issue 2 2016
Quality Recyclables
The new BlueMAC remediation Plant at Lowmac Waste & Recycling How the impressive bespoke plant increases waste processing and enhances the quality of end-products
Meet the Powerscreen Premiertrak 400 jaw crusher as it gets to work in one of Lincolnshire’s largest privately owned quarries
Introducing Westeria® to the UK German engineered Windsifters
What’s new at Blue? Blue Scotland’s new 3.5 acre facility Focus on Blue Southern Service Blue Spares expands
mail In this issue... Lowmac Waste & Recycling New plant produces quality recyclables......4
Sales team expansion Blue Spares grows from strength to strength........................................................6
Creeton Quarry take on a new Powerscreen Premiertrak 400 jaw crusher We find out how it has benefited their business ..................................................8
Focus on Blue Southern Service How the internal support team have tuned and streamlined their service .....................10
Environmental & financial success story for ADM Regeneration..........................................12 BlueMAC Spreads Its Wings! BlueMAC appoints SKALA as exclusive distributor down under.................................14
The new Doppstadt HS 800 Selector.....................................15
Scotland
Makes its Move
Blue Scotland has recently moved to a 3.5 acre facility, incorporating newly renovated office space, workshop, refurbishment bays and a 40,500 sq. ft warehouse which can store stock machinery as well as over £500,000 worth of spare parts.
Introducing Westeria Fördertechnik Our Exclusive UK Distribution Agreement with the German Windsifter company.......16
The new facility is located within half a mile of their previous site in Stirling, with the whole team making the move at the end of May.
KCM achieve 7% LOI through BlueMAC Fines Clean Up Plant...18
Blue Scotland has grown steadily since inception in 1997, becoming renowned north of the border for their industry expertise and technical knowledge, not only from their engineers but across their entire sales team and office staff alike. As with all Blue companies, Austin Carey and his team place great emphasis on developing strong business relationships and offering a first class service, with many customers having dealt with Blue Scotland for almost 20 years. With this in mind, the new building includes a dedicated training room that has been incorporated to offer a space for the continual development of engineering staff and will also provide an excellent training environment for customer site operatives.
The Powerscreen Warrior 1400X proves its worth on Shetland.......................19
Owen Gourlay joins Blue Scotland Meet our new Customer Support Manager..........................................................19
Blue Spares charity football match Blue Spares took on Morrisons in aid of Cancer Research and Sue Ryder...............20
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The vast capacity of the new warehouse means Blue Scotland can offer the best possible machinery and spares service
Having secured the building in late 2015, work began in early February with all areas undergoing substantial renovation. Blue Scotland’s investment in new, modern feeling offices as well as a state of the art workshop and refurbishing facility, ensures that they can offer the best possible service to their customers for many years to come.
The facility will enable us to stock significantly more spare parts and in larger volumes for off the shelf availability as well as state of the art workshop facilities for our service department to utilise. Austin Carey, Managing Director, Blue Scotland
Blue Scotland MD Austin Carey commented “This is a very exciting and progressive move for Blue Scotland. For the last 20 years a wide range of Scottish customers have bestowed their faith in us and this investment goes some way to returning that loyalty by helping to provide them with the very best aftersales support within our industry. Specifically, the facility will enable us to stock significantly more spare parts and in larger volumes for off the shelf availability as well as state of the art workshop facilities for our service department to utilise.”
Find our new Blue Scotland facility at:
Blue Scotland telephone numbers remain the same:
9 Craigleith Road, Broadleys Business Park, Stirling FK7 7LQ
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The new BlueMAC plant at Lowmac’s recycling facilities exceeds Loss of Ignition (LOI) - fines LOI values are now well below 10%.
