articleAutomate to save money
Compact & Bale is offering Strautmann Automate to Save recycling machinery aimed at the logistics market.
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productPackaging waste cut
Enabling it to send out 750,000 fewer cardboard and wooden boxes to customers and save hundreds of tonnes of cardboard and paper, Reynolds has implemented a reusable transit packaging (RTP) crate scheme with Schoeller Allibert.
productRecycling benefits shine out
When Endon Lighting approached Greenbank for help with the excess plastic wrapping and cardboard that is a bi-product of its business, Greenbank recommended the installation of two balers – one for shrink wrap and the other for cardboard.
productHalf the price in half the space
The Strautmann BaleTainer is a fully automatic-tie baler with a small footprint that can be installed inside or out without additional protection.
productEco-friendly void fill
Packaging Aids, trading as Packer offers a range of heavy duty carton shredders that convert everyday waste paper, cardboard and corrugated board into highly effective void fill.
productWheelie bin handlers
Contact Attachments has launched three wheelie bin forklift attachments that lift wheelie bins into waste skips without the need for manual labour.
productDolav aces tests
TÜV SÜD has been putting the Dolav Ace to the test. The independent test body has dropped, crushed, spiked and rotated the plastic pallet box, which is claimed to have outperformed other, apparently similar, products.
productVSD cuts baler energy costs
Cardboard packing manufacturer, Smurfit Kappa is saving nearly £2800 a year on electrical energy costs following the installation of an ABB variable-speed drive on its baler, which is used to compact offcuts from cardboard processing lines.
productBalers relaunched
Baler manufacturer and recycling equipment engineers Middleton Engineering re-launched its baler division under the SCAPA brand at RWM 2013 in a move to differentiate this growing area of its operations from other heavy engineering projects.
productMan hit by forklift because walkway was blocked
The Goods Out area of ECO Plastic’s warehouse had a designated pedestrian walkway but that was blocked due to building work and the company had not provided an alternative safe route for pedestrians.
articleAssisting with waste and recycling at Terminal 2
Bradshaw Electric Vehicle has delivered a vehicle to the newly revamped Heathrow Terminal 2. The truck will be used to ensure waste and recycling is not delayed.
productHelp to achieve zero landfill
Leafield Environmental has supported The Vaillant Group in achieving its goal to produce ‘Zero Landfill’ waste with a recycling scheme for wood, cardboard, plastic and metal. Leafield Envirobins were installed in fifteen office areas for the segregation and collection of paper, plastic bottles, cans and general waste.
productMulti-material IPS balers
At RWM 2014, which takes place at the NEC, Birmingham, 16th-18th September, on stand 5Q160 Jarshire will feature a specially commissioned scale model of an IPS Twin Ram Bale Tie baler with a waterfall conveyor.
productNew appointment for FHG IPP Logipal
FHG IPP Logipal appoints Dan Cronin as European WEEE Manager…
articleCentralised recycling approach
Home, leisure and garden products retail group, The Range uses a Middleton baler and conveyor to help with an active policy on minimising waste to landfill.
productRecycled plastic containers
Schoeller Allibert has launched a new range of low cost plastic containers, manufactured entirely from recycled material.
productEasypack achieves ISO14001:2004
Easypack has announced that it is now ISO14001:2004 certified; an internationally recognised standard that is helping the company to put in place various initiatives, enabling more recycling of waste and reduced energy usage.
productNo more double handling
After meeting Compact & Bale at an exhibition and seeing the Strautmann AutoLoadBaler MD of contract packaging company, Cannon Packing and Logistics, Ian Doye, wanted to re-evaluate the company’s waste management process so that the staff could spend more time on core business and less time on waste handling.
articleCardboard is the new scrap metal for thieves
A spike in the theft of paper and cardboard earmarked for recycling is being blamed on scrap thieves looking for “soft” targets.
articleAgency worker killed by overturned forklift
Man was on his first day at work and was not wearing a seatbelt. In addition, forklift trucks were unsuitable for the work being carried out.
