A few photos of our new Presona LP65 baler on its way back from shot blasting and priming and soon to have a new lick of paint. The team at Presona UK plan to have this machine up and running at Ecogen’s Winchester based recycling site by the end of March.
Our Presona LP50 baler is off for it’s new life as our dedicated paper baler. It will be linked up to our Axo shredder in it’s own dedicated document shredding plant.
Our new cardboard and plastic baler being installed today. This Presona LP65 VH2 takes our total cardboard and plastic recycling capacity from 8 tonnes per hour to 22 tonnes per hour. The faster we can process, the more customers we can service and the better rates we can pay for commercial waste commodities.
This is the new bale ejection shelter being re-cladded ahead of the machinery installation. From June 2017 our new document shredding plant will enable us to shred 35 tonnes of documents per day 5 days a week.
Today’s launch of Ecogen’s first set of new curtains courtesy of AFS Haulage. Soon to be seen collecting from a business near you!
Here are a few images of work carried out so far on our new document shredding plant. Today’s tasks; installing the second Presona baler (in blue) which will be set up to operate in conjunction with the Axo paper shredder (in green).
In June Ecogen Recycling unveiled their new self-contained document shredding plant. Now cages of pre-sorted archive documents are tipped, using a rotating folk lift attachment, into the AXO-704HH shredder then the shredded paper is conveyed directly into the Presona LP50 automatic baler. This setup, designed by Presona UK, reduces manual handling and increases shredding capacity …
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For the third year running Ecogen has been awarded with the full SMAS ‘worksafe contractor’ accreditation for high standards of health and safety at work.
Due to the ever increasing volume of paper for shredding, we took advice from Stuart and Louise at The Business Health Partnership and installed a dust extraction system. The Fox F50-843 dust collection system is designed to reduce breathable particulates in the air. When used in conjunction with face masks it gives our operational staff peace of mind that …