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MORE ITALIAN STYLE? TRY DIECI TELEHANDLERS

MORE BRITISH WEATHER? ‘PLANTWORX’ HAD PLENTY

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JULY–AUGUST 2017

ITALIAN STYLE – GLOBAL The Busi Group's wide product range with 'turnkey' capability.

Bell loader survives double-shifts in

Plasterboard Recycling.

‘QUAD COOL’

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DOES IT ALL DO THE MATH, MSW DOESN’T STAND A CHANCEUNMATCHED COMPACTION23,000 lbs. of torque in a screw-type auger.

EPIC HOPPER BODY DISPLACEMENTDisplacement ranks 20% higher than any other ASL system.

ULTIMATE MANEUVERABILITYShorter wheelbase than other side loaders.

HIGHEST LIQUID CONTAINMENTLiquid tight body up to 40 inches.

UNSURPASSED LEGAL PAYMENT Highest legal payloads in the industry.

INNOVATIVE AUGER DESIGN 7 yd3 per min. hopper displacement.

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CONTENTS

4 Italian Style – Global Potential How the portfolio of Busi Group caught

Malcolm's attention.

10 Product News A Grand Prix for collecting garbage and

robots in waste management? We have the answers.

12 Dust to dust Bell loader survives double shifts in

Plasterboard Recycling. True or false? Malcolm Bates investigates …

14 Companies Index

16 Biggest ‘Plantworx’ yet With 380 exhibitors, over 12000 visitors

were attracted to this UK event – despite the weather!

20 Deciding on Dieci The Italian telehandler manufacturer is

looking for success in the composting, waste and recycling sectors.

23 Day In The Life Busy but customer-oriented CEO God-

fried Terberg of Terberg Ros Roca Group

THE RCV – A WEAPON OF

TERROR?

C ould a humble refuse collection vehicle (RCV) be used in a terrorist attack? Think about it – at typically 26 tonnes gross weight, the RCV is the ‘ideal’ vehicle to hijack and use as a battering ram against public buildings, or to attack innocent pedestrians in a busy shopping street or tourist area.

Every town and city has a fleet of RCVs. They’re so common, they don’t get a second look from passers-by – or I’d suggest, the security services. After all, an RCV is one of very few commercial vehicles that visits just about every street at least once a week. Just as important for those seeking to destabilise our peaceful everyday lives, it’s currently easy to steal. And, because most RCVs have automatic transmission, easy to drive as well.

It doesn’t really matter which part of the world you live in – terrorism is now a real threat to us all. It respects no borders and as recent atrocities in France, Germany and – more recently – the UK have demonstrated, an event in one major city can injure or kill citizens from many other countries, visiting at the time.

So what’s to be done? The first step is to recognise that those who work in our industry could be caught up in a terrorism incident. Those planning such atrocities can get plenty of advice over the Internet and are by their very nature, good at slipping under any security ‘radar’. So it’s doubly im-portant to ask how we might protect innocent staff members who might be faced with a hijack. What steps we can take to help prevent unauthorised people driving away in a 26-tonne ‘weapon’ with a potentially devastating capability?

A ‘live’ CCTV system with GPS location and driver behaviour ‘alerts’ and/or ‘panic button’ is a good start. An automatic engine shutdown system with a remote activation facility would be even better. But might staff ‘proxim-ity alarms’ or fingerprint recognition start systems actually put authorised drivers at risk of being held hostage? As an industry, we need to address these issues. Urgently.

And leaving aside the human cost, we need to make sure the budget is avail-able to retrofit existing vehicles as well – because this issue cannot wait until new replacement vehicles are in service.

Malcolm Bates, Chief Editor

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There are three brands within the Busi Group – OMB refuse collection vehicles and containers, BTE waste compactors and MEC hydraulic hooklifts and loader cranes. Together, they form a formidable ‘one stop shop’ capability. You might not have heard of the Busi Group before now. But as Malcolm Bates reports from Brescia, Italy, that should soon change ...

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B efore we get too far into the story, we need to un-derstand that the name ‘Busi’ is pronounced ‘Boo-zee’ – not ‘Biz-zee’.

So no clever headlines along the lines of ‘Busy Bees Busi’ then!

Instead we need to find another starting point – not that the Busi Group isn’t ‘busy’, you understand. Let’s start on the basis that this fam-ily-owned business has the potential to become far more prominent than it currently is. True, the Group already exports products to Spain, the UAE and several South American countries including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay, but it’s the wide spread of products over three complementary

brands that we need to look at in more detail – because that’s where the poten-tial is for further market share expan-sion and new business relationships.

The three brands – OMB, BTE and MEC – all produce specific products in their own right, but together pro-vide an impressive portfolio of prod-ucts and equipment that, until now, hasn’t been widely known to the waste and recycling industry outside Italy. That could be related to the fact that the Busi Group is still quite a young organisation – having been founded as recently as 1991. But having said that, OMB came into being in 1961 – coming into the Group in 2014 – while MEC was founded in 1966 and became part of the Group in 2005.

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explains export manager Patrik Borgatti, seen here with a waste container rave section in the

impressive OMB press shop.

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This combination of brands provides an excellent opportunity to supply com-plete ‘turnkey’ packages of collection ve-hicles, containers and other equipment to the global waste and recycling sector as all three brands really do complement each other to give a true ‘one stop shop’ ca-pability. Off hand, I can’t think of many other manufacturers that can supply everything from humble waste containers to the actual collection vehicles and bulk waste handling systems required to load or transport them. And I’m not just talk-ing about ‘waste’ in the context of refuse (garbage) either – the product lines cover recycling, foodwaste, scrap and demoli-tion waste as well.

