“Rubble Monkey Crushes Corian Worktops Into Decorative Stone For A Garden Show In Chelsea”

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• 13th July 2008
• Recycling
 

Red Rhino customer, Rubble Monkey in Thame, crushed Corian worktops to be used as decorative stone for a project at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May.

The five day show attracts over 600 exhibitors and over 700,000 enthusiastic visitors annually. This is the ultimate event in the gardening industry which shows the latest garden trends, features the newest and most desirable gardening products and creates an explosion of colours and scents.

Rubble Monkey were selected to work alongside MCD Marketing in Pitstone, Buckinghamshire, to help create a project "Gavin Jones Garden of Corian", designed by Philip Nash who received a Gold Flora Medal for it. This extraordinary display was one of the main gardens at the show, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/chelsea/show_gardens/elevations.shtml to see it!

The Rubble Monkey crew travelled to Mega Marble in Wembley, London, where they were crushing the Corian worktops for 3 days continuously. The worktops are 90% granite with a 10% added polymer to give it its colour and were approximately 1.2 m by 3 m and weighed up to 400 kg each.

The three partners of Rubble Monkey, Steve Bailey, Ian Newton and Garry Brown, have always work well together and in no time at all had the "production-line" going. The forklift truck delivered the worktops where it then got broken with a sledgehammer and loaded by hand into their 4000 series crusher set at 5mm. A screener attachment was used to separate the aggregate from the finer material and the dust suppression was connected to minimize the dust. The aggregate was shoveled into a cement mixer, tumbled to smooth out the sharp edges and bagged up to be delivered to the showground, ready to be used as decorative stone!

Two colour stones were used in the garden design, black which was used mainly in the pond and blue which was used around the garden flowerbeds. "It was really hard work but it was great being part of something so extraordinary!" said the crusher men.

Rubble Monkey's story just demonstrates how versatile a compact crusher can be - the crushing of worktops is just one of the many ways various materials you can be recycled and then used for something as simple as garden decoration.

To hire a crusher in the Thames Valley area, please contact Rubble Monkey on either 01844 217 053 or 07972 668 521.

Red Rhino Crushers Ltd
Unit 7 Brunel Gate
Brunel Road
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP19 8AR
UK

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