This week, glass recycling company Recresco announced that it had purchased the Ellesmere Port site, which it rented for more than 12 years. James Langley investigates what’s happening in Cheshire.
With many corporations affected by coronavirus pandemic paralysis, Recresco acted temporarily and decisively to advance plans to secure the company’s future.
The company bought the port of Ellesmere in which it has operated for 12 years and has made several significant investments in installation technology.
Recresco now has the site of Ellesmere Port, which has rented for 12 years
Recresco director Tim Gent told letsrecycle. com: “The acquisition of new plant equipment, as well as a number of other significant investments across the company, adding land acquisition at Ellesmere Port and the installation of new cybersecurity formula equipment, is a component of Recresco’s expansion strategy to maintain business and supply the highest quality products.
Recresco is firmly committed to the use of systems and technologies”
Tim Gent
“Recresco is firmly committed to the use of systems and technologies to ensure that our Ellesmere Port and Cwmbran warehouses are world-class.
The company announced today (September 14) that it has entered into a multi-million pound deal with Peel Ports to acquire the port of Ellesmere that the company leased. to expand your operations and open employment opportunities at CheshireArray
Recresco also recently completed the installation of a cybersecurity system, adding firewalls, secure site-to-site tunnels, server and terminal protection, Internet content and email filtering, and controls on all incoming and outgoing emails for possible attacks.
Founded through Tim’s father, Alan, in Norfolk in 1973, Recresco is now one of the most important names in the glass recycling industry. It claims to have been the first glass recycling company through color and the first to take glass from the fabric recycling facility (MRF).
Tim Gent is the director of British glass recycling company Recresco
The company is headquartered in Nottingham and operates another in Cwmbran, South Wales. The port of Ellesmere is the largest, with an area of approximately 12 acres. In the factory, most of the glass comes from MRF and the final product is sold to the bottle manufacturer Encirc.
Gent said: “We have occupied the port of Ellesmere since 2008 and believe that location and amenities are the ideal setting for our recycling activities.
“The site is preferably positioned to serve Recresco, being away from any accommodation with a forged infrastructure in position for our business, adding rail links, herbal fuel source and connection to the Greater Manchester Navigation Channel. This means that we can move the glass inside and outside the factory with minimal disruption for citizens and without relying on road transport that would overwhelm the network of local regional roads.
“By purchasing this land, we now have the opportunity to achieve our long-term expansion goals, expand our business, and take full advantage of the opportunities presented through this fair location in terms of location and shipping links. We remain fully committed to a sustainable long-term at Ellesmere Port and this acquisition serves to secure our position there.
The acquisition of the port of Ellesmere is just the latest announcement of what has been a busy time for the company. Just a few weeks ago, Recresco revealed that it had made a significant investment in glass sorting generation through commercial machinery specialist Sesotec.
Sesotec K9 sorting plant for advanced sorting of glass from combined street and HWRC collections
The K9 optical sorting formula provides advanced color classification capability, lower dust production and greater curtain capacity through greater efficiency, Sesotec says. The formula allows Recresco to color the glass fragments of the collections of sidewalk waste and family waste and recycling (HWRC), without any problems getting rid of foreign curtains, such as ceramics, stone and porcelain (CSP).
Gent said: “At Recresco, we try to make sure we supply the highest quality finishing product and are proud to invest in a world-class generation to achieve this goal.
“The Sesotec formula gives our company a more effective way to classify and reprocess glass in a position to be recast. In one position we have detected an accumulation of approximately 20 to 25% in the glass capacity that passes through our plant and significant relief powder in place thanks to the advanced dust extraction function.
The K9 optical classification formula was not to be Recresco’s last investment in the Ellesmere port facility. The company recently purchased 3 Zigzag Air Classifier (ZAC800) separation formulas from Impact Air Systems to enroll in the one it already owned.
“Recresco’s glass recycling sites are to say the least”
Dave Lansdell, Impact Air Systems
The ZAC800 eliminates contamination through fibers, dust and plastic from the glass jet. Infected curtains are taken to a sorting unit, a rotating curtain source valve, where it enters a cascading enclosure and falls through an upward airflow. Density causes lighter curtains to rise through the airflow, allowing heavier density curtains to be discharged from the bottom. A lighter curtain is then transported to a physically powerful transition segment to a segment of the curtain outlet hopper to unload some other rotating valve.
Recresco’s investment in another 3 ZAC800s underscores your satisfaction with your existing machine. Impact Air Systems, a global pneumatic systems company founded in Leicester, says Recresco’s first ZAC800 has benefited in a matter of months. Recresco chose corporate systems.
“Recresco’s glass recycling sites are impressive, to say the least, and we are pleased that they are getting the effects they want from our systems,” he said.
The investment point in times of global crisis suggests that Recresco was not unduly interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. This, Gent said to letsrecycle. com, is quite true right now, has some considerations about the future.
“So far, the pandemic has little affected the company”
Tim Gent
“So far, the pandemic has had little effect on the entire company,” he said. “However, it is difficult to fully appreciate the long-term consequences of the existing scenario at this early stage.
“In the UK, there has been a significant build-up of equipment, namely pavement collection, and the volume has been difficult to manage. There has also been significant relief in the demand for products on the European market, which we hope will do quite quickly. »
While Covid-19 restrictions are in place, Recresco is doing its best to meet all requirements.
Gent said: “In terms of social distance requirements, the arrangement of our deposits and the purposes accomplished through our staff means that maintaining a distance of two meters can be achieved smoothly. Like peak business, the uncertainty surrounding and the imposition of 40 14 days can also be a challenge for our workers, who would possibly be forced to isolate themselves at home after the holidays, but this has not been a challenge so far. “
One has an effect on the pandemic that the company has felt as a relief in PRN revenue. In recent months, the price of PRN glass has fallen, a progression Gent calls “surprising. “
He told letsrecycle. com: “We have noticed a relief in NRP’s income as a result of the pandemic. With a strange top point of glass PRNS, the price decreased and had a domino effect on the company’s revenue. However, we are waiting for that”. towards the end of this year. »
It is easy to see how much optimism has motivated investments at the Ellesmere port site. Reresco refuses to be intimidated by global tension and hopes that progress in recent months will bring stability in a context of widespread unrest.
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