IMPRESSIVE PRODUCT PORTFOLIOLet’s start with refuse collection vehicles (RCVs). At the 2017 ‘Ecomondo’ event at Rimini, Italy, in November, OMB will in-troduce the ‘Quick’ – a new 10 cubic me-tre ‘through-the-hopper-discharge-type’ compact RCV that has the body and hop-per built as one unit, thus eliminating leachate issues. Also on show will be the new ‘Legend’ range of high-performance rear-end loading compaction RCVs with capacities up to 23 cubic metres, suitable for chassis up to 26 tonnes gross weight, which were previewed at Ecomondo last year and are now in production.

With these new additions, OMB can now supply a complete range of rear-load-

ing RCVs starting at the open-bodied ‘Viper’ satellite units (at 5 and 7 cubic me-tres capacity) and the 5, 7, 8 and 10 cubic metre capacity ‘T-Rex’ range of covered compact satellite units – which feature an internal top-hung compactor plate – right up to fullsize compaction machines.

But OMB also manufactures a range of side-loading compaction RCVs suitable for both two and three-axle chassis – as well as a demountable waste collection and transfer system (the ‘CWS B2’) which enables loaded side-loader bodies to be demounted and replaced with empty units working in conjunction with a hooklift truck/trailer combination. Body capacities from 14 and 16 cubic metres (on two axles) and up to 27 cubic metres on three axles can be catered for. Not big enough? There’s also a 30 cubic metres side loader for four-axle chassis.

UP TO SPEEDAs I was able to discover firsthand the latest OMB units feature easy-to-use, fully-auto-matic cycle loading with ‘cross-hair’ CCTV container location and a clean-action tele-scopic arm to reach containers not located close to the kerbside. The ‘power-on-de-mand’ function should help reduce fuel costs further – this speeds up the packer plate cycle, providing extra power only when needed. I hadn’t operated a sideloader for some while, but would have happily started work the next morning confident that the

“ALL THREE BRANDS

REALLY DO COMPLEMENT

EACH OTHER TO GIVE A

TRUE ‘ONE STOP SHOP’

CAPABILITY.”

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OMB manufacturers metal waste containers on a moving produc-tion line at the Brescia plant.

Impressive jigs and press tools are required to ensure top quality and production accuracy.

1. OMB has experience of building natural gas fuelled RCVs and is now also building Iveco-based ‘zero-emis-sions’ units for inner city zone working. 2. The range starts with compact rear-end loading ‘Satellite’ vehicles like this unit based on a Mitsubishi- Fuso chassis.3. It also includes rear end loading RCVs up to 23 cu-bic metres capacity. The new ‘Legend’ models will be officially launched at ‘Ecomondo’ in November.

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OMB control system would soon help get me up to speed.

Talking of hooklifts, the MEC brand includes four ‘series’ of hooklift (Ro/Ro) units from 3 tonnes capacity right up to 35 tonnes. The articulat-ed-arm ‘SCA Series’ (from 3.5 up to 26 tonnes), the low-profile telescopic arm ‘KT Series’ (up to 35tonnes), the ‘KT FBS Series’ with telescopic, artic-ulated arm and self-tilting facility (up to 35 tonnes), the ‘SC Series’ with tele-scopic arm and rear container locking and the ‘SCK Series’ with hydraulic arm extension and articulation de-signed to load containers of unstable site debris and sludge. That’s a pretty comprehensive range.

A ONE STOP SHOPThat’s not all. MEC also produces hy-draulic lorry loading cranes. Two series are available – the ‘S-Series’ and the folding ‘Z-Series’ – the latter designed specifically for waste handling applica-tions where the crane has the dual role of crushing the load into a container body, or handling heavy loads such as scrap metal. Next, we get to the BTE range of hooklift-demountable waste compactors. With three series (‘CMP’, ‘CMPU’ and ‘CMPV’) and over forty different models in the range, there is a BTE compactor for just about every ap-plication – even on sites with no power supply. BTE has pioneered static on-site compactors powered by solar energy ob-tained from solar panels on the roof of the unit, making them entirely self-con-tained. The units feature a 3 kW 48-volt electric motor and lithium-ion batteries and were initially tested in Dubai.

This takes us to the final link in the product chain – waste and recyclable materials bins and containers. OMB specialises in metal bins and contain-ers – although plastics materials can be supplied through partners if re-

quired. The range includes containers suitable for OMB side-loaders and rear end loading RCVs, but an equally wide range of roll-on/roll-off contain-ers suitable for scrap, waste or recy-clable materials applications is also manufactured by Busi Group sister company, BTE – including contain-ers with GPS data tracking exchange, vandal-proof/resident-only access and selective waste-stream capability.

FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCETo get a closer look, I recently visited the OMB plant at Brescia where both RCV production (and chassis mount-ing) and the manufacture of metal waste bins and containers for rear end and side-loading applications takes place. The containers are produced on a moving production line and feature pressings made on site. The level of in-vestment is impressive with both mod-ern computer-controlled presses and robot welding ensuring a high qual-ity product with a long service life. I asked export manager Patrik Borgatti about that – the secret, he tells me, is the profile of the pressing that forms the ‘rave’ at the top of the container. “This is what gives our containers their strength,” he informs me. But there’s more to it that that – high standards

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Next door to the container production fa-cility is the refuse collection vehicle (RCV) production line. Here both OMB sideload-ers – in foreground – and rear end loaders

are assembled and chassis-mounted.

