Middleton Engineering promotes bale quality and twin ram baler solutions at RWM 2016
RWM Hall/Stand: 5P33, 13-15 September 2016
Glastonbury, 15 August 2016: Middleton Engineering, a leading UK recycling equipment engineering company, will be advising clients on achieving bale quality and optimising payload weights for container transportation at RWM. The emphasis will be on the company’s latest Scapa range of energy efficient twin ram balers now available in 80, 100, 120 and 150 tonne configurations, designed to bale the widest range of waste streams including RDF, hard plastics and commercial and industrial waste.
Container transportation and haulage costs are a major factor for the industry and with volatile prices for recovered waste materials and often slim margins it’s crucial that maximum payload weights and space are fully utilised. The Middleton twin ram design ensures bale weight and density is consistently maintained without compromising throughout. There is a choice of two output sizes, both mill sized, designed to optimise container loading add further flexibility.
Bales measure either 720 x 1050 x 1400 or 1050 x 1050 x 1400 and all machines are available with a choice of plastic or wire tying system. A dual tying head is also available for operators who need to switch rapidly from one waste stream to another, delivering important productivity gains. With each system the number of wires or plastic straps can be set by the user to match the characteristics of the product being baled.
W&S Recycling Services is one of many waste management operators that now rely on the latest Middleton Engineering twin ram machines. Based at the company’s Hurn depot near Christchurch, the ME2R100 is used to bale multiple waste streams from Household Recycling Centres and commercial customers, producing compact and dense bales to achieve maximum payload weights. With its 100 tonne press force the machine has also enabled the company to spearhead a new venture recycling rigid plastics, commodities which have traditionally gone straight to land fill.
Evolution to the Middleton twin ram baler design includes the latest user friendly touchscreen controls with information display and error indication covering multiple operator parameters plus production and performance data , bale and time counters, automatic power saving motor controls and a fully integrated modem diagnostics system enabling full customer support and remote diagnostics direct form engineers in the factory.
Middleton Engineering Director Mark Smith explains: “We are delighted to be back at RWM, one of the best platforms for the industry. For busy site operators, monitoring baler performance is crucially important. Our improved remote diagnostics system, now available on all our Twin Ram machines, means we can provide an enhanced level of service to customers tailored to their individual requirements and based on real-time data specific to individual components, wear rates and operating hours”.