Versatile Bespoke Plant Produces
Quality Recyclables for Lowmac Waste & Recycling Lowmac Waste & Recycling has invested in an extremely versatile, tailor-made recycling plant to further increase its waste processing capacity and, specifically, enhance the cleanliness and quality of the endproducts created during the recycling process. Turning to equipment distributor Blue Machinery Scotland and its sister company BlueMAC Manufacturing for a suitable solution, Lowmac Waste & Recycling reports excellent results from their new materials remediation system which has been installed in the company’s North Ayrshire premises. Currently processing a wide variety of incoming waste streams at around 1000 tonnes per week at a rate of between 25 and 30 tonnes per hour, the plant is more than capable of greater volumes should future needs arise. The new BlueMAC system, designed and built to combine a series of compatible
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processors and conveyor arrays in a convenient and compact under-cover configuration, is capable of treating a broad range of mixed waste and, consequently, can provide material remediation to a very high quality. Clean fines, secondary aggregates, biomass, animal bedding, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, amongst other saleable materials, are all being produced from this specially designed, multi-tasking plant. Lowmac’s new plant is currently recycling offcuts and woodwaste derived from a kitchen manufacture, as well as trommel fines, C&D, C&I and ash waste. The materials remediation plant is successfully processing the woodwaste by removing tramp metals and reducing the incoming stream to -10mm for animal bedding and larger woodchip which is then put through a washplant for further processing to produce biomass. Fines generated during recycling processes can include materials such as wood, aggregates, glass, ceramics and organics and this
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mixture has traditionally found its way into landfill sites. However, with continually increasing landfill regulations and taxes, recycling professionals are having to ensure even more efficient and effective fines clean-up. The recently introduced Loss of Ignition (LOI) test requires recyclers to sample materials to ensure that each load has an LOI of 10% or less in order to be considered eligible for a lower rate of landfill tax. The BlueMAC plant installed at Lowmac’s state-of-the-art recycling facilities in Irvine exceeds this requirement, taking the fines LOI values well below 10%. The -75mm C&D wastestream is also subjected to metal and lights extraction through the air blower and eddy current separator in the system which, combined with the single bay picking station, results in a good clean end-product ready for washing and further processing into materials suitable for drainage stone, haul roads, Type 1 recycled aggregate etc.
This plant is proving to be an excellent and versatile addition to our recycling and reclamation capabilities and is performing very well. As always, we have been extremely well served by Blue Machinery Scotland and have the greatest confidence in their excellent after sales product support; also we are all very impressed with the build quality and productivity of the BlueMAC equipment and their very professional and efficient installation team. Another added benefit for us is the modular nature of the BlueMAC plant which will allow us to expand and enlarge it should the need arise. Kenny Smith, Managing Director, Lowmac Waste & Recycling
The Process Depending on the material being processed, Lowmac’s new plant starts with a Powerscreen Warrior 1400 screen which ensures the incoming feed material stream is <75mm – the size for which the system has been designed. An elevated conveyor array with an overband magnet feeds through into the covered plant where a Spaleck Double Deck separator combines a high technology 3D twin top deck with a flip-flow bottom screen to further separate the material through the two processes to 1075mm, discharging the high quality clean fines to a collection conveyor and thence to the stockpile. A further conveyor takes the residual oversize material through to a BlueMAC Typhoon ADS (Air Density Separator) to remove the “lights”, with the heavier fractions being taken via transfer and feed conveyors to a single bay picking station and onto a BlueMAC All Metal Separator unit for further ferrous and non-ferrous metal separation and extraction. The remaining cleaned hardcore at the end of the whole process is destined to become crushed recycled aggregates for a multitude of civil engineering and construction uses.
Lowmac Recycling was founded in 1973, starting life trading in secondary metals. In 1981, the company moved into waste management with the introduction of skip and roll-on-off hire for household, commercial and industrial waste collection. Lowmac has a secure shredding facility in Ayr and operates two purpose-built waste treatment sites in Irvine from where the company provides a large range of environmental and recycling services. These include ferrous and non-ferrous metals recycling, ELV, WEEE collection and processing, green waste processing, wood and general waste recycling, reclamation of recycled aggregates and soils and the production of animal bedding and biofuel. Lowmac also produces and supplies a wide range of building, civil engineering and landscaping recycled products, from haul-road materials to landfill cover, screened soils and sand, composting and soil improvement material. Other services provided include crane, excavator and loading shovel hire, demolition, haulage and environmental consultancy. Lowmac Recycling has been a Blue Machinery Scotland customer for over eighteen years and, with this latest addition to their modern recycling plant and equipment holding, continues this long-standing allegiance.
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Sales Team Expansion
Blue Spares have expanded over the last few months with five new faces added to existing sales team.
