This year at the RWM2011 Show, MachTech Services will be showcasing their most impressive list of machinery to date.
A Jupiter 3200 Industrial Pre-Shredder weighing in at 39 tonnes will be exhibited in the outdoor area on stand no OA126, This shredder is currently operated in the UK by innovative waste management companies such as Mid UK Recycling and Wastecycle and is also present on the first Lindner Compact plant at Rugby based SRF producer Cwik Skips.
On the inside stand 1220 MachTech will be exhibiting the Lindner Komet 1800 SRF/RDF production machine which immediately after the show will be installed at the premises of Dow Waste Management in Cumbernauld, accompanying the Komest1800 will be the new generation Micromat2000 universal shredder, a machine with a long and distinguished pedigree within the Lindner portfolio which has benefited from a radical redesign for the modern recycling marketplace. The Micromat 2000 that will be shown will be installed at MachTech’s HQ in Lancashire after the show as a test and research installation allowing customers the opportunity to put this machine through its paces on a diverse range of materials.
Meanwhile on stand 1404 MachTech will be joined by Metal recycling machinery manufacturer ATM/Arno Equipment to showcase the range of balers, shears and briquetters etc.

Respected waste journalist Katie Coyne checked out our customer Cwik Skips,

here's a link to Katie's article

http://www.edie.net/library/view_article.asp?id=5976

MachTech Services Ltd are delighted to announce that a co-operation arrangement has been reached between the Lancashire based machinery sales and service company and the Austrian machinery manufacturer ATM Recyclingsystems Gmbh.

MachTech will look after ATM’S interests in the UK and Ireland following meetings at the manufacturers premises in Fohnsdorf Austria, beginning with the installation of two baling presses at the premises of BMW in Swindon.

ATM specialise in optimal metal recycling technologies and include the worldwide brand ‘ Arno-Technology’ within their product portfolio, with a history approaching a 100 years of engineering innovation with over 80 years of that in the field of metal processing. ATM produce high specification Briquetting Presses, Baling Presses, Breakers and Cutters for waste management companies, recycling companies and other companies in the metal industry.

MachTechs MD Joe Hoyle said about the co-operation agreement, ‘We have many years experience working with Lindner the market leaders in the shredding field and we see many of the same attributes of Lindner within ATM, the business ethics of the management to the pride in the quality of their work from the shop floor engineers, attitudes we share at MachTech’.

‘The quality of the ATM product range compliments our existing portfolio with no conflict of interests, ATM are not the first company to have contacted us in regards to entry into our portfolio but they are the first that have received universal approval from MachTech’s management team’.

Sales Manager Martin Davies believes the Arno-Technology machinery available from ATM dovetails perfectly into the MachTech portfolio as its core customer base is already served by MachTech. Martin stated ‘We have spent five years building a company that is at the very least the equal of any machinery supply company in the UK, to extend our product range is the next logical step, to extend it further into an industry that we are already well respected and visible in was also an easy decision to take, but!, to ensure we only supply machinery of the highest quality and reliability was and is the major driving force of MachTech Services, ATM fulfil this requirement’.
Further details on the ATM range can be found at www.atm-recyclingsystems.com or by contacting the offices of MachTech Services Ltd.

Littleborough based recycling machinery sales and service company Mach-Tech Services Ltd has been shortlisted for a honour at this years prestigious National Recycling Awards to be held in July at London’s Park Lane Hilton Hotel.

The organisers have had overwhelming response to this year’s awards, with a record number of entries in all catergories. Last year the awards brought together almost 600 professionals from a wide range of industries, demonstrating the importance of recycling and waste management achievements in all aspects of business.

The finalist’s had to demonstrate outstanding quality, innovation and best practice through their entries, proving the UK recycling and waste management industry is a dynamic and exciting place to be a part of. These annual awards continue to reward and support the efforts of local authorities and councils, as well as construction and retail sectors. The waste management community is fully recognised, rewarded and represented at the National Recycling Awards.

