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Mobile yardramps ideal for recycling
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January 2008
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With a rise in the amount of domestic and commercial waste being sent for recycling, Thorworld Industries reports a big increase in demand for its mobile yardramps from recycling companies. The applications could also be in factories increasing the recycling from their plant.
As well as supplying major recyclers such as Biffa Waste Services, SCA Recycling and Smurfit Recycling, the ramps have been bought by many smaller recycling businesses throughout the UK.
One of these customers is the family-run, independent waste paper recycler, Pearce Recycling Group, which has bought 15 tonne (15,000 kg) Thorworld Deluxe yardramps for its depots in Milton Keynes and St. Albans.
Forklift trucks drive up the ramps to load twin bales of paper weighing up to 2.5 tonnes into container trucks, which then deliver them to UK ports for shipping overseas.
With an overall length of 12.2m and a useable width of 2.25m, the ramps are solidly built using the latest solid beam technique, with a robust steel superstructure.
Their heights range from 890 to 1,680mm and they have a serrated open grid deck for positive traction in all weather conditions. A hand-operated hydraulic pump quickly raises them to the required height.
For added versatility they have a built-in tow bar, allowing them to be easily and speedily moved around by fork truck. This makes them the ideal ramps for use at sites where there are no loading bays or raised docks.
They are designed and tested to meet the latest European quality & safety standards & directives and bear the CE mark.
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Author
Chris Rowlands
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