at Blue Spares
The Warehouse team from left to right Dean Barlow, Ray Thomas, Radek Majchorowicz, Andy Litherland, Pete Quinn
In line with the entire organisation, this particular Group Company continues to thrive, with 2015 seeing further growth for the business which has its main office and stock holding in Warrington, Cheshire and a further warehouse in Stirling, Scotland. Numerous factors can be attributed to the growth including an increase in stockholding to over £3million as well as heavy investment in technology to ensure a highly efficient despatch process. This enables the team to locate, pick and pack parts in an exceptionally short timeframe, so parts can be sent out the same day to ensure customer equipment is back up and running as quickly as possible. No doubt the greatest strength however, as highlighted by numerous customers, is the existing team that Managing Director, Sean Warburton and Sales Director Andy Southern currently have in place. With over 20 years collective experience, they have in-depth knowledge of all Blue and even competitor equipment, often being able to identify the required part even when the customer is unable to diagnose the issue. With over 2,000 customers however, the previous team structure meant they were limited to processing orders, rather than proactively meeting customer requirements. With ever increasing competition from home and abroad and in order to increase the level of customer service as well as help meet growth targets, Blue Spares have employed these five new members of the team. Having gone through an initial 6 week training
The Spares Team from left to right - Jane Craig, Andy Southern, Matthew Chesworth, Alan Atherton, Sean Warburton, Andy Haskayne, Tom Hulme, Lee Holman, Carl Broderick, David Nowell, Chris Thomas, Sap Riley, Paul Houston
plan, the new sales staff have started to take on their own accounts. Furthermore, with a team of 11 sales staff rather than the original 6, each team member now have fewer customers, allowing them to focus more on each individual customer as well as add value by offering excellent technical knowledge, all backed up by outstanding parts availability. The new sales team will be proactively assisting our customers to ensure the efficient running of their equipment and the subsequent minimisation of downtime. Blue Spares is aiming to become the UK one stop shop for all parts for Powerscreen and Doppstadt equipment by providing first class service backed up by a first class team who understand their customers business’s and fulfil their every need.
Why Choose Blue Spares & Genuine OEM Parts? Only genuine OEM wear parts are created specifically for the machines we supply based upon many years of knowledge and experience All original wear parts undergo continuous market comparisons to ensure that they offer the customer the most cost effective solution, minimising the life-cost of your equipment Even the slightest change in wear part design may result in drastic changes to the effectiveness of the machines Our parts fit perfectly, meaning ease of installation and minimisation of downtime Any deviation from authentic OEM wear part design in either material or dimensional specification, can result in serious damage to the machines
Meet the Blue Spares Team
All our wear parts are subject to continuous development and extensive field-testing Only approved manufacturer dealers have the full technical support service for advice and expertise on application suitability Only the use of OEM wear parts ensures full warranty cover for your machines and the validity of your insurance
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Dave - What impressed you about Blue Spares?
Alan - What are you looking for personally from working at Blue Spares?
Matthew - Why choose Blue over other job opportunities?
Andy - How has your experience been with Blue Spares so far?
Tom - What’s impressed you most about Blue Spares?
“The amount of stock held on site and sent out every day. The atmosphere and the way the team works.”
“Chance to progress to the level of the experienced salesmen already employed through ongoing training”
“I didn’t want just a job, I wanted a career.”
“Fantastic, great experience, grown in confidence and felt part of a team.”
“The teamwork and support throughout the business.”
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The Powerscreen Premiertrak 400 jaw crusher gets to work in one of Lincolnshire’s largest privately owned quarries The 70 Acre Creeton Quarry in Grantham is probably the biggest privately owned limestone quarry in Lincolnshire, and has recently secured planning to continue processing until 2042. The 250,000 tonnes of material quarried each year is used for a range of purposes from agricultural fertiliser to building stones, lintels and tiles. Quarry Manager, Steve Johnson, who has been running the site for the last 11 years has traditionally used competitor machines to those offered by Blue to crush the limestone. By his own admission, “they had always performed ‘OK’, so when we needed a new machine we just went for the same brand”. Recently however Steve decided to take a few machines on demo before purchasing a pre-screen crusher, with one of those machines being a Powerscreen Premiertrak 400.
As soon as I saw the Premiertrak 400 working, I knew that was the right one for us. Unlike the other machines we saw and were even used to, it was incredibly solid and sturdy, even without legs. The design wasn’t overly complicated and the whole thing just worked well, making our production better. Steve Johnson, Quarry Manager, Creeton Quarry
Of course a further advantage of Powerscreen equipment is its resale value. As highlighted by the Management Team at Creeton, if they wanted to sell the machine, they would have a buyer within two weeks and wouldn’t potentially be left stuck with it for months on end. Right away Steve started looking to buy one of the Premiertrak 400 jaw crushers, and was finally advised to try Blue London who had an ex demo machine available for immediate delivery. The machine had only done around 300 hours so was virtually new and a deal was soon struck with Blue London Sales Director Barry O’Regan.
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The machine went straight to work and is currently feeding a Chieftain 2100 triple deck creating four fractions, all of which are being used within the construction industry. While this deal was the first between Blue and Creeton, the working relationship seems sure to continue with Steve looking to use Blue London for on going support and wear parts. As he mentions, “It doesn’t matter if you buy a Rolls Royce, if you can’t get the back-up, it’s no good to us”. With Blue London’s team of service engineers and The Group’s dedicated spares facility in Warrington, Blue can certainly provide the very best aftersales support to Steve and the team in Grantham. Commenting on the sale, Barry O’Regan told Blue Mail, “It was a pleasure to work with Steve Johnson from the outset, with his dedication and understanding much appreciated while we put the deal together. The team at Blue London are excited to work alongside Creeton Quarry going forward”.