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FACTS

Busi Group:CEO: Mirko Busifounded: 1991Headquarter: Brescia, Italy

A Bright Future. Group CEO Mirko Busi (centre) with after-sales man-ager Massimo Zanfabro (right) and export manager Patrik Borgatti.

Ready to go. This completed Mercedes Benz ‘Antos’-based RCV is ready for delivery to Italian environmental services contractor Tekra.


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in container design is also helping expand the business horizons of the Group. For example certain OMB containers are also marketed by the UK-based Egbert Taylor Group on a global basis. So could such ‘partner-ships’ include other products from the Busi Group, like completed vehi-cles for example? To get a clearer un-derstanding of the possibilities, I met up with Mirko Busi, the Group CEO. Yes, he confirmed, the Busi Group is looking to expand further outside of the Italian home market as the con-tinuing economic situation in Italy, although better, is still not buoyant. Clearly such factors – as well as lim-ited further growth potential in the fiercely competitive home market – could hold back investment in new models without further expansion. And the Busi Group wants to expand.

Well established relationships in Spain, the Middle East and South America illustrate that the Busi Group can work well with local partners, so Mirko Busi and Patrik Borgatti see no reason why this policy cannot be ex-tended more widely. “We are equally able to work with local distributors, or end users such as municipalities, contractors, or rental companies di-

rect,” Patrik Borgatti explains.

“Buying a range of equipment from one source can have obvious opera-tional benefits, makes finance easier and offers potential savings due to an economy of scale,” he points out.

A BUSI FUTURE?So how does the future look? It looks pretty good from here in Brescia. Mirko Busi has one more ace up his sleeve. Being a privately-owned business, the Group can spot gaps in the market and innovate more quickly than many larger competitors. The solar-powered waste compactors are one excellent ex-

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1. OMB side-loading system features telescopic boom to enable containers some distance from the kerb to be lifted. 2. Telescopic section is retracted automatically before lifting process begins.3. Once container ‘cross-hairs’ have been lined-up on CCTV camera by driver, latest OMB sideloaders feature fast, ‘one action’ control sequence.4. Colour-coded key fobs enable only designated containers – and specific waste streams – to be collected, eliminating contamination and possible fraud.


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ample. Also, OMB has already delivered a number of nat-ural gas-powered Iveco-based RCVs and is now working on a brand new compact ‘zero emissions’ lithium-ion bat-tery-powered compact refuse collection vehicle designed for inner-city zone operations, as you read this. Based on a modified Iveco chassis, it is hoped that a trial vehicle will be ready for demonstration shortly. You read it here [email protected]

www.busigroup.it

GRAND PRIX D’GARBAGE?

Just when you think you’ve heard it all – who would have thought that after a hard week’s work, refuse

collection crews from across the UK would be interested in competing against each other in a competition to find the fastest bin collection crew in the coun-try? At the weekend!But that’s exactly what hap-pened back in June at the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare. Organised by leading RCV refurbishment, contract hire and rental spe-cialist, Refuse Vehicle Solutions, ‘The National Refuse Vehicle Championships’ was held to find the fastest crew in the UK. The winning team came from Aylesbury Vale District Council

and won against stiff compe-tition from a number of other teams from councils (com-munes) and commercial waste contractors.The teams battled against the clock – and each other – us-ing a pair of Mercedes ‘Econic’ RCVs. But it wasn’t just about ‘speed’ – smooth operation of the binlifters and team ‘tactics’ played a part.The event was well attended by visitors, holiday makers and the family and friends of the crews - and guess what? It now looks like being an annual event. But could it become an interna-tional event? Maybe ...

More info from [email protected]

PRODUCT NEWS

GET READY TO SHRED A new shredder designed to process pallets, packaging and plastics is due to be launched next month. The new ‘QR-Se-ries’ is being launched by Austria-based Untha Shredding Technology to provide recyclers with a flexible shredder capable of handling a wide range of waste streams. Simple low maintenance pusher technology combined with simple touch-screen controls and remote diagnostics are designed to give a long service life with low running costs. Untha has also been having considerable success with a fully compliant hard drive shredder. “This is fast becoming one of our biggest selling machines partly because it satisfies our customers demands in meeting legislative requirements in respect of data destruction standards, but also because it produces a marketable homogeneous fraction,” explains Untha director Marcus Brew. More info: www.untha.com

SAFETY DOWN UNDER Safety systems specialist Vision Tech-niques – supplier of ‘VT Brakesafe’ and ‘VT Stopsafe’ systems designed to prevent vehicle run-aways and provide a controlled emergency stop capability for refuse collection vehicles, together with live CCTV and fleet management packages – is looking for new partners in developing global markets. Sales director Steve Hurd has recently returned from a fact-finding tour of Australia. He reports that there is considerable interest in the fitting of additional safety systems to ensure the safety of both pe-destrians and cyclists around vehicles working in an urban environment, but also systems that are designed to protect drivers and crews from abuse – and false insurance claims. “The problems facing operators in the Southern Hemi-sphere are very much the same as those faced by operators in the UK and Europe,” he explains. Vision Techniques is now building a network of distributors and fitting agents in the Pacific Rim market. Interested? Contact Steve Hurd: [email protected]

IT’S A GAS What is claimed to be the first genuine ‘dual fuel’ diesel/hydrogen refuse collection vehicles (RCVs) have gone into service with Fife Council in Scotland, UK. The eight new RCVs are based on Mercedes Benz ‘Econic’ 26-tonne gross weight chassis, with Farid compaction bodies, Terberg binlifters and Allison 300 Series automatic gearboxes. The dual fuel tech-nology – from Ulemco – enables hydrogen to be injected into the engine air intake. This is then mixed with the normal diesel fuel. The hydrogen is carried in 350-bar pressurised tanks fitted to the chassis. The system can be fitted to new

vehicles or retrofit-ted, as in this case, to extend the vehicle’s operational life, meet new emissions stan-dards and reduce emissions in busy urban areas.


