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Cape approves of CompVAC’s compact capabilities December 2011

Looking for some additional waste and dust removal capacity at the Drax power station, Cape plc has found the compact CompVAC to be a very effective piece of industrial vacuum cleaning equipment. Cape’s Andy Hindson is responsible for the industrial cleaning service provided to the Drax power station, the largest, cleanest and most efficient coal-fired power station in the UK: “The CompVAC is smaller than the kind of cleaning equipment we’re used to using, but for its size and compactness it’s very impressive. It’s got enough power to do what we demand of it, and it proved very reliable as well.”

GrowHow‘s SkipVAC helps recycle tonnes of fertiliser everyday November 2011

GrowHow UK Limited, one of the UK’s premier fertiliser manufacturers and supplier of nitrogen products and process chemicals, has been using a SkipVAC for several years. Their manufacturing site produces 1 million tonnes of fertiliser a year. Mark Roberts is the GrowHow FMD Packing Day Supervisor: “The SkipVAC is a fast, efficient and safer way of dealing with the constant spillages. It’s helped us save time and money, recycle spillages more effectively, and more than meet all the safety, environmental and FIAS standards. For Growhow, buying a SkipVAC has been the perfect solution!”

Norfolk Environmental keeps cleaner with a SkipVAC October 2011

Norfolk Environmental Waste deals with all the domestic dry recyclable waste from Norfolk’s households, and operates a Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) that processes 65,000 tonnes of dry recyclable waste annually. Dust is a major challenge and when Manager David Lake heard about the SkipVAC, a demonstration soon proved it was precisely the solution they needed: “The SkipVAC is exactly what we were looking for, and it’s helped us achieve much higher standards of dust control, general housekeeping and dust-free working conditions.”

SkipVAC helps Brett Concrete improve preventive maintenance at Ridham. September 2011

Brett Concrete supplies ready-mixed concrete and floor screed to the construction industry. A recent demonstration at their Ridham Docks terminal has proved the Gotland SkipVAC is the ideal solution when it comes to dealing with granulated ground blast furnace slag, a recycled product sourced from blast furnaces in Germany. Terminal Supervisor Jed Stacey’s delighted: “We’ve all been very, very impressed by the SkipVAC’s performance. We’ve used smaller vacuum machines but they weren’t up to the job when it came to lumps of slag, or the volumes we need to pick up. We were using truck-mounted vacuum equipment, but the cost of a day’s hire compared with the hire cost of a SkipVAC shows the SkipVAC system is far more cost effective. We heard about the SkipVAC, put it to work and it was obvious to the fitters and myself that it was a much better solution.”

London Waste likes BagVAC’s flexibility August 2011

Based at the EcoPark in North London, London Waste is at the forefront of the new horizons when it comes to tackling waste management issues, generating enough energy from black bagged rubbish to power close to 70,000 homes, and turn organic waste from seven North London boroughs into rich compost. Manager Richard Bland summarised the BagVAC thus: “The BagVAC was a very useful additional asset, and it’ll be used by the team for some extra cleaning and waste removal capacity when we next have the annual outages.”

Gotland gets Harpers Home Mix cleaner July 2011

Harpers Home Mix, one of the largest animal feeds mills in the South West, must achieve the highest standards of cleanliness for UFAS, the regulatory body for animal feeds. Mill Manager Trevor Pearce and Asst. Manager Nigel Simpkins have to ensure the mill always passes the regular UFAS inspections: “…smaller machines were the wrong solution for our kind of environment. The SkipVAC’s much greater holding capacity and suction power makes it an immeasurably superior machine. We have to deal with around half a tonne a day of waste, dust and spillages and although the SkipVAC needs to be used constantly, our mill operatives only need to empty it twice a day on average. The net result is that our operatives’ efficiency is far higher.”