Powerscreen Premiertrak 400 jaw crusher features Excellent reduction capability
Material Sizes 4” 2” Sub-base Lime dust
Uses To aid the construction of warehousing and industrial developments.
Processing Power Recordings show that on average the set-up is processing up to 400tph.
Hydraulic folding feed hopper with boltless fixing system Excellent under crusher access with a hydraulic tilting conveyor system Economical to operate with a highly efficient direct drive system Forceful crushing action with high swing jaw Height adjustable product conveyor Extended hopper - hydraulically folding
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Focus on Blue Southern Service
The Blue Southern team from left to right - Louise Smith, Pauline Grosselle, Tamsin Weston, Steve Pople, Stuart Hardiman, Tom Paget, George Collins
Like a piece of equipment repaired and restored by one of their field service engineers, Blue Southern’s Internal Service Support Team has become, over the last few years, as proficient as a finely tuned machine. Headed by Commercial Service Manager Stuart Hardiman, a number of changes have been implemented within the service department over that period of time, not least relating to the processes triggered when a call comes in. Initially everything is recorded, with an email being sent to the customer confirming the key points discussed. From there, Service Controller Steve Pople analyses the schedule and imminent locations of the engineers, both out on the road and based at their Head Office with any spare part requirements ordered via Blue Spares. The engineer receives all the details along with any available photographs and the job is completed as efficiently and effectively as possible. Stuart tells Blue Mail, “In the vast majority of cases, if we get a call into the department before midday, we will be on site the very next day. Furthermore, with the support of Blue Spares behind us that next day visit can include any spare part requirements, so the job is completed first time in over 90% of instances.
Focusing on prevention, as well as the cure What impresses most however about the Service Team at Southern, is not their resolute dedication to provide the best possible service to their customers or their experienced, highly trained engineers. It is not even the processes in place that, for
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example, allow customers direct access to engineers to help achieve a fix, even without a site visit and a cost to the customer. It is their focus on preventing the machines from breaking down in the first place as well as helping customers identify and potentially fix their own faults, meaning more machine uptime, lower costs and ultimately greater profitability for their businesses.
4 New Machine Training Just before a new machine is despatched from the Sothern office to a customer’s site, training will be offered to the machine operative on how to maintain the machine in its best possible condition. This will include guidance on required daily checks and instruction on simple maintenance tasks such as greasing, bearing preservation and ensuring all levels are topped up. It will also incorporate tuition on E-stops so operatives can investigate why a machine has stopped.
The quality of the equipment we have available and our sales teams sell the first machine to a customer, but it is our service and backup that ensures subsequent business. Brian Maxwell, Managing Director, Blue Southern
How will this be achieved?
4 New Training Facility Investment has been made into a new dedicated training facility, which will house circuit boards, control panels and PLC’s from all the leading machinery sold by Blue Southern. Regular customer training sessions will then be run by Group Technical Director Tony Weir allowing operators to build on their knowledge and help improve the running of their machines.
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4 Engineers going the Extra Mile Blue Southern Service Engineers are trained to not only fix faults or undertake a standard service but to analyse a machine during any visit. This enables the engineer to identify and highlight possible future issues. If these are rectified it will decrease the chance of future breakdowns and the customer incurring any unnecessary costs.
Why choose Blue Southern Service?
Meet some of the team
Direct Access to the Manufacturer Access to £2.75 million worth of parts via Blue Spares Numerous engineers meaning faster response times Heavy investment in technology, equipment and training Saves time with one call rather than several calls to potentially numerous service companies and parts suppliers Purpose built service plans designed around your requirements that can be built into capital costs. So you know exactly how much the machine is likely to cost Operator training and advice Commenting on the service element of Blue Southern’s business, Managing Director Brian Maxwell commented, “Our aftersales service is critical, not only to the success of Blue Southern, but the entire group. The quality of the equipment we have available and our sales teams sell the first machine to a customer, but it is our service and backup that ensures subsequent business. I am very proud of the service team we have here at Blue Southern. The benefits we can now offer over our competitors, including our new training facility, illustrates our commitment to providing a superior package to our loyal customers.”
Paul Holder
Tom Paget
Engineer
Engineer
Q. What’s good about your job? A. T he variation of work, from basic servicing to highly technical faults. Also assisting the sales department with machine demonstrations.
Q. What experience & qualifications do you hold? A. 30 years in engineering, from agricultural machinery, plant & commercial vehicles, 4 year apprenticeship in agricultural engineering plus various Powerscreen and Doppstadt courses.
Q. What on the job training have you received? A. I’ve received lots of training including Powerscreen level 2. I know if there’s any other specific training I need, Blue are happy to organise this for me.