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TOPPICKS & NEWS

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RENOVA TEAMS UP WITH ... A ROBOT? Leading Swedish waste management contractor Renova is currently testing and evaluating whether automated vehicles can contribute to safer, more efficient refuse and recycling collections. The automated systems are, in principle, the same as those already fitted to the Volvo autonomous truck operating in the Kristineberg Mine in northern Sweden since 2016. The new Volvo RCV on trial with Renova continuously monitors its surround-ings and stops if an object suddenly appears in its path. It has the capability to ‘learn’ each collection round – after an initial, manually driven run – by mapping the route by a system of sensors and GPS navigation. The next time the truck undertakes the same round, it automatically stops next to where each bin is located.

TEREX TEAMS UP WITH PORTER GROUP To gain a stronger foothold in Australia and New Zealand, Terex Trucks has teamed up with the Porter Group to act as distributor for the range of Terex ADTs. The headquarters of the organisation is at Hamilton, South Island, New Zealand. The ‘Gen-eration 10’ TA400 and TA300 ADTs have potential applications in both construction, mining and re- clamation – as well as waste disposal and of course the rental market. “Porter Equipment is delighted to represent Terex Trucks throughout Australia and New Zealand,” says Darren Ralph, general sales manager at Porter Group. “Terex has a strong pedigree in the design and manufacture of robust products, while the Porter Group has a distribution network of over 40 branches in Oceania that dates back over 70 years. It’s a great partnership for growth.” Porter Group also has bases in California, USA and Papua New Guinea as well as in Australia.

www.terextrucks.com

CRANE CRAZY IN JAPAN The Hiab division of Cargotec has received a substantial order for lorry loader cranes from Japan. The order comes from Japanese trading company FutureBud International and the order for 40 Hiab ‘XS0 88CLX’ manually-controlled knuckle-boom cranes is part of a United Nations-related project to assist developing countries. The cranes – with a lifting capacity of 8.2 tonnes/metre – will be supplied by Cargotec Japan and mounted on Fuso truck chassis for operation in Africa. [email protected]

HIAB: Crane

CAPELOTTO: Waste Tanker

CAPPELLOTTO TEAMS UP WITH NTM Leading Italian manufacturer of liquid waste tankers – Cappellotto, based in Gaiarine – has announced a new agreement with Finland-based manufacturer of solid waste col-lection vehicles NTM (Narpes Tra & Metall). Cappellotto manufactures a wide range of vacuum tankers, jetters – and significantly, heavy duty ‘vacuum excavators’ designed for site clearance. The agreement will see Italian-built Cappellotto products marketed in the UK and Irish markets by NTM sister company NTM UK. An upbeat Nigel Povey has been appointed as business development manager to oversee the project. “There are some significant new additions coming to the Cappellotto range. It’s a very exciting project,” he explains. [email protected]

CHANGES AT CAT The Caterpillar Corporation has announced that three vice presidents are to retire from the company. They are Paolo Fellin, Greg Folley and George Taylor. Organisational changes will take place alongside the appointment of replacement VPs.

CHANGES AT TOMRA Fabrizio Radice will assume the lead role in sales and marketing at Tomra Recycling, reporting to senior vice president Tom Eng. “I’m so excited in taking on this important international challenge and am proud to be joining the market leader in the recycling equipment business,” he explained. Norway-based Tomra designs and manufactures sensor-based (infrared) sorting technologies for the waste and recycling industry worldwide. So far, over 4,900 systems are in service in over 50 countries. www.tomra.com/recycling

VOLVO: RCV


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DUST TO DUSTIt’s a fact – machines working in waste and recycling don’t tend to live long lives thanks to an abrasive cocktail of dust, moisture and short loading cycles. Transferring operations inside increases the likelihood of an early grave. But the toughest operation of all? How about plasterboard recycling? Malcolm Bates investigates ...


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T oday I’m visiting a major plasterboard recycling fa-cility in the UK – not that you’d think the unit on an industrial park in the

rural county of Lincolnshire would be the centre of anything other than agri-culture, perhaps. But close by is the for-mer steelmaking town of Scunthorpe. And good motorway connections make this part of the UK an ideal location for food processing, shipping and other distribution-related businesses. After years of decline, the area is busy once

more.As I pull into the carpark, there

is still no clue as to what kind of operation is based here. Have I got the right place? Is my Satnav play-

ing a game? I’m here to meet Ashley Cooper who is a consultant to Northern Plasterboard Recycling and I suddenly realise that I know very little about the whole process of recycling this material – other than that I’m sure it has the po-tential to make a great deal of dust and clog-up the air filter and cooling system of any machine, faster than you can read this paragraph.

