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Salters grows workshop recycling services

GROWING DEMAND AND AN INCREASING FOCUS

on environmental issues is prompting Auckland’s Salters Group to expand its workshop recycling services.

Salters has been offering recycling of disposable products such as oil filters, plastic oil containers and oil rags, for about eight years.

The company says the workshop recycling business complements Salters’ core transport and disposal services for hazardous waste – including waste oil – founded in 1980.

Now Salters is launching a North Island-wide recycling and waste oil collection from a new depot in Feilding.

Used plastic containers and oil filters are the main products targeted for recycling.

Customers will collect used plastic oil containers in either IBC cages or 660-litre trolley bins (for workshops that use smaller containers). Following collection the containers are shredded and the waste oil is extracted.

Andrea Waddell, Salters’ business development manager, says the biggest challenge has been ensuring the shredded product is sufficiently clean for recycling: “This is achieved using a proprietary process developed by Salters.

“The clean shredded plastic is binned and delivered free of charge to Future Post, who have ongoing demand for the product – which is made into fence posts and raised garden beds.”

Salters also recycles used oil filters, collected in either 360 L. wheelie bins or 1000 L. open-top, plastic-lined IBCs.

To cater specifically for truck workshops, Salters has upsized its collection bins from 240 L. and offers the larger 360 L. bins for filters.

The used filters are “drained and shredded, and the waste oil is recycled. The washed product is separated into metallic and non-metallic components," says Waddell.

“The shredded product is then sent to scrapmetal merchants, where it is able to be used locally for products such as steel reinforcing. We don’t ship any of the recycled items offshore.".

Waddell joined Salters in March, bringing to the business nearly 20 years’ experience in the oil industry and a background in road transport.

As a result, she says: “I find it easy to engage with workshop staff and road transport operators and talk about how we can improve their sustainability and provide them with a local recycling solution.” T&D

New disc brake trailer axle launched

A“NEW AND ENHANCED” TS2

ECO Disc trailer axle has been introduced on the New Zealand market by BPW Transport Efficiency (BPWTE).

The new TS2 disc brake variant replaces the company’s successful TSB ECO Disc offering.

It has, says BPWTE, “already been the standard in Europe for a few years” and has now also undergone “extensive field testing in Australia.”

The new brake assembly for 19.5” 8/275 and 22.5” 10/335 PCD wheels is model TS2 3709 (replacing TSB 3709).

According to BPWTE, the new TS2 system offers “several unique advantages over the TSB system it replaces.”

The callipers feature a single offset tappet design (OTD) “which achieves an ideal balance of the forces and moments acting on the brake pads.

“The inner brake pad (active lining) and the outer brake pad (passive lining) are now different. The inner pad has a thicker steel backing and must always be fitted in the inner position.

“The reinforced (thicker) steel backing of the inner pad and the OTD, gives even braking pressure across the pad and disc to ensure uniform pad wear and consequently longer pad life.”

The OTD means that the callipers are now directional, with an arrow cast into the calliper showing the direction that the disc must turn when the vehicle is moving forwards. The improvements mean that the new TS2 callipers are not compatible with TSB axle beams and cannot be retrofitted.

Other features of the TS2 system include a long service life, simplified brake setting and a weight saving of up to two kilograms per axle.

A multi-functional adjuster “systematically integrates the key functions in just a few innovative components. This not only reduces the number of interfaces, but also significantly improves the brake’s reliability and performance.” T&D