£300,000 waste deal booster

WASTE management machinery designer and manufacturer Whitham Mills has sold newly developed kit to another company for £300,000.

Whitham Mills, based at Todmorden on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border, will supply Green Plan-it with hardware it needs, including a specially designed bailer, at the company’s new £1.5m purpose-build materials recovery facility at Coalville in Leicestershire.

Green Plan-it  provides destruction of confidential materials and full waste management solutions to its nationwide customer base which are drawn from a range of sectors.

The new Whitham Mills designed system has a document shredding capacity of four tonnes per hour and consists of two Series 600 shredders and a GB 1108FX model fully automated baler, which has a seven tons per hour process capacity,connected by an 18.5 metre chain-driven conveyor.

Whitham Mills managing director, Ben Smart said: “Our systems are designed and manufactured right here in the UK by engineers who have dedicated their professional lives to solving problems faced by organisations with varied and challenging waste streams.
 
“We take great pride in our work and help our customers deliver on their promises to their customers. The system we have installed here is robust and in-keeping with the requirements of modern waste management companies.”