Contract Crushers Ltd. boom into mobile recycling

“The UK is still a long way behind the rest of Europe for recycling, but we are getting there”, says Peter Hunt, RUBBLE MASTER UK Ltd. sales manager, considering the increasing numbers of RUBBLE MASTER for mobile recycling sold within the UK. And he fully agrees with Pete Thomas from Contract Crushers Ltd. (CCL), who has learned about the recycling market, having spent many years in Germany.

“I could see how slow the UK was reacting to recycling and thought it time to develop the industry myself”, says the entrepreneur, who is running various businesses. Pete Thomas is a self-made man. His attitude to business simply is: “Everything can be done. For getting things done, somebody needs to be paid.” This effective formula for success perfectly applies to mobile recycling. CCL was formed to operate in the green world of recycling. As a sole trader CCL has been in the recycling industry for a couple of years, mainly dealing with demolition and other inert waste. Due to the environmental development in the UK, Pete Thomas decided to go Ltd. in March 2007. By that time he had finished a comprehensive market research, finding that he was either going to go for it “in full” or not at all.

“The customers were so demanding” Pete Thomas explains, “that we had to start with a bang. CCL had to procure multiple machines straight away!” So Pete Thomas started negotiations with Haulmark Equipment Ltd., RUBBLE MASTER’S partner in Cheshire and agreed on a prosperous partnership starting with the first RUBBLE MASTER Compact Recycler RM70 in April 2007. The second RM70 was delivered in May shortly after a RUBBLE MASTER screen CS2500. A double-deck screen CS3600 is about to arrive in Morley within the next few days. And the next RM70 will be displayed at HILLHEAD. Plus, the first RM100 in the UK is due to arrive, again as part of the RUBBLE MASTER fleet of Contract Crushers Ltd.!

Great savings in landfill fees, transport and taxes
– plus resaleable, certified end products

Known throughout the UK, CCL today offers a complete solution to inert waste. With their expertise and the highly innovative recycling technology of RUBBLE MASTER Compact Recyclers it is possible to intercept crushable waste before it gets to landfill sites. This saves the producer in landfill fees, transport and tax, and can actually provide a product for resale. By reducing the use of landfill sites to hide the inert waste, “CCL's crushing operation is helping Britain, towards its recycling goals and protecting the world, which we borrow today from our children and their children”, as Pete Thomas puts it.

CCL operates a modern fleet of equipment and can produce a useable and certified product at a moment's notice. The modern compact RUBBLE MASTER equipment fits into small sites as well as big ones and the noise and pollution emission is such it could even be placed in the heart of a residential area. Each machine comes with its own operator and if needed CCL supplies a loading machine with operator too. CCL operates nationally, is fully insured and carries a crushing licence, so their customers don't have to, which is quite advantageous.

From first-grade aggregates to MOT type 1 to sand
– Make waste a win-win situation

“We are finding that many companies are hesitant to procure their own crushers”, Pete Thomas notes, “as the flow of work is not constant enough. So we offer the crushing service in many ways.” Normally a demolition contractor will be paid by the client to cart away and dispose of any inert waste. Now, they can charge the client and not have to do anything because CCL will go in and crush the product down to a re-useable size and sell it on. Everyone’s a winner and the waste is no longer!

CCL have worked on various projects with numerous different clients, for eg. government departments like the NHS and MOD. But they also come in for smaller jobs with smaller demolition companies like Birstalls Ltd as well as large applications for organisations like Aggregate Industries. With their 2 RM70s, CCL cover a wide range of applications. The recycled products produced include recycled tarmac, recycled bricks, sand and all of the aggregates like 6f2, 75mm down etc. In combination with the RUBBLE MASTER single-deck screen CS2500 on the end of the RM70 they even produce classified 8mm down for block manufacturers and MOT type1 from production waste material.

RM70 – big in processing Tarmac

At Aggregate Industries CCL crushed scrap Tarmac down to a tight specification. They have dealt with thousands of tons of Tarmac Scalpings with cat's eye under boxes in it. The recycling specialists of Contract Crushers Ltd have developed their own specific method to deal with this type of input:
They open up the crusher gap to the max and process the mix of Tarmac and metal at very low speed with the RM70 as a sort of pre-screening. This way, the metal parts will not harm the impact crusher and the magnetic separator reliably removes any metal parts from the Tarmac. By using this method up to 3,000 tons a day can be processed. During the second stage, the Tarmac is processed in the RM70 with the hammers closed to whatever size the final product demands – eg. 15 mm. Thus the powerful RM70 produces 120 tons per hour of 15 mm down, or 100 tons of 8 mm value grain, according to the specification. At a different location of Aggregates Industries in Peterborough, CCL processed 10,000 tons of Tarmac. The client can now reuse this material – which was a small mountain before the RM70 came – as RAP and saved the company a small fortune in the process, let alone the effect landfill would have had.

Silent-as-a-whisper performance in tight locations

At Globe Road in Leeds CCL's RM70 had to handle brick and reinforced concrete. The job was a tight situation – lying next to a block of residential flats which were only recently built. The application was to crush brick and concrete without disturbing the residents and keeping the dust down. This was just an ideal situation for the quiet RM70 with it’s comprehensive enviro package for dust and noise suppression plus little emissions.

 

 

High-value final grain with almost no fines from sandstone

The Compact Recycler RM70 also has a special appearance in a sandstone quarry located within the heart of a residential area. Every six weeks or so, CCL attends Woodkirk Stone Quarry in Morley to salvage all waste materials within the quarry and turn them into a re-saleable product: 75 mm down, roughly 15.000 t, a week’s work. The sandstone is of particular interest to the stone quarry: they blast large stone blocks from the face of the quarry and produce top quality stone for prime quality finished face work. Here the RM70 is tasked with producing as little fines as possible. So CCL had the configuration of wearer plates altered to the conditions in order to meet the demands.
Transportation is fast and easy with standard haulage equipment, as seen here with CCL’s first RM70 being delivered to Woodkirk Stone Quarry in Morley for the first time in April 2007. Thanks to comprehensive remote control functions, the crawler gear mobile crusher is unloaded in no time and set up and running in only ten minutes.

But there is a new challenge for the RUBBLE MASTER RM70: In Grimsby CCL is about to start their biggest project yet, where they will crush approx 40,000 tons of brick and reinforced concrete.

 

 

 

 

People in the UK have their own ways of doing things and it takes quite a lot of persuasion to get them to even look at something new”, states Pete Thomas confident of his ongoing success and what it can mean for the country itself. “I do feel that we are now making good progress here in the UK with the recycling of everything.” It is people like Pete who first take advantage of the RUBBLE MASTER technology and establish their business aside from the mainstream, all of them with a focus on quality. But as the success story of more than 15 years of RUBBLE MASTER Compact Recyclers has shown so far, there will be many to follow.