Ashley gives me some background. He tells me that unless stringent meas-ures are adhered to, the dust from the used plasterboard that is trucked into the site from all over the UK – as far away as Scotland, in fact – has the potential to wreck everything including the office phones, watches, the two-way radios... And the telehandlers and loading shov-els working on site as well. But any re-sulting unexpected machine downtime

could spell disaster, as Ashley explains ...

After several other brands of machine failed in service as a result of overheating, Northern Plaster-board Recycling is now operating a Bell articulated wheeled loader with ‘Quad-Cool’.


“Northern Plasterboard Recycling works on a two-shift system and has contracts with regular clients who send us timed shipments,” Ashley explains. The scrap plasterboard cannot be stored out in the open for obvious reasons – it creates a fine dust even in dry, still conditions and would create an envi-ronmental disaster if it ever got wet. So the trucks have to be given immediate access to the tipping floor as soon as they arrive. “Any machine failure would soon result in that material backing-up and that would interrupt the entire re-cycling process,” he adds. That process results in the gypsum being extracted and cleaned of the contaminating pa-per used to form the sheets. While some material is re-used in the making of new plasterboard, most of the recycled mate-rial is used in agriculture. It puts calcium back into the soil to break up the heavy clay in a ratio of around 20 tonnes a hectare. Considering that freshly mined gypsum is around 70 Euros a tonne and the recycled material is almost free, this is clearly one aspect of recycling that has considerable commercial potential. Provided, that is, the whole process runs smoothly ...

SUITED & BOOTEDHaving had a briefing from Ashley – and a welcome early morning coffee – I’ve now been suitably ‘suited and booted’ to enable me to enter the plant. I was prepared for the inside of the plant to be dusty, but it was only when trying to focus my camera on the machines work-ing inside, that I realised just how much the plasterboard dust hangs in the air. I’ve already seen the result of what long-term exposure can do – around the back of the plant, a wheeled loader and tele-handler are parked-up, having failed in service. So I was keen to see what ma-chines were still left working.

Alongside a couple of JCB and Manitou telehandlers, the key front-line machine is a Bell L1806E wheeled loader. It is used to stockpile and load outgoing trucks with processed ma-terial. “It’s been at work now for four

months,” Ashley confirms, “We’ve re-cently upgraded it by fitting a larger 4.3 cubic metre capacity Vibejern bucket,” he adds. Remembering what he said earlier, I’m keen to see how well the Bell has stood the pressure of working inside, in an environment where the air is both hot and dusty. It is a condition of the local planning laws that no part of the loading or unloading process can take place outside, so the Bell is work-ing inside all day, every day. The only time it gets driven outside is to refuel and change drivers at each shift change. It’s clearly been well-used, but is still in good condition.

A COOL CONCEPTI’m especially keen to see how well the much publicised Bell ‘Quad-Cool’ sys-tem has stood up to the conditions. The concept sounds logical enough – the radiator is fed with cooling air which is expelled from within a sealed bulkhead between it and the John Deere diesel engine. The theory is that this prevents the power unit being covered in dust. The auto-reversible fan is there to pre-vent build-up of debris on the radiator core and ... Well, that’s impressive – after

Specification

BELL ‘L1806E’ ARTIC LOADING SHOVEL

Rated power 173 kW/232 hp

Bucket capacity 3.6 m3 (standard)

Operating weight 18,847 kg

Interesting details ‘Quad-Cool’ cooling system

Auto-reverse fan/wide core radiator

Heavy duty axles

On-board weighing system

Hydraulic ride control

Reversing radar and alarm

Another shift completed, there’s just time to refuel before the driver of the next shift takes over.

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With the doors closed, it won't see day-light – or cool fresh air – again until the

next shift change.

It’s seen some action, but the L1806E cab is still a nice place to work, with excellent vision and an efficient aircon system.

Turbo diesel John Deere power unit has light covering of dust, but is still clean and free from oil leaks.

The only time the Bell is driven outside is when it’s time to

change shifts or refuel.

Abrasive dust can cause havoc to hydraulic seals on main articulation

pivot. The Bell is still trouble-free.

A&Y Equipment 22Allison 10Avant 17Bell 12, 13Cappellotto 11Cargotec 11Case 18Caterpillar Cooperation 11, 21, 22Construction Equipment Assoc. 18Culford Waste 20Dennis Eagle 23

Dieci 20EFE 19Farid 10Flintec 15Fuso 11Hiab 11Hitachi 22Hyundai 18, 19JCB 12, 18, 21, 22John Deere 12Kolbelco 18, 19

Komatsu 18Ladybird Cranes 19Liebherr 22LiuGong 19Manitou and Merlo 21, 22Molson Group 18, 19Northern Plasterboard Recycling 12NTM 11O'Donovan Waste 19PVI 23Red Rhino Crushers 18

Refuse Vehicle Solutions 10Renault Trucks 23Renova 11Terberg Ros Roca 23Sennebogen 18, 19Suffolk Agri-Centre 21Terex Trucks 11, 18Tomra 11Ulemco 10Volvo 11, 23Zappshelter 18

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more than 7000 engine hours (the ma-chine was previously an ex-demo unit) in one of the most hostile environments that any machine can be expected to work in, both the radiator core and the power unit are remarkably clean. A lack of any engine or hydraulic oil leaks also suggests the various seals and gaskets are holding up well, too. I look at the main machine articulation pivot. It's also clean and dry.