Q. What impresses you about Blue’s service offering? A. We are able to offer a brilliant nationwide service because of the location of our depots and the flexibility of our engineers. Also the office staff to back it up.
Q. What do you think sets Blue Southern service apart from other service companies?
Q. What do you think sets Blue Southern Service apart from its competitors?
A. R esponse time and being part of a
A. How well we all work together to
good team. Also all engineers are capable of seeing the job through from start to finish.
ensure the customers, both old and new are given great service every time.
Blue Southern Services offered Maintenance
Machine Demonstrations
Breakdowns
Service Contracts – 1 year, 2 year or purpose built for you so it can be built into your capital cost
Servicing
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Environmental & financial success story for ADM Regeneration
Large volume of crushed product on site generates all MOT Type 1 and vibro stone required for the sites redevelopment, minimising haulage and removing the need to mine valuable natural assets
ADM Regeneration chose Blue for two new Powerscreen Premiertrak R400 Jaw Crushers for their Peel Logistics contract, preparing the former 45 acre Sonae Chipboard Factory site in Knowsley, Merseyside. ADM Regeneration based in Lymm, was formed in 2011 by current owner Adam Matthews, undertaking demolition, dismantling, decommissioning and earth works projects initially using hired equipment. Due to constantly completing projects to the highest standard and consistently to preagreed timescales, the business grew quickly leading to the progressive step of purchasing their first piece of plant equipment, a used Powerscreen XR400. The machine was 4 years old with 4,000 hours on the clock and ran virtually non-stop for a further 4 years and 8,000 hours due to the care the machine was receiving in the form of OEM parts and regular servicing from Blue Spares and Blue Central Engineers.
The Premiertrak 400 was crushing circa 2,000 cubic metres of material per week and doing an exceptional job. Not only that, but the fuel consumption was averaging out at just 20 litres per hour, so the machine was proving to be highly efficient. Adam Matthews, ADM Regeneration
Over the years, the relationship between Blue and ADM stayed solid, so when ADM were awarded the contract by Peel Logistics to ‘prepare’ the former 45 acre Sonae Chipboard Factory site in Knowsley, on Merseyside, Blue were firmly in the frame to provide the heavy machinery ADM anticipated they would require to do the job. Specifically the job involved the removal of all relic slabs, structures and foundations as well as filling in the voids left in a controlled manor to allow for cost effective foundation solutions to be achieved during future development of the site. The company did look at various suppliers for the crushing equipment required for the job, but the robust build of Powerscreen equipment and the fact that their previous machines from the manufacturer had worked so well were both contributing factors for
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Adam choosing a New Premiertrak R400 Jaw Crusher. A further plus for this particular application was the machines’ ability to cope well with contaminants such as rebar, specifically the hydraulic release chamber, allowing the chamber to ‘dump’ and pass uncrushable material. It wasn’t long into the contract before ADM decided to purchase a second identical machine due to ADM’s ever increasing workload, which included the award of several large contracts not to mention the volume of materials requiring crushing on Sonae. Over the 26 weeks of working on the site, ADM extracted and crushed approximately 20,000 cubic metres of tarmac and 50,000 cubic metres of concrete. The Premiertrak R400 was taking the material down to less than 125mm, however, due to the high quality of the crush, it is likely that the material will be further screened to create a high quality secondary aggregate of MOT Type 1 specification together with 45-75mm stone that will be used for the proposed foundations of vibro stone columns. As a consequence of the large volumes of crushed product generated, it will be possible to generate all of the MOT Type 1 and vibro stone for the redevelopment of the site, which aside from the significant financial saving it will afford the client, represents huge environmental benefits by minimising haulage to and from site and removing the need to mine valuable natural assets, an achievement that Peel Logistics, strongly supports. Commenting on the project, Matt Fitton, Director of Development at Peel Logistics said, “We selected ADM Regeneration to help create a truly oven-ready land opportunity for build-to-suit options up to 800,000 sq ft at Knowsley Business Park. We are pleased that site works are now nearing completion thanks to a great job by Adam and his team.”
