installed a refurbished baler from Middleton Engineering at its Cardinal food distribution depot at Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, in order to process backhauled card and plastic packaging waste from stores across the region.
The 88,000 sq ft temperature-controlled depot, which serves 360 stores, distributes some 6,000 grocery cages per day. Packaging waste from each store, which is returned in cages to the depot using empty vehicle capacity, is now compacted and baled for onward transportation to the Group’s larger distribution hub in Andover and from there to recycling agents. Currently the depot is generating 13 to 15 bales of recyclable material per day, each weighing approximately 600kg, in the region of 3,200 tonnes per year.
The Middleton Engineering ME80 semi-automatic horizontal baler has manual wire tying and an on-floor conveyor to feed material into the machine. With an 80 tonne press force, the machine produces compact mill size bales and was selected following recommendations from other Co-operative depots that currently use Middleton Engineering balers including Birtley, Newhouse, Andover, Avonmouth and Castlewood.
Mark Smith, engineering director at Middleton Engineering, commented: “The Co-operative has been a customer for over 17 years and we are delighted that they have again chosen us for this new installation. This brings the number of Middleton Engineering balers across the Group to 15.”
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LondonWaste chooses TraffiGlove gloves
Waste management company LondonWaste has selected TraffiGlove’s TG595 gloves for employees handling hazardous waste on site.
The company, which provides waste management services to seven North London boroughs and is owned by the North London Waste Authority, chose the gloves as part of its efforts to ensure all employees have suitable PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).
TraffiGlove’s TG595 Glaze is a flexible glove which offers high abrasion resistance and a non-marking Cohesion XP coating to the palm, according to the manufacturer.
Meeting the EN388 Standard, which tests gloves on a scale of 1 to 5 for blade cut resistance and 1 to 4 for abrasion resistance, tear resistance and puncture resistance, the TG595 Glaze offers a cut level 5 rating, which TraffiGlove says makes it ideal for use when handling sharp or jagged materials where there is a much higher cut risk.
Paul Hannon, head of purchasing at LondonWaste, said: “Following a minor incident at one of our sites, we needed to address our PPE situation. We trialled approximately 15 cut level 5 gloves before deciding upon TraffiGlove’s TG595 Glaze, which best met our needs due to its superior grip in both wet and dry conditions.
“The TG595 Glaze has now been made a store item, meaning it is available for use by any department, should gloves be required for the job in hand. Having used the gloves for a while now, we’re absolutely delighted with them – we’re confident that we’ve made the right choice.”
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Poundfield launches new walling system
Poundfield Products of Ipswich, the manufacturer of concrete retaining walls for the waste management sector and other industries, has launched a freestanding version of its popular Taperbloc product, the Taperbloc XL.
The original Taperbloc was developed to meet a demand for a lower specification and hence lower cost alternative to Poundfield‘s Alfabloc system. The standard hollow Taperbloc is typically used in applications requiring a permanent walling system for lightweight materials such as grain, silage and waste. Each section incorporates a ground fixing method which locks the sections together to create a strong and narrow continuous wall.
The company’s new Taperbloc XL offers a similar, narrow retaining wall in a choice of either 2.4 or 3 m heights, but one that can be easily moved when required. This has been achieved by designing it to be freestanding thanks to the base of each section being solid concrete instead of hollow.
The freestanding walling system is quick and easy to install and reconfigure, according to Poundfield, and can be loaded on both sides for maximum storage capacity, with steel corner sections available to provide a continuous and gap-free wall.
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