The bottom line? Any machine that can work reliably in plasterboard recy-cling should find general waste and re-cycling operations a walk in the park. Bell Equipment might not have the high profile of some of the brands sup-plying machines to our industry, but if

engine cooling issues have been causing you concerns, then the Bell ‘Quad-Cool’ system might be worth a closer look.

But wait, there’s something else to consider – the good condition of the Bell wasn’t because the team at Northern Plasterboard Recycling cleaned the machine specially for me to photograph it. “We thought you were coming next week,” Ashley Cooper had quizzed earlier, when I arrived. It turns out there was a slight ‘breakdown in communications’ be-tween the Public Relations people at Bell in the UK and the team at Northern Plasterboard Recycling.

But never mind – because it was the only breakdown of the day.

Staying cool. Radiator and power unit are separated by fixed bulkhead. Wide core radiator, side screens and auto-re-verse fan have prevented dust clogging.

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FT-30MOn-board Weighing Indicator

+ Touch screen operation with high resolution.

+ Din slot or dash mount.

+ Two overload alarm set-points.

+ On-screen customer identification.

+ Print & record weights per customer ID and/or per delivery/collection.

+ Two channel mV input

+ Weigh in Kg or Lbs.

+ Wide range of load cells and accessories

+ VCA certified

+44 (0) 33 00 293 054 www.flintec.com/uk/ft30m

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BIGGEST ‘PLANTWORX’ YET

After a wet start on the first day, the 2017 Plantworx event ended-up

attracting over 10,000 visitors.

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O n the face of it, hold-ing an open air plant and machinery exhi-bition in the UK is a risky business. Even

in June, the weather can change from bright summer sunshine to very early autumn showers. But to hold such an event on a former war-time airbase? There’s a clue here – what’s the one thing you need to get an aircraft into the air? ‘Plenty of wind’ probably comes high on the list. Airfields can be windy places.

Scroll it all together? On the first day of what was billed as the larg-

est three day ‘Plantworx’ event ever, there was wind and rain – which quickly turned the grassed areas into a sea of mud. It was unseasona-bly cold as well – just to doubly test the resolve of visitors and exhibitors alike. But then … As most potential customers of hydraulic plant and machinery work outside in ‘the el-ements’ anyway, maybe that wasn’t the end of the world?

The plus side is of course that having an open air venue well away from any housing or offices means that the exhibitors could make as much noise – and mess – as they

With over 380 exhibitors attracting 12,000 visitors, the bi-annual open air ‘Plantworx’ event at Bruntingthorpe UK has an increasing international status. Although aimed at the construction industry, waste and recycling equipment is increasingly part of the event as Malcolm Bates, reports.

GREEN REVOLUTION? The latest new model from Finland-based Avant is the zero-emissions ‘e5’ compact telescopic boom artic wheeled loader. It’s the next model up from the ‘e3’ launched a couple of years ago and brings true zero-emissions battery power to waste and recycled materials handling. Recharge time is just five hours, giving up to four hours constant working per shift. Machine weight is 1590 kg, maximum lift capacity 900 kgs at full boom outreach. More info from www.avant.co.uk


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liked. And while the scale and scope of ‘live’ demonstrations is limited by health & safety concerns, it’s still far more useful to see a machine work-ing outside than posed on a carpet on some indoor stand in an exhibi-tion hall, isn’t it?

Although aimed squarely at the construction industry and infra-structure maintenance sectors, Plantworx has seen a growing trend towards featuring waste and recy-cling equipment as well. There are several ‘crossover’ areas of course such as trommels and screens, load-ing shovel buckets, Q-hitch systems and ancillary equipment such as CCTV, engine management and op-erator safety systems. Several lead-ing brands such as Case, Komatsu and JCB had dedicated waste and recycling machines on show, while a leading UK-based ‘multi-brand’ dis-

tributor, the Molson Group, featured a display that underlined a clever ‘one stop shop’ strategy by being able to supply Hyundai, Kolbelco and Sennebogen machines – and Terex chippers, shredders and trommel screens – from the same source.

Significantly, having started as a uniquely UK-orientated event – all be it one that has always had a good level of support from manufacturers located outside the UK – such is the scale of Plantworx that it now de-serves a place on your international listing of events worth a visit. But just a small tip – if you plan on visit-ing next time, be sure to pack a rain-proof jacket and boots. Just in case!

The next Plantworx event is scheduled for 2019. The event is supported by the Construction Equipment Association. www.plantworx.co.uk

ON HOME TURF? The recently-launched JCB ‘Hydradig’ high-speed wheeled excavator was hard at work in the muddy conditions, while the also newly announced ‘Teleskid’ – a compact telescopic-boom skidsteer loader was also on display. www.jcb.co.uk

Alongside launch of new G-Series artic wheeled loaders, the Case stand featured a waste-spec

CX290D MH tracked materials handler with raised cab. Operating weight is 32000 kg.

Komatsu was one of several leading equipment brands to feature waste and recycling machines at Plantworx.

This WA380 artic wheeled loader featured the full waste industry specification and toe-tip bucket.

