Is your Shear built like a Fortress?

As one of the largest and fastest growing metal processors in the UK, Enablelink handle over 250,000 tonnes of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal per year.

Blue Machinery (Southern) recently supplied the company with a brand-new Fortress FS-145R Mobile Shear to help boost productivity and process larger items of scrap. The model is the largest in the Shearcore line-up and is the first supplied by Blue Machinery (Southern).

Weighing in at just over 13 tonne with a jaw opening of 1,092mm, the Fortress FS-145R can process larger material more efficiently. Enablelink’s Managing Director, Roy Millard explains “we recently received a 36-tonne end-of-life JCB excavator into the yard. Previously this would have taken 2-4 men half a day to flame cut this machine up, but with the FS-145R shear we manged to chop up the whole machine in under 20 minutes”.

The FS-145R punches well above its weight class with unmatched power at the tip, jaws built using six-inch single piece solid steel and a huge pivot group to dramatically improve performance and durability.

Enablelink’s new FS-145R has been fitted to a 70 tonne excavator and has certainly been proving its worth within their busy yard. Roy adds “its non-stop here. We have plans to open two more sites in the near future as our business continues to expand. We source in excess of a quarter of a million tonnes per year from a wide range of industries throughout the UK and forward materials ready for the manufacture of new products to a diverse consumer base both domestically and internationally”.

Commenting on the performance of the new shear, Roy says “we like the design of the shear and its smooth performance. It was a significant investment but so far its performance suggests to us that this will pay for itself in no time. The shear is taking everything in its stride thanks to the robust build and design”.

Fortress by Shearcore has become the new world standard for mobile shears used within the demolition and scrap recycling industries. All Fortress mobile shears are designed and manufactured within Exodus Global’s 90,000 square foot facility located in Superior, Wisconsin. The range consists of the FS-25, FS-35, FS-45, FS-55, FS-75, FS-95 and FS-145, suitable for excavators in the 14 to 100 tonne range.

The FS-145’s ‘shark fin’ rear lug design transfers stress in a new and improved method over any previous design in the mobile shear world, which allows higher forces to be distributed over greater mass. It has a razor blade located in the front guide blade making it easier for guide blade shimming. There are tapped blades throughout and rear lugs that run the full length of the shear body creating a superior structure.

Blue Machinery and Murray Plant are the exclusive UK dealers for Shearcore’s Fortress shears. Enablelink have been a longstanding customer for Blue Southern and Roy discussed the relationship between to two companies “The support and service that we get from the team at Blue Southern has been excellent. We have been dealing with them for the last eight years or so, having acquired Fuchs material handlers from them over that time, and we are happy to continue building on that great working relationship. With another two sites being developed, we will undoubtedly need to invest in more equipment in the near future.”