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BlueMAC’s International Sales Manager Drew Linton is flanked by SKALA’s Brook Griffiths (left) and Simon Toal (right)
New Doppstadt HS 800 Selector BlueMAC Spreads Its Wings! Since early 2014 when Blue Group and DMAC Engineering combined their expertise and resources to create bespoke MRF manufacturing specialist BlueMAC Manufacturing, the company has gone from strength to strength and seen a remarkable level of growth. Building on this success and looking to further its expansion programme, BlueMAC is now pleased to announce that it has appointed SKALA Australasia Pty Ltd as the exclusive distributor of BlueMAC products and services throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This partnership heralds new exporting opportunities into sophisticated and discerning markets for BlueMAC in partnership with SKALA – already a well-established equipment supplier and solutions provider for the recycling, mining, bulk materials and industrial processing sectors. Even at this early stage in the relationship, BlueMAC already has two plants in build for SKALA customers and when these are commissioned later in the year they will be two of Australia’s largest C&D processing facilities. SKALA Australasia Pty Ltd is headquartered in Newcastle, New South Wales and was established in 2012 by Simon Toal and Brook Griffiths. The company operates throughout Australasia and now has equipment installations in every state of Australia and New Zealand. The company has an enviable reputation for product quality, excellent customer service, reliability and value-for-money. Evolving towards providing a more holistic service to its customers, SKALA gets involved from concept development to installation and commissioning, through to maintenance and after sales product support. Historically, the company has delivered smaller recycling systems to its customers. However the enquiries and opportunities were increasing in size & complexity and the decision was made to seek a specialist manufacturing partner that the SKALA team could work with to deliver these larger projects. 14
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The oversize eliminator HS 800 Selector is designed to work in combination with a Doppstadt DW 3060. Its purpose is to produce a uniform end product with desired maximum grain size at the lowest possible operational cost whilst minimising the volume of fine fraction created. The Selector is a modular machine powered by the DW via an additional hydraulic connection creating a ‘plug and play’ scenario. There is no need for separate power or control system. An integrated re-circulation belt sends back the remaining oversize fraction to the shredder for re-shredding.
The appointment of SKALA is a major step in BlueMAC entering the world stage. SKALA, under the management of Simon and Brook, is a highly respected and successful company in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and this partnership between BlueMAC and SKALA will bring additional knowledge and experience to the recycling industry.
Features: Lowest production cost per tonne of end product Throughput capacity matching to DW 3060 Biopower Exchangeable screen decks utilising Quick-Change-Technology Mesh sizes in available S, M and L Powered from DW hydraulic system (70 l/min) Integrated re-circulation belt Mounted on hook lift frame for transport with hook lift truck
Technical data: Transport dimensions (LxWxH) 7.90 x 2.55 x 2.7 m Total weight (incl. star screen) approx 9.3 tons Screening area about 8.3 m² Screening area width about 1.4 m Screening area length about 5.9 m
Pat McGeary, Blue Group Chairman
Necessary hydraulic connection DW 70 liters per minute SKALA’s Simon Toal takes up the story. “BlueMAC was ideal for several reasons. The company can design, engineer and supply complete systems of the capacity our market requires and, like us, is a young, proactive and growing business. Being part of the UK’s Blue Group means they have hit the ground running with many successful installations already in the market; furthermore, Blue’s investment in people, facilities and resources is impressive. BlueMAC already has many systems which integrate with other SKALA brands and this enables us to really expand on the existing systems we have in Australia”. Mr Toal continues “Culturally we are aligned with common goals and the drive for success – and a real bonus for us is their innovative R&D programme and the broad range of BlueMAC equipment built in-house, such as the impressive All Metal Separator. After the initial discussions and a period of approximately six months getting to understand each other’s business and the many opportunities, we are delighted to have entered into this exclusive agreement to represent and deliver BlueMAC’s portfolio to the Australasian region”.
To find out how the HS 800 Selector can benefit your operation
Discharge height of fines discharge conveyor about 3.8 m
Call 0345 217 8755 The NEW
Doppstadt HS 800 Selector is available
June 2016
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Blue Group Announce Exclusive UK Distribution Agreement with Westeria Fördertechnik
Blue now exclusively offers Westeria® equipment in the UK offering sophisticated, highly engineered Windsifters and Bunker Systems. Blue Group are delighted to announce that an exclusive distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland has been agreed with Westeria Fördertechnik, a world leader in windsifter technology and conveyor systems. Westeria® equipment is unique due to its sophisticated, compact design and the company falls very much under the German ethos of outstanding engineering as well as offering a committed and highly competent aftersales service. The product range includes a series of Windsifters, (Windsifter AirStar and Windsifter AirBasic®), Bunker Systems, Conveyors and Material Distribution Systems. The main concept of the Windsifter technology starts with patented distribution disks which spread the material evenly across the acceleration belt before it is transported to the ejection edge. From there, material falls into an up current, generated through an adjustable air jet which is attached to the Windsifter underneath the feeding belt. The air stream meets the upper area of a rotation drum, which takes any light material over the top and into an expansion chamber. Heavy material, unaffected by the air jet, falls below onto a conveyor which extracts the material from the machine.