Cover story! The innovative ‘Zappshelter’ utilises shipping containers as secure wall units – the roof sections clamping onto container twistlock holes. A number of sizes and span options up to 17 metres are available. The covers are made from UV-resistant woven polymer. www.zappshelter.com

TAKING CARE. Vision Techniques is a leading UK supplier of fleet management and vehicle safety systems - including driver alerts and, as here, cyclist warning of vehicle blindspots when overtaking. Vision Techniques is also looking at remote emergency stop systems to pre-vent theft and hijacking. www.vision-techniques.com

A crushing argument? UK-based Red Rhino Crushers has recently launched this compact

‘Mini Crusher’ on a purpose-built fast tow trailer chassis. It is designed to be transportable between smaller remote sites to recycle smaller

tonnages of DIY waste. www.redrhinocrushers.com


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Your new partner in transportation…

‘Innovation’ wasn’t restricted to the

machinery – some visitors without

suitable footwear found other ways of

getting around!

Chinese manufacturer LiuGong has already

carved out a niche in the UK construction equip-ment market – and has also sold artic wheeled

loaders to leading waste recycling contractors such

as O’Donovan Waste. Alongside this 877H, the

UK LuiGong importer had a 924E tracked excavator on display for waste and

recycling equipment rental specialist, ‘Tippers-

R-Us’.

ONE STOP SHOP. The Molson Group distributes Sennebogen, Hyundai and Kolbelco brands in the UK and has been successful in putting together com-plete ‘turnkey’ machine packages for waste and recycling operators from a single source. This Hyundai HW160 ‘wheely’ has considerable potential in waste handling.

SMALL WONDER. Manufactured in Italy, the ‘Gapo’ is a remote-controlled (by lorry

loader crane-style hand set) diesel-powered ‘spotter’ designed originally to locate site cranes onto restricted sites. But it is also

ideal for moving and switching laden hooklift containers in waste facilities - and with a second axle with fifth wheel conver-tor, semi-trailers up to 44 tonnes gross as well. It can turn within

its own length. It is seen here on the stand of UK distributor Ladybird Cranes. www.ladybirdcranesales.co.uk


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W here shall we start? Perhaps the first decision any oper-ator has to make when looking to

purchase a new machine in the com-posting, waste and recycling sectors is whether to select a single brand with a product range wide enough to meet every requirement, or select each type of machine on its merits, whatever the brand. The first option should have benefits in terms of pricing and after-sales service, as the larger brands should have better dealer and spare parts cover – plus purchasing several different ma-chines from a single dealership should demand a bit more respect. But if all that is true, then how should we view the performance of the specialist manu-facturer, with just a single product line?

In response, the specialist manufac-turer will make the case that technical, sales and service staff will be more fo-cused and that vital company resources like R&D will not be spread more thinly over several different product lines that have little more in common than the fact that they all feature a diesel engine, a cab and lots of hydraulics.

If only the argument stopped there, the purchase decision might be easier than it actually is. In the current indus-

trial climate, smaller, specialist manu-facturers are finding it ever more diffi-cult to recruit and retain local dealers of the right calibre, as the larger multi-national brands exert more power over their dealers – including what other brands of machine they are able to sell. What are the options, then? Does it mean that in the long term, the spe-cialist manufacturers are destined to work with smaller, less well-equipped dealers with lower levels of capability? Thankfully, that doesn’t look like the case from where I’m standing, because when it comes to machines operating in composting, waste and recycling, the dealer cover for any machine has to be first class, every time.

My location is the yard of a busy commercial waste and recycling com-pany, based in rural East Anglia, in the UK. It’s a long way from the impressive, modern Dieci factory in Montecchio Emilia, Italy – and you might think, due to Culford Waste being located in the heart of an agricultural area, a long way from the nearest Dieci dealer as well. But in fact, after a previous less-than-successful attempt to sell the yellow Dieci telehandlers into wider waste and recycling applications some years ago, it looks like lessons have been learned. Things have changed.

DECIDING ON DIECI?

Having gained sales success in construction and agricultural sectors, Italian telehandler

manufacturer Dieci is now looking for success in the composting, waste and recycling sectors.

Malcolm Bates visits an operator using Dieci telehandlers as frontline machines in the UK.

Culford Waste runs a fleet of over twenty skips trucks and hooklifts and two Dieci tele-handlers: a larger model 40.7 (image 1) and this smaller model 32.7 (image 2).

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“THE BEST MACHINE I’VE DRIVEN.”

Andy Seeleymachine operator


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BUILDING ON SUCCESSHaving previously relied on an inde-pendent importer to cover the UK and Ireland – from Northern Ireland – Dieci has more recently set up a facto-ry-owned operation in the UK to co-or-dinate and restructure dealer cover. At the same time, Dieci telehandlers con-tinued to sell well in the UK agricultural sector – even in the face of tough com-petition from both the big multi-ma-chine brands (like JCB and Cat) and those from specialists such as Merlo and Manitou. Part of this continuing success has been down to building a network of smaller, hard working deal-ers like Suffolk Agri-Centre, located just a few miles from Culford Waste, at Bury St. Edmunds.

The rural economy is under threat in many national markets, as the super-markets push for ever more advanta-geous (to them) deals. So diversification could be the answer to enable employ-ment to be retained to enable local com-munities to continue to prosper. This is certainly the case in the UK and the Culford Waste operation is an excellent example of diversification in action. Still based on a working farm, Culford Waste operates a fleet of twenty mostly DAF-based skip trucks – which straight away makes the company a major em-ployer in this rural county. As company director Graeme Spittal explains, the company specialises in collecting build-er’s demolition, household clearance, DIY and light industrial waste, sells re-

1. A tight turning circle and good visibility are important when working inside.2. But the 40.7 is also used outside to stockpile woodwaste

Graeme Spittal, managing director of Culford Waste.