Mach-Tech who provide countrywide sales and service for the Lindner range of heavy duty industrial shredders operate from the Greenvale business park on Todmorden Road in Littleborough have been nominated in the ‘Plant and Equipment Supplier of the Year’ category.

Mach-Tech face stiff competition for the award from specialist vehicle supplier Dennis Eagle , Eriez Magnetics Europe ,Swedish company Gotland and shredder manufacturer Meltog Ltd of Leeds.

MachTech Services Ltd the UK's leading supplier of RDF secondary shredding equipment and sole suppliers of Lindner Recyclingtech machinery to the UK and Eire market will be exhibiting at the forthcoming Energy from Biomass and Waste Show at the Royal Horticultural Halls & Conference Centre in London on the 25th/26th January.

From a plateful of ripe tomatoes to stabilising clay-based soils, shredded recycled carpet continues to lay down some interesting recycled applications. This is all thanks to co-operation between The University of Bolton’s Institute for Materials Research and Innovation, Carpet Recycling UK and shredding technology specialists Mach Tech Services.
The institute’s Associate Professor Dr. Mohsen Miraftab has been leading two research projects, one which is looking at producing a soil amendment using wool-rich carpet, and another which aims to improve soil stabilisation in areas which have problems because of clay-based soils using recycled mixed synthetic carpet.
One of Dr. Miraftab’s research students has been trying out recycled and granularised wool-rich carpets and mixing the shredded material with top soils to trial the growing of vegetables. Dr. Miraftab said, “With research funding from Capet Recycling UK and access to Lindner shredding technology at Mach Tech we have produced a range of granularised materials from wool-rich carpets and tested them in growing tomatoes and cabbages. It is too early in the investigation to predict the results, but given that wool is rich in nitrogen and sulphur, ingredients available in standard plant fertilisers, it is expected that the release of these elements would assist and enhance plant growth. Although the decomposition time required for wool may not be sufficient to demonstrate their effectiveness in the short period that these plants grow and bear fruits, judging by the thriving plants (see photos), wool may be weaving its magic.”
The second research project looking at reusing mixed synthetic carpet fibres in sub-standard soils or clays has shown interesting properties of enhanced compressibility and shear strength. Further work is currently in progress to quantify optimum fibre contents and mixing regimes for best results. The work is due to be completed by July 2011.
Using innovative shredding technology Mach Tech were asked by Carpet Recycling UK to run a range of tests using recycled wool-rich and synthetic carpets to break them down into a range of granular sizes. “The challenge was to produce a wide range of particle sizes in significant enough quantities for the research trials at the University of Bolton. We know that applications for recycled materials from natural and man-made fibre carpets are being rolled out all over the UK and have been delighted to support one of our local research centres and Carpet Recycling UK,” said David Ingham, from Mach Tech.
Trial shredding the used carpets Mach Tech used the Lindner range of Micromat shredders with different screens at 25mm, 50mm and 70mm and the Power Komet at 35mm. The small particles the tests produced make breakdown faster at the highest possible throughputs for natural carpets. The requirements for synthetic carpets were the same but the aim was to make the particles suitable for further processing.
Mach Tech have also pre-shreddded used carpets to make separation of fibres and other materials easier on the downstream equipment, and to be able to screen out any foreign objects that could potentially be added to the machinery.
The carpet reuse projects plus more projects from around the world considering the use of fibrous waste will be showcased at the upcoming Recycling Symposium to be held at University of Bolton on June 15 and 16 2011. For further information and to submit a paper to the event, visit http://www.bolton.ac.uk/IMRI/Symposium/Home.aspx

