Turmec has recently announced a number of exciting new projects for two clients in the UK.
One project has just been completed. ETM Recycling, in the South-West England, has just invested £4m in an innovative recycling centre at its Ashton Vale transfer station on the outskirts of Bristol. Now fully operational, the custom-built ‘super plant’ doubles ETM’s waste capacity to 150,000 tonnes per year. It also significantly improves the efficiency of waste handling and segregation, taking Ashton Vale’s landfill diversion rate to 98%. ETM chose Turmec – which has more than 45 years’ experience in the engineering and recycling industries – for its expertise in the end-to-end design and build of complex systems for separating and processing wastes.
A second project has just commenced. Hills Waste Solutions, based in Wiltshire, UK, has commissioned Turmec to supply and install a new Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) plant, which will have the capacity to process 20 tonnes per hour of mixed dry recyclables (MDR). The new MRF plant will treat kerbside collected commingled recyclable materials collected by Hills from around 220,000 households across Wiltshire under a contract with Wiltshire Council, one of the largest unitary authorities in the country. The new Turmec MRF equipment will include various screens with optical and magnet elements to maximise the recovery of paper, cardboard, plastic bottles (PET and HDPE), plastic pots, tubs and trays, cans (steel and aluminium) and food and drink cartons.
Henry Newbery, recycling manager for Hills said: “Turmec was awarded the contract to provide the MRF after a competitive tender process which saw Hills evaluating MRF designs from a number of providers. Turmec’s plant design and advanced sorting equipment will ensure that we achieve a high-quality separation of recycled materials.”
