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A multi-disciplined family business, founded 30 years ago by Joe Lee, L &
B Haulage and Civil Engineering, has developed and expanded to cover numerous
interests in groundworks, civil engineering, construction and allied activities,
including haulage, demolition, waste management, recycling, crushing, screening
and skip hire.
L & B Haulage processes an almost continuous supply of building and construction
waste brought to the site on their own tipper trucks and skips, as well as via
other transport companies, from the greater London area. The trucks and skip
lorries tip waste into the covered stockpiling area and, from there, one of
L & B’s hydraulic excavators with grab loads the 725 Trommel’s large capacity
hopper.
The mixed waste is tromelled and screen separated by the Powerscreen machine
and conveyed through a picking station for final sorting and thence into various
bins. Fines, rubble, timber, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, board and paper
all fall into separate concrete bays beneath the conveyor line. The trommel
and picking station has been installed at high level in a specially designed
and built covered structure which not only allows all-weather operation, but
also reduces noise and dust levels, the latter being reduced further by dust
suppression systems.
Materials reused
After processing and separating, around 85% of the total materials is reused.
The timber is fragmentised for chipboard manufacture; cardboard and paper is
baled and sold on to paper processors for pulp; alloys and ferrous metals go
on to the metal recycling yards; and rubble is crushed, screened and cleaned
for use on temporary haul road construction.
The Powerscreen 725 Trommel in one of many models in the company’s wide range.
The Powerscreen trommel programme is designed and built for the screening and
stockpiling of extracted aggregates, debris and waste products from construction
and demolition, wood and green waste, industrial and municipal waste, topsoil
and recyclable materials.
The 31.60m² large area rotating cylindrical screen drum measures 1.8 metres
diameter x 4.57 metres length and has variable control for maximum efficiency
and adaptability for the range of materials that can be processed.
A range of mesh sizes is available, depending on the customer’s requirements
and the materials to be screened. All Powerscreen trammols are equipped with
machined rolled surfaces for support wheels to eliminate vibration. The hopper
has a 7m³ capacity with hopper extension. The feed conveyor has a three-ply continuous
belt of 1,050mm width and has variable speed control. The two-ply 1,050mm wide
collection conveyor, with belt scraper, feeds the front conveyor, which has
a 900mm wide two-ply chevron belt.
Power is electrical on L & B’s model, although the standard power sources
are usually Deutz diesel engines’ and all trommel hydraulics are protected by
an automatic shut-down system. A conveniently located control panel provides
fingertip management of all machine functions.
Powerscreen trommels are available variously in static configuration, wheeled
or as fully mobile crawler-mounted versions.
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