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NEWS Youngman invests in new state of the art technology Youngman Group, a leading supplier of innovative work at height solutions, has recently invested £2.5m in stateof-the-art, automated manufacturing technology at its plant in Maldon, Essex. Rising costs and growing competition from Eastern Europe and China have forced a rethink of the company’s largely manual manufacturing methods. This has resulted in the major investment which has been made in order to provide Youngman with a viable manufacturing facility in the UK, rather than outsource highly labour intensive processes overseas. Youngman’s production engineers identified laser cutting and robotic welding as the optimum areas for improvement and approached ABB, a global leader in power and automation technologies, with the task 8 April 2011 of undertaking the turnkey project. The new equipment, which includes two fully-automated welding cells complete with ABB’s IRB 1600 robots, will enable Youngman to compete rigorously against imports from lower cost economies, whilst aiding flexible production and reducing stockholding. Commenting on the investment, Youngman Group’s managing director Paul Bentley said: “We recognised that we needed to plan for the future as it was clear that costs were continuing to rise and the company was facing cheaper competition from both European and Chinese manufacturers. We are confident that this initial investment will help secure the future of both the company and its employees, with the added benefit of enabling the business to compete on a global basis.” Tarmac secures... Tarmac has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard after taking action on climate change by measuring, managing and reducing its carbon emissions by nearly 15 per cent. The Carbon Trust Standard is the UK’s leading independent certification for real carbon reduction and is based on a rigorous, independent assessment. It provides independent verification of the success of Tarmac’s comprehensive carbon management programmes and the company’s commitment to lowering its carbon footprint across all of its UK operations. Tarmac has delivered the 15 per cent reduction across all of its UK operations, including 537 UK quarries, asphalt plants, concrete plants, lime and cement operations. As part of this, the company has also cut CO 2 per tonne of cement by 41 per cent over the last 10 years. Dr Martyn Kenny, Tarmac’s Director of Sustainability said: “Securing this independent award recognises our long-term commitment to reducing our environmental impact and carbon across all of our operations. “We run a number of carbon management programme, which includes energy roadmaps and energy saving targets, employee training and awards. We’re also put in place a wide range of initiatives, from investing £13.4 million in a new, more energy efficient lime kiln at Tunstead which has cut CO 2 emissions by 40% per tonne of lime produced; new SMART metering technology that we’ve rolled out to each UK site, which provides us with live data to monitor and identify energy savings; and an extensive waste-derived fuels programme at our cement kiln. Our combined programmes have contributed to us delivering tangible carbon savings. We recognise that we need to continue to develop this important work, and the Carbon Trust Standard provides a very effective tool to help benchmark this progress.”
new Bomag landfill compactor keeps Barry at work Veolia Environmental Services operate the 10 hectare Sandy Lane landfill site near Bromsgrove in the West Midlands. Environmental management and safety are absolute priorities and the site has won many safety awards over the years, something that Site Manager Rob Pooler is justifiably proud of. A new Bomag Bc 972 rB-2 landfill compactor was delivered to the site in December 2010 replacing an older competitive machine. Although machine operator Barry Grimmett was due to retire at the end of last year, he has stayed on to drive the new Bomag after he sampled a Bomag in November! The pushing performance, stability, and comfort are ‘streets ahead’ of the previous machine according to Barry. Powered by a 400kW 8 cylinder water cooled Deutz engine and with each wheel having hydrostatic drive the Bomag 972 RB-2 is a safe, reliable, and robust purpose built landfill compactor with an articulated and oscillating chassis. Operator safety and comfort is well catered for with a ROPS cab, air conditioning, a suspension seat, and four independent high performance brakes. Separate parking and emergency braking systems automatically override the transmission function. The Sandy Lane site is currently handling over 2,000 tonnes of mixed waste a week and as this has to be spread, compacted, and covered with inert material the demands on the landfill compactor are high. Waste is delivered by road vehicles and tipped in the cell 20 tonnes at a time April 2011 NEWS and, according to Barry, the Bomag has the power and traction to ‘doze’ and spread a full load in one pass. The 4.5 metre wide blade has a robust box-type construction to cope with high loads. The torsion resistant design ensures quick and efficient distribution of all kinds of waste. The refuse screen, which forms part of the blade construction, is designed to protect the operator and machine from damage from stray waste material. Repetitive forward and reverse movements of the 46.5 tonne machine compact the waste in the cell to maximize the capacity of the site, with typically 6-8 passes being sufficient. The high ground pressure Bomag polygonal wheels are offset front and rear for optimum coverage and uniformity of compaction. A compaction width of 6 metres is achieved after only 2 passes by offsetting the second pass by one wheel width. 9
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