Case Study: Riverside Waste Machinery
Turnbridge Engineering
Turnbridge engineering is a well established precision engineering company in the heart of industrial Bradford. The company manufactures a variety of high spec components for a number of industry sectors.
Daniel Shaw, Turnbridge Engineering’s Technical manager identified the high cost of emptying two 14 cubic meter skips twice a week in dealing with the company's waste
The company had two main types of waste; metal turnings and polythene sheet rapped in received customer’s components. The turnings were readily recyclable, but the polythene ‘bags’ were proving a problem. Daniel decided that a small baler would achieve volume reduction in the factory and reduce the number of skip lifts, so they bought an RWM 75.
The baler is sited indoors, at one end of the storage area, where the skips are unpacked. The sheeting can be put straight into the baler and Turnbridge like the fact that the baler can be used to store the polythene until they are ready to make a bale. There is always a thin oil deposit on the sheeting, and this can make areas of the factory floor slippery. The bales are now being stored for recycling instead of going to landfill.
Daniel says; “The main benefits of having the baler is that we’ve been able to remove a lot of untidy waste from around the factory and have increased safety by having a central point to store our waste polythene”.
Daniel further added “We’ve been very pleased with the performance of the RWM 75 and the service provided by Riverside”
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Strawson Ltd
Strawson Ltd is a long established family owned business based in rural Nottinghamshire. The company cleans and bags large quantities of fresh vegetables, particularly carrots for a number of high street supermarkets.
The process is highly mechanised with conveyors and graders etc to sort the produce. The supermarkets demand a very high standard of presentation, so there is always a big volume of waste polythene bags to be handled. Previously, this waste was collected in a variety of bags placed around the factory, before being manhandled outside to a number of skips around the site.
Gemma Storey, a senior manager with the company, realised that this collection process was inefficient and costly and that a baler might be the answer. As a result, an RWM 150 was sited inside the main processing area, close to the conveyors. Now the waste polythene can be easily moved across into the baler, with a bale being made every day.
Gemma says; “we no longer pollute the atmosphere by burning our waste and that we are now able too get a return on the polythene, which pays for the running costs of the baler”.When asked to sum up her thoughts on the company's new baler, Gemma stated “The RWM is very easy to use, has lived up to our expectations and does a very good job”.
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Ltd Castle Colours Ltd
Castle Colours have two sites on the outskirts of Stoke on Trent, deep in the Potteries. The company blend colour pigments for a variety of manufacturing processes, and consequently have a variety of waste wrappings; paper bags, bulk bags and cardboard.
The mixing process produces a large quantity of 3 ply and 5 ply 25 kg heavy paper sacks. These sacks were tied together by members of the workforce, before being manually taken across the yard and put into a 40ft container. On the company's other site, materials were being delivered in woven FIBCs that were again stored in a large pile for collection.
Richard Evans, director, decided that this inefficiency and general waste couldn’t continue and that they were missing an opportunity to recycle as well as cut down on labour costs, and the cost of removing half-empty skips. Richard initially bought an RWM 150 to deal with the paper bags, but seen the savings by baling the FIBCs and also invested in the RWM 400.
The main benefits have been savings in labour cost as workers previously spent more time handling the waste, a significant reduction of volumes going to landfill, and the opportunity to recycle and help the environment.
Alex Evans, factory foreman says; “One of the big things for us, was the reduction in volumes of waste and the time which we wasted in handling paper bags and sacks. The balers have been a great addition to our manufacturing process by reducing the time we spend tidying up and should pay for themselves over the next twelve to eighteen months”
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