The MachTech Services and Lindner Recyclingtech partnership continues to reach new heights at the Recycling and Waste Management (RWM) show with the exhibition of the Jupiter 2200 featuring the new internal ‘Rammer’ concept, the biggest shredding machine to go public in the UK.
As well as arranging the challenging logistics of exhibiting Lindner’s impressive 32,000kg, 5.2 metre wide and 4.9 metre high Jupiter 2200 heavy duty, single shaft shredder at RWM 2010 Mach Tech are celebrating signing a new five year rolling contract with Lindner as their sole agents for the UK and Ireland.
The Jupiter is already being used in the pre-shredding process for commercial and industrial waste by Lincolnshire-based Mid UK and Chorley-based Fairport Engineering. Cemex, Lafarge, Holcim and Remondis are just a few of the multi-nationals that employ the Jupiter in tough pre-shredding environments.
Lindner’s managing director, Manuel Lindner, explained why the Jupiter presence in the UK will become more and more significant, “At the moment there is a similar situation in the British market comparable to the past situation in Germany where customers started to put faith in a reliable and proven cutting system in the pre-shredding process. They did this to save on process and labour costs and finally to get a better, more competitive product. Mid UK is the first customer in UK to buy and apply the Lindner Jupiter pre-shredding system for these very reasons.”
Commenting on the commitment to RWM and new contract with Lindner, MachTech’s Joe Hoyle, said, “Despite the tough economic climate supporting the RWM Show is very important to us and to the UK market in general. Lindner and MachTech have a reputation for showing large industrial shredding machinery indoors at Birmingham and this year, to underline the point, we have our largest ever exhibit.
“We are delighted to have cemented our partnership with Lindner for the future with a new five year rolling contract on the back of achieving the milestone of our 25th UK sale and installation of Lindner technology in RDF production.”

Having proven technology certainly save time and money, but it can also cut through the challenges of processing large quantities of mixed waste. New Earth Solutions explain how they find the technology to continue to deliver sound technical and environmental solutions to the UK's waste problems.
Driven by the outcomes of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, New Earth Solutions has developed a wide range of technologies and processes designed to recover value from waste and to mitigate its impact on the environment. They have brought together proven technologies from across the world in a configuration specifically adapted for the UK waste sector, and amongst the ground-breaking technologies being utilised is the Lindner Power Komet 2800 shredder.
New Earth solutions chose Lindner shredders, through UK agents MachTech, because of their ability to demonstrate numerous applications and reference sites, both in the UK and Europe. What was very clear was the shredder’s ability to very effectively reduce the size of pre-shredded materials maintaining the anticipated reliability and throughputs. Lindner proved that they build quality machines that offer value for money and importantly they have guaranteed running costs.
As a secondary application, the shredder is also used to produce an RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) of 40mm shred size at a throughput of 10 tonnes per hour. The output is consistent, reliable and ideally prepared for use in New Earth’s own pyrolysis-based energy from waste plant which is co-located at the waste treatment facility.
The shredder technology is kept on the cutting edge with the support service from MachTech. As well as regular servicing MachTech provides fast response times when support is required. Andy Bland of New Earth Solutions selected the Lindner Power Komet: “We considered a number of different shredders and visited a variety of sites in Europe but only Lindner were able to show us numerous machines in full production on applications similar to our own. Our main equipment supplier, Turmec Engineering who accompanied us on our fact finding trips were equally impressed with the standard of engineering used in the construction of the Lindner Shredders. The cost efficiencies that the Komet Series offers were clearly superior to all the information gathered from other suppliers. They have not failed to deliver.”

2010'S RWM Show at the NEC proved to be MachTech and Lindner's most succesful UK Show to date.

The largest shredder to be exhibited indoors at the RWM, The Lindner Jupiter 2200 was sold from a direct enquiry on the show.

MachTech would like to take the opportunity to thank the staff of RWM for another well organised show.

MachTech Services are pleased to advise customers and suppliers that we are now operational in our new premises at

Unit 4B Greenvale Business Park
Todmorden Road
Littleborough
Lancashire
OL15 9FG

Telephone 01706 838246

The success of the company during 2009 made the move to larger premises necessary, dedicated spare and wear part department, a new welding area and paint shop along with increased office space and workshop areas ensures that we can continue to offer the best response to any customer query, may that be Sales of new Lindner machinery, the refurbishment and sales of pre-owned equipment or Service, Repair or Maintenance work.

