by Kyle Molyneux | Thu 03 Nov 2022
Sponsored: Remu screening bucket slashes tipping costs
G F Gordon (Plant Hire) is based in Purfleet, Essex and provides aggregate and muck away services in London and Essex. The company currently has 30 tipper trucks. It typically gets 150 to 200 loads of screenable material a day coming into its yard and wanted to recycle more and send less to landfill.
Materials include muck away, asbestos and aggregates. 70% of the company’s business is in aggregates and 30% in muck away. The aggregates side of the business has grown due to an increased demand driven by HS2 construction. A lot of the firm’s business also comes from windfarms, charging stations and Amazon warehouses.
In July 2022, G F Gordon bought a second-hand Remu Screening Bucket – a 3150 with 40mm spacing. This helped it see a 30% reduction in sending material to landfill. Prior to purchasing the bucket, G F Gordon hadn’t heard of Remu, so contacted Worsley Plant to find out more information about the manufacturer. Matt, Worsley Plant’s Salesman for the south of the UK, set up a one-day trial with the equipment. After that, G F Gordon was hooked.
The company bought its second bucket, which came with 20mm spacing, later in the summer, and this has allowed it to screen soil to sell as a sub soil. A lot of the sub soil has stones in it so is good for drainage. It’s used as a base by clients and then topsoil is used on top. The concrete that G F Gordons separates from the soil is now tipped for free at a site next door.
The savings the company is making as a result of investing in the Remu buckets speaks for itself. It cost G F Gordon £150 to tip screenable material. With the Remu buckets, the company has reduced this by 50% so has saved £75 a load. It can process a 20-ton load in 20 minutes with the bucket. Also, the firm can now sell subsoil for £200 a load. G F Gordon also makes income from other people tipping here and processing their materials.
“The Remu buckets are great for the size of our yard. It’s one operator, one lot of diesel and we can hire it out too. It’s more economical than larger screening plant. It’s also easy to maintain – we just grease it three times a day,” said Alex, the Group Commercial Director. “We didn’t want to scrimp and save. We buy quality as we don’t believe in false economy. With the bucket allowing us to increase the material we can recycle, we predict it will pay for itself within a year.”
Established by Grant Gordon in 2000, G F Gordon has earned an enviable reputation for quality of service as a specialist company in a niche sector offering a range of services including enabling works, piling attendance, plant hire, and muck away.
