Getting Crushed and Screened with SRM Carver & Son

Here on the Digger Man Blog we love to hear about up and coming businesses. This week I was delighted to hear from Rosie Carver who was keen to tell us a bit about their family based aggregate and recycling company SRM Carver & Son who are based in Shepton Mallet in Somerset.

Incredibly Rosie and her husband Sam started their then fledgling business while on their honeymoon in Salcombe, Devon some 4 years ago, after some pretty intense research and training.

Rosie takes up the story, “Sam has always been an incredible operator and I’m hopefully pretty good at selling him! 

We secured our first contract that enabled us to purchase our first impact crusher which we took straight up to the Peak District to help PD Edenhall recycle decades of under strength bricks.  We crushed down to 4mm - dust and they were then were able to reprocess the cement dust to make recycled bricks. 

Since then the contracts have grown and we’ve been visiting a few other companies to help them with similar projects”. 

Of course, this year has been a struggle for many businesses due to the global pandemic, so I asked Rosie what impact this has had on their company.

“During the Covid-19 outbreak we were unfortunately told that all of the sites we visit were closing down and as you can imagine we were pretty concerned.  

After a glass of wine on a Friday night I jokingly suggested selling some of our recycled aggregates and screened topsoil on Facebook and our website.  We didn’t expect it to take off but it really has done and we’re now delivering our recycled aggregates across the Southwest.  

The topsoil has been especially successful and we have gained a few fab contracts with sportsfields and turfing companies.  We run the soil through our incline screener, screening down to 10mm and creating a nice fluffy product”.

Its great to hear how companies are diversifying during these difficult times but Sam and Rosie appear to have found a niche market for their recycled products whilst still looking for larger recycling and remediation work going forward. I hope to be paying them a visit soon for a potential story in Earthmovers Magazine to see their operation first hand.