Last week, the MachTeam sales team journeyed to the Ensorga Expo in Koln, Germany to assist the Lindner team on the exhibition stand.

Lindner used the Show to promote the revoloutionary new 'RAMMER' pusher system in the 3200 Jupiter high volume pre-shredder. The Jupiter on the show had been specially painted by artists local to the manufacturers Austrian facility and was a real talking point of the Show.

Alongside the Jupiter, Lindner also exhibited the Power Komet2800 secondary shredder for RDF / SRF production, a UNIVERSO 2200 single shaft shredder as well as two of the Vega range of shredders specifically for recycling of plastics from subsiduary company Lindner ReSource.

A very busy stand was the reward for the effort put in by the Lindner organisation and its international partners from Germany, Poland, Mexico, Russia, Spain and of course the UK.

Lindner British and Irish liason Officer Marco Egger was also congratulated on his fantastic speech during the associated conference.

Lindner once again, trumped the opposition with its willingness to not rest on its laurels and to push forward its concepts and ideas through continous R&D and innovation.

LindnerArt- The Art of Innovative Shredding

Another year another succesful show for the team at MachTech Services.

This year's exhibit, a 29 tonne RDF / SRF secondary shredder, the Lindner Power Komet 2800, believed to be the largest indoor shredder exhibit yet shown at RWM, earned rave reviews from visitors and exhibitors alike.

The Power Komet 2800 capable of producing in excess of 10 tonnes per hour of RDF / SRF is the result of over a decades research and development by Lindner Recyclingtech. Operational machines throughout the UK and Europe including cement companies such as Cemex and Holcim and progressive waste companies such as Premier Waste UK and Powerday prove the machines capabilities day after day.

Also exhibited by MachTech were a scale model of a 'Compact Plant' for RDF / SRF production and the cutting rotor from a Jupiter 3200 primary shredder as used by Mid UK Recycling, this pre-shredder range is capable of high volume throughputs and defined output particle of bulky wastes, MSW, Commercial and Industrial.

The Jupiter rotor, perceived by many to be a work of Art, is 3.2 metres long and has been fitted with wear protection.

MachTech Services Ltd and Lindner Recyclingtech would like to thank the staff at the NEC, the MRW and the RWM organisers for another fantastically organised show.

At this years RWM Show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, MachTech Services Ltd and their partners Lindner Recyclingtech Gmbh of Austria will showcase the Lindner Power Komet 2800 secondary shredder for high volume production of RDF / SRF. (Refuse Derived Fuel / Solid Recovered Fuel)

Whilst the Power Komet range of shredders is already operational at facilities including those of 100% recyclers Powerday PLC, Mid UK Recycling and Wastecycle for the production of -30mm RDF / SRF flock, the exhibition will enable prospective customers to have a very close look at the technological innovations and quality of engineering that has seen the Power Komet become multi award winning by the industry.

MachTech Services Ltd will be exhibiting on stand 1442 at the RWM and will be joined by representatives of Lindner Recyclingtech for the duration of the Show.

For more Show details please visit www.rwm.com

Lindner-Recyclingtech GmbH /MachTech Services Ltd
Press Information

Shredder manufacturer awarded once again for its innovations.
Lindner-Recyclingtech Gmbh picks up the Global Fuels Award 2009.

And the Award goes to... Lindner-Recyclingtech Gmbh at the "Global Fuels Conference & Exhibition“ in Toronto/Canada, the Austrian company represented in the UK by MachTech Services won the coveted first place in the category "Most Innovative Technology for Alternative Fuel Use".

Through innovative development and perfect solutions, Dipl.-Ing. Manuel Lindner and the team are once again world leaders