Renfrew-based Green Oak Solutions, and their partners Caledonian Environment Centre based at Glasgow Caledonian University, have recently announced the launch of Return, a new web-based waste and recycling data collection tool.
Return is an integrated software solution that has been specifically designed to support local authorities in the management of their waste data, enabling waste managers to effectively measure collection and recycling details through a single web interface. This innovative new tool easily records waste data from all household, commercial and industrial schemes and contracts.
The software is versatile and offers a number of important benefits, including capturing invoice details and weighbridge return data and relating it to vehicle routes, recycling schemes and HWRC’s, as well as validating receipts and presenting recycling versus landfill data. These reports allow users to understand how routes perform and record the impact of recycling schemes on recycling performance.
Biodegradable waste content is tracked through the model to provide immediate information on landfill diversion performance. The application provides a number of different reporting outputs and also provides support for WasteDataFlow.
The Return software will be formally introduced at the forthcoming Futuresource show, 9-11 June, where Green Oak Solutions and Caledonian Environment Centre will be exhibiting on stand number C50 in the Purple Zone.
During Futuresource 2009, experienced team members of both Green Oak Solutions and Caledonian Environment Centre will be readily available to discuss Return and how the solution can help local authorities improve the accuracy and efficiency of data gathering for waste and recycling.
Green Oak Solutions are respected leading experts in the ongoing development of computer software products and services to support the environmental sector. They provide a range of products addressing operational and compliance challenges across a number of different areas, including waste management, recycling, carbon and water optimization.
Caledonian Environment Centre offers a varied range of environmental disciplines including waste management, sustainability, environmental management and education, and is rapidly becoming one of the most recognized environmental organizations in the UK providing an innovative service to the private, public, educational and community market sectors.
ITALY
Bigger Ecofars
Italian manufacturer Ecofar has started building waste collection bodies on the new, heavier duty Isuzu truck chassis, built for the European market.
The satellite bodies built on 7.5 tonnes gross-weight chassis obviously have a greater payload margin at 11 tonnes, but EcoFar now also has compaction collection bodies suitable for truck chassis in the 15–18 tonnes gross-weight sector; as well as the Ecomaxi articulated compaction trailer range that can be used either as a ‘mother ship’ to the satellite units, or in a stationary compactor role with auxiliary electric-powered hydraulics.
GERMANY
New Sennebogens
The family-owned German manufacturer Sennebogen introduced a new ‘demolition/Multi-functions’ machine at Intermat. The 830R-HDD is designed for extreme demolition and materials handling operations. With a work height of up to 17 metres, boom configurations are designed with heavy tool use applications.
Sennebogen has also started customer demonstrations of the new 310 Multi-Handler – the hydraulically-raised cab machine first shown in prototype form last September during the opening of the new manufacturing plant in Straubing, Bavaria.
SWEDEN
More Chassis Options
Volvo has announced new axle air suspension bogie options on FH and FM chassis, suitable for skip trucks, hooklifts and waste collection and transportation applications.
Martin Palming, chassis development product planning manager at Volvo, explains: ‘With the trend towards increasingly heavy loads, demands for greater efficiency and comfort are increasing. By expanding the range options, we are giving customers more options to find the optimum chassis solution.’
An example of this is the Tridem three axle rear bogie on rigid chassis. In Volvo’s case, this is a factory-fitted, three axle bogie with air suspension and a steered ‘tag’ axle, ‘with a wheelbase of 3.9 metres and a steered tag axle, the turning radius for a truck with a 32 tonne gross is no more than 7.8 metres.’
IRELAND
Centre of Excellence
Terex has set up what the company labels as a ‘centre for excellence’ for crushing and screening products.
In the past, as a result of acquisition policies, there was a certain amount of confusion as to the origins of some Terex Group products. That has now changed.
All Terex screening products (both Finlay and Powerscreen brands) are now centred on Dungannon, while all Pegson and Finlay crushing products will come out of the Omagh (also in Ireland) facility. Terex acquired all three brands in 1999.
ENGLAND
New JCB Plant Opens
CEO Matthew Taylor suggested that by opening a new manufacturing facility now while the construction market was in a downturn, JCB would ultimately benefit from greater efficiencies when the global market for hydraulic machinery picks up again. He was speaking at the official opening of the new 42,000 m2 Heavy Line production facility next to JCB’s World Parts Centre in Staffordshire, England.
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The new building – and the new machine tools for inside – amount to a €40 million investment. Matthew Taylor also suggested that as private or family-owned companies such as JCB ‘don’t have to rely on banks or institutional shareholders,’ they are in a far better position to invest in long-term projects.
The machines built in the new plant require 20% less labour input per machine, thanks to better production techniques, while a new paint process and the capability to keep the entire production process under one roof will enhance product quality and residual values, he added.
The new plant has a production capacity of up to 8000 machines a year. At the same time, JCB also announced an additional new model in the JS excavator range – the JS360 tracked machine. Powered by the same Tier-3 Isuzu as the JS330 and JS290 models, this 36 tonne machine has a choice of undercarriage and boom configurations, but the big news is that fuel consumption figures are claimed to be 40% less than any comparable machine. A full climate control cab allows for long shifts in tough conditions.
JCB is also expected to announce one – if not two – larger new JS-wheeled machines, with hydraulically-raised cabs, suitable for waste handling.
FRANCE
New Generation On-board Weigher
RDS Technology used the recent Intermat event to launch the new the Loadlog 500 on-board weighing system. The new range offers increased efficiency gains over other systems as a result of using the latest technology. Added software enhancements are designed to compensate for speed and directional changes, while the ‘Loadmaster i’ range has also been upgraded, and the 9000i introduced.
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