C&D Materials Recycling Pays Dividends for Armoury!

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• 26th February 2007
• Recycling
 

It's been over twenty years since West Midlands demolition and recycling specialist Armoury Demolition first saw the environmental and economic benefits of recycling their C&D waste. Since that comparatively early start, the company has fine-tuned and developed their materials reclamation and waste management processes and is now not only producing a wide range of saleable products generated by their numerous demolition contracts around the UK, but is also playing a strong role in the industry by ensuring that maximum volumes of reusable materials are cleanly and efficiently extracted and subsequent tip-to-landfill volumes are vastly reduced, with all the environmental and economic benefits that this creates.

Armoury Demolition's Tony McLean says "We bought our very first Powerscreen machine over twenty years ago and, in our opinion, it's the best equipment of its kind. We've always bought Powerscreen plants for screening and stockpiling our C&D waste and, at the moment, we're running an 1800 Chieftain mobile, flat-bed dry screener and a Trommel 615 at our Bordesley Green waste treatment plant. We also operate a TEREX Pegson 1165 Premiertrak jaw crusher with hydraulic adjustment, which is a vital part of our recycling machinery fleet for rendering oversize rock and concrete down to specific sizes". Such is the increased throughput of materials, that Armoury Demolition also has another Powerscreen dry screener on order from distributors Blue Machinery - a Chieftain 2100 Triple Deck, due for delivery this month. This model has a newly designed and highly aggressive screen box, a larger screening area and longer side conveyors, which will be more than capable of handling the growing volumes being processed by Armoury Demolition.

Armoury's many demolition contracts produce in the region of 250,000 tonnes of waste material every year and all this mixed waste is put through the recycling process - mostly at their Bordesley Green premises or at the actual demolition site (where the mobility of their tracked plants is invaluable). The company says it can produce a wide range of recycled aggregates with the main end-products being 6F2, 20-25mm gravel, 75-40mm clean and Type1. Fines and top soils are also a valuable end-product, with best quality going to land restoration and other grades mostly used as landfill cover. The majority of recycled aggregates produced by Armoury goes straight into the production of non-structural ready-mixed concrete, while other recycled material goes into pipe-bedding, haul roads, substrata etc on construction, civil engineering and building development projects. There is also a considerable amount of timber; paper and board produced from the recycling processes which are sold on for pulping; ferrous and non-ferrous metals are taken by metal merchants and foundries.

Tony McLean commented "We recently carried out a detailed assessment of our success in recycling our waste volumes and this proved that we are safely achieving a reclamation level of close to 90% - and we continually strive to improve this proportion".

Armoury Demolition has been in existence for over 30 years and has been a staunch Powerscreen user since the very early days. They continue to source their screening plants from Blue Machinery, enjoying a fruitful and close working relationship with this Powerscreen distributor and, for after sales product support, Blue's sister company Spares UK.

The Chieftain 1800 is a crawler-mounted double-deck model with a live head on the feeder, a 45mm punch plate on the live head's top deck and which is capable of an output of up to 500 tonnes per hour (depending on mesh sizes and material types). Armoury Demolition has also had a blower units installed on the end of the Chieftain's conveyor which takes out smaller pieces of timber, paper and other lightweight items for the cleanest possible end product. The design and construction of the screening plant provides maximum access for easy maintenance and serviceability, whilst operational efficiency and mobility make the Chieftain 1800 a truly versatile screening unit for large-scale recycling applications. The Chieftain 2100, due to join the Armoury fleet later this month, is of triple-deck configuration, has similar operational features and benefits to the Chieftain 1800 and an ability to produce six end products. On this model, the side conveyors have been extended by 1.6m to enhance the already impressive stockpiling capacities.

Further information:
Karen Wilde, Blue Machinery Plc.
Tel: 0845 230 4460. Fax: 0845 658 2314
e-mail: karen.wilde@bluemachinerycentral.com

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