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cycled building mate-rials and finds markets for woodwaste, paper and plastics. While a couple of Hitachi 360 excavators are used to feed the shredders and trommel screens, it’s the pair of Dieci tele-handlers that clear the undercover waste recep-tion area ready for the next skiptruck and en-sure empty skips out in the yard are stacked and sorted ready for use.

SIMPLY THE BEST?The fact that Culford Waste is based on a farm, just a few kilometers from the supplying dealer might help ex-plain continued allegiance to the Dieci brand, but I discovered that while the two Diecis were in use as frontline waste handling machines, a competitive ma-chine from a major global brand was being used on less arduous agricul-tural duties. So how come? The full time operator of the Dieci model 40.7, Andy Seeley, helped provide the answer: This 4-tonne capacity telehandler (with 7 metres lift) now has 6000 hours on the clock and was purchased after the excellent service given by the smaller 32.7 machine. It’s still in good condi-tion – even after use in such a tough environment. So what’s the verdict from an operator who spends all day on the machine? “It’s the best machine I’ve driven,” he explains.

TAKING A GLOBAL VIEWBased on that backdrop of solid per-

formance, Dieci UK is upping its game. While telehandlers remain the key prod-uct line, complementary products like the new ‘Agri Pivot’ compact wheeled loaders have helped strengthen the lo-cal dealer’s offer. Meanwhile, back at the factory, new production processes have helped improve product quality, increase production efficiency and sim-plify spares stocking – useful as, at last count, the Dieci range covers a total of 143 different models! All this helps put Dieci in a stronger position to tackle other global markets – so far, outside Italy, the company has subsidiary com-panies in Germany, France, the UK and Russia – as well as a network of dealers in the USA, Canada, Central and South America, Turkey, the Middle East, South Africa and Australia.

And there’s more good news – rather than relying on dealer-fitted extras, new “Waste Spec” machines with a pack-age of modifications have been added to the factory-built model line-up. In the UK, a new specialist dealer – A&Y Equipment – has been appointed to cover ‘industrial’ applications such as composting, waste and recycling – rec-ognising that many waste sector busi-nesses are managed on a national, or re-gional basis. This could be a template in other national markets, suggests Robert Brown, managing director of Stratford-upon-Avon-based A&Y Equipment. “It’s early days at the moment, but Dieci has recognised that machines working in composting, waste and recycling sectors need industry-specific features in order to continue to perform reliably in a hot, dusty environment, with short loading cycles,” he adds.

CONCLUSIONDieci has got some formidable compe-tition – both from the likes of Liebherr, Cat and JCB at one end of the market and Manitou and Merlo at the other. But recognising that machines working in composting, waste and recycling need industry-specific features – and special-ised dealers – makes the Dieci brand one to watch.

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GODFRIED TERBERG – CEO, TERBERG ROS ROCA GROUPGodfried is a busy man – aside from looking after the parent Terberg company with interests in dock handling as well as binlifters and own-brand waste handling vehicles and equipment, following the ‘merger’ with the Spanish Ros Roca brand, he has also become directly involved with UK-based Dennis Eagle as well. So is it possible for you to get through a single day without looking at bin wagons, Godfried?

For someone who could be at Terberg HQ in Benshop, The Netherlands, one day, Spain

the next, or Warwick, UK, the day after that, Godfried Terberg is look-ing remarkably free from stress. Our meeting is taking place early – at 8 am at the Dennis Eagle plant in Warwick – because in a couple of hours, he is due to fly out to France for a meeting at Renault Trucks to discuss further co-operation in a project that already involves Dennis Eagle building die-sel-powered low-entry cab refuse col-lection vehicle chassis (RCV) on behalf of Renault and “Glider Units” which form the basis for the electric PVI ‘ze-ro-emissions’ RCV.

So, your day is mostly spent in meet-ings with managers and executives then, is it, Godfried? “No, not at all. It’s im-portant to remember that the Terberg Group is still a family-owned business and we take great pride in staying in close contact with our employees,” he explains. Surely that’s got a whole lot more difficult since the merger with Ros Roca doubled the payroll to some-thing like 2000 people? “It’s now nearer 2300”, Godfried corrects me.

OK then, we have a considerable amount of travel, lots of meetings with departmental managers and executives, suppliers and other partners, time-out to talk with employees and ... Anything

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else? “The Terberg Group carries my family’s name, so if I can't find the time to talk directly to our custom-ers as well, that would be a very poor situation,” Godfried points out. “The Terberg Group is a specialised busi-ness, so we don’t want, or need, added layers between us and our customers,” he suggests. This is, he confirms, a ‘people business’.

Over an early morning coffee, Godfried gives me an insight into how what was once a local rural black-smith’s shop founded in 1869, got a welcome boost fixing ex-American Army trucks left behind in the trans-port equipment-starved Netherlands in 1945. By 1967, Terberg was building own-brand trucks and more recently has become a major global manufac-turer of ‘dock spotters’ and forklift trucks – as well as hydraulic binlifters, recycling units – and more recently, an impressive range of waste and recy-cling equipment. Building “specials” in co-operation with larger manufactur-ers – such as Volvo – has given Terberg access to the global market.

Following his graduation as an engineer, Godfried joined the family firm in 1990. I’m still trying to work out how he can be so busy, yet so re-laxed, but coffee drunk, my time is running out – Godfried has a plane to catch.

Godfried Terberg Terberg Ros Roca Group

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