Westeria’s bunker systems including the MovingFloor®, MultiFeeder and MobileFeeder, are modularised and perfectly designed. A key benefit of the conveyor systems is that they can be tailored to individual requirements. All types of material,
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As you would expect, the quality of engineering within the Westeria products is quite exceptional, meaning the brand sits well within our portfolio of world-leading equipment. Furthermore, like Blue, the company places considerable focus on their aftersales service, ensuring maintenance can be undertaken and spare parts sourced quickly and easily. Pat McGeary, Blue Director
be it heavy building waste or light recycling material, can be transported safely and smoothly. The compact material distribution systems from Westeria® are ingeniously simple and simply ingenious, guaranteeing perfect material distribution for all separating processes. Westeria was founded in 1956 in Westbevern, with the company originally focusing on agricultural conveyors. Whilst over time the business expanded their range creating conveyors for different material types it wasn’t until 1988, when the business moved to Ostbevern, that they started to manufacture the Windsifters. Today the company is a leader on the world-wide stage, having been a permanent guest at IFAT in Munich as well as Pollutec in Paris and Lyon since 2008. As part of the agreement a team of eight sales and technical personnel from Blue visited Westeria HQ in North West Germany. They went through an intensive two day
training program to help further develop their understanding of the advanced, yet simple technology incorporated within this equipment. The visit also allowed the group from Blue to take in a tour of the 7,500m2 Westeria Facility, including the innovative Westeria® Technicum Pilot Plant. In a space covering 720 m² the company has set up a number of systems spread across 2 levels, purely for material testing and demonstration purposes. Westeria understand that every type of feed material is different and has its own specific characteristics, so potential customers are invited to send their own material for testing. They are then able to trace and monitor it, as it moves through the entire process. Following the tests, all the values and results can be discussed and analysed in specially equipped conference rooms. Westeria Fördertechnik rightly have great confidence in their technologies and the Pilot Plant allows customers to have the same level of confidence before making their investment.
To find out how a Westeria® Windsifter can benefit your site
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The ever flexible Powerscreen Warrior 1400X proves its worth on Shetland Towards the end of 2015 Shetland Quality Construction was awarded a contract to work on the new Anderson High School and Halls of Residence at Staney Hill in Lerwick. The project, which is costing a total of £55.75m will be funded in the main by the Scottish Government. It is due to open in July 2017 and will result in a four-storey school, which can accommodate up to 1,180 pupils. It will also include a three-storey, 100-bed residential building.
The specific role of Shetland Quality Construction was to help prepare the site for construction, incorporating the removal of overburden. It was during this process that the team at Shetland noticed a heavy stone content which they felt could actually be recycled and reused onsite. To achieve this however, owners Ivor Smith and David Black needed to purchase a screen to undertake the work. Having looked around at the various machines available the pair decided on a Warrior 1400X, their first purchase from Blue Scotland following a recommendation.
KCM achieve 7% LOI
through BlueMAC Fines Clean Up Plant KCM Waste Management is very much a family business with a passionate culture of innovation and continuous development. After speaking with Mark Hickling who founded the company with his brother Phil, the guys are constantly looking to the future, analysing the market and investigating future trends that will impact the business and offer potential growth. In its current guise, the company offers a wide range of services including Skip and Tipper Hire as well as accepting all kinds of waste including C&D and trade, comprising, when necessary, of a collection service utilising their own fleet of vehicles. The business takes waste from major private companies, as well as local authority organisations, such as Rotherham Council. In terms of area, KCM mainly covers Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield, but do go as far as Chesterfield. This densely populated belt of the UK ensures an exceptionally busy site, with lorries constantly depositing waste throughout the day, every day. It was on the back of advice taken from Blue Central, a company with which KCM have developed a strong relationship over many years, along with the company’s ethos of never standing still, that lead to them looking into a Fines Clean Up Plant. The objective being to ensure their fines material passed
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The benefits of the plant have been two fold. Our fines now are exceptionally clean, easily passing the LOI test. Plus the heavies are actually being sold to help fund this and other equipment to continually drive us forward as a business. Mark Hickling, KCM Waste Management
the 10% LOI threshold and qualified for the lower rate of landfill tax. KCM undertook their due diligence, looking into plants from three potential suppliers, including BlueMAC, but despite the competition it was they who Mark and Phil ultimately chose When asked about the decision Mark told us, “I know that when I call Blue, they are at the other end of the phone. It is that back up and support that makes all the difference”.
material handler feeds the long piece separator before an overband magnet extracts the ferrous. The material is then fed to a flipflow screen taking out the -10mm material, with the remainder being fed into the UK’s first BlueMAC Typhoon Air Density Separator. The light fraction goes into RDF production with the heavies being crushed along with other rubble coming into the site by a Powerscreen Premiertrak 300 jaw. The resulting 6F2 is then sold for road construction.
