£1m investment in recycling plant creates 12 jobs

A South Yorkshire glass packaging manufacturer is investing £1m in expanding its on-site recycling plant installing new, more efficient equipment.

Beatson Clark partnered with REDWAVE to complete a turnkey plant expansion which began operation last month.

The recycling plant is expected to increase by an average of 50 per cent over the year, and the project has created 12 full-time jobs which were previously contracted.

As part of the investment Beatson Clark has installed additional optical sorters, vibratory feeder conveyors, new screening machines and a new JCB telehandler.

The new equipment and the additional inspection stages have reduced the false rejects of glass which were removed with the CSP (Ceramics, Stones and Pottery) by over 50 per cent, reportedly increasing the plant’s efficiency.

Patrick Pagdin, recycling plant manager at Beatson Clark, said: “The addition of new optical sorters makes the process more precise and reduces the amount of good glass which gets rejected by the machines and sent to waste thereby increasing the amount of quality cullet that can be used in the furnace.”

“We are now seeing an increased output of both white flint glass cullet and gramber (green and amber glass cullet) thanks to easier automated sorting and improvements in the colour sorting process.”

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