WCL take delivery of new reclaimer from Finlay12 April 2010

West Midlands quarry firm WCLsays it is cutting down on waste and generating revenue from surplus material, following installation of a Terex Finlay 883 Reclaimer from Finlay Central.

Simon Winner, managing director of WCL, says that the new plant is enabling his company to reprocess rejected sand from the quarry and convert it into backfill for the utilities industry.

WCL's Cranebrook Quarry, located between Lichfield and Brownhills, carries out wood waste recycling, inert waste recycling, decorative aggregate sales and landfill, along with dry screened building sand extraction.

The reclaimer plant replaces a five-year-old 883 unit, also supplied by Finlay Central, which was used to screen inert material into soils, oversized hardcore and middle grade at the site.

Winner says the new 883 is also being used as a multi-purpose machine, processing wood as well as demolition rubble, which goes on to be used in building waste reclamation.

It is also reprocessing rejected sand, working with an existing Terex Finlay 390 Hydrascreen portable screening machine, used to process dry screened building sand.

"The 390 is used to screen sand from the quarry face, with the fine sand then sold for building and the rejected sand stockpiled," explains Winner. "The new 883 reprocesses the rejected sand, making easy work of breaking down lumps of sandstone."

"It produces three grades for us. The reprocessed sand, which is passed through a 20mm slotted mesh, is being sold for use as utilities backfill, rather than being wasted. The medium grade sand is passed back through the machine several times, and the oversize is added to hard core."

Brian Tinham

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