Mark went on to say, “It was also the advice we received, a long piece separator for example, which is not only proving very effective in itself, but is also helping to spread the material over the belt and therefore improving the effectiveness of other components within the plant.” The plant is being fed from the +50mm material extracted from the BlueMAC recycling plant that was already installed at the site. The hopper, loaded by a Fuchs
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This was our first ever dealing with Blue Scotland but what impressed us was the quick delivery, good customer service and very efficient spares department. David Black, Co-owner, Shetland Quality Construction
Throughout the project the machine is likely to process around 30,000 tonnes of material, sorting it into three fractions. Media installed is a 2mm bottom deck and a 22mm top deck with material size of 300mm down being loaded into the hopper. Permeable paving, filter drains and stone for road construction are the main uses of the sorted aggregate, and will result in considerable cost savings. Then of course there is the transport costs and environmental benefits of utilising the existing stone found at the site. The Powerscreen Warrior 1400X was ideal for both this project and Shetland Quality Construction due to its flexibility. The machine is aimed at operators who require a high performing, heavy duty, versatile machine that remains easy to transport. It offers improved performance, lower operating costs, and easier serviceability than competitor machines on the market. As its highly aggressive screen can accept bofor bars, finger screens, woven mesh and punch plates it can be used within this project and numerous others undertaken by Shetland in the future.
The quick set-up, as well as ease of access to change the decks were clear positives of this machine. The machines processing capacity as well as wider and higher belts for stockpiling also meant it was the obvious choice for us. Ivor Smith, Co-owner, Shetland Quality Construction
Owen Gourlay joins Blue Scotland as Customer Support Manager Blue Scotland have recently welcomed Owen Gourlay as Customer Support Manager to their continually growing and strengthening team. Owen joins with a wealth of experience in crushing and screening, having worked for RJT, one of the UK’s leading contractors, for over 16 years. Working closely with our Sales and Service teams, Owen will be initially focusing more
on Blue Scotland’s quarrying customers. The role will involve a wide range of responsibilities including presale application analysis, after sales site visits to train operators, optimising demonstrations and expanding our presence in the quarries throughout our territory. This new appointment will greatly assist our operation and the overall service offering to crushing and screening customers in Scotland and the North East.
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Blue Spares charity football match raises over £500 Blue Spares recently took on Morrisons in a charity football match, in aid of Cancer Research and Sue Ryder, an organisation which provides incredible hospice and neurological care for people facing frightening, life-changing diagnoses. A good crowd of almost 100 turned up to cheer on their respective team, on a warm spring evening at Chester City’s Deva Stadium. It was evident pre kick-off that Spares would have their work cut out, with a clear difference in average age between the two sides. In fact with Sales Director Andy Southern starting upfront for Spares, that disparity was circa 20 years. The two captains and organisers of the event, Sean and Simon Warburton fired up their respective sides and the game was underway. For the first 10 minutes the teams were just weighing each other up, like a couple of boxers dancing around the ring without either throwing a meaningful blow. As the game reached the fifteen minute mark however, an intercepted pass from Tomlinson in the Spares midfield lead to the first real chance with the Morrisons centre forward bearing down, one on one, on Spares keeper, Tom Hulme. Luckily for Tomlinson the goalkeeper pulled off a fantastic save, to ensure the game stayed goalless. This seemed to give Morrisons confidence as they started to enjoy more of the possession. The Spares defence stayed strong however. Lead by a majestic Tony Roe, the entire back four made numerous last ditch tackles to minimise any goal scoring opportunities.
Their resilience however could not last forever. As soon as the ball was cleared it was coming back, and eventually Morrisons got the breakthrough they deserved with a fine finish from just inside the area.
of time before Spares were on level terms, with numerous opportunities carved out and corners won. In fact, if you were a betting man your money would have been on Spares going on a win.
That is the way it stayed until the break, with the referees whistle sounding as sweet as a choir of singing angels to many in the Spares team. After a short lie down and the passing round of smelling salts and inhalers, the teams were back out, and whatever Manager Sean Warburton said to his team at half time, it certainly worked. Spares started to find their rhythm. The defence maintained their resilience, the midfield started to look assured on the ball and Alan Atherton and Dean Barlow were beginning to run riot upfront. Surely it was only a matter
Unfortunately however, the game was brought to an early end, due to an injury sustained by one of the Spares players after he jumped for the ball, completely unchallenged. Despite the premature ending to the game, the evening continued. Morrisons kindly provided a buffet, and along with a raffle, there was an auction incorporating a wide variety of gifts which had been donated. The evening was highly enjoyable, as well as proving to be very successful, with over £500 being raised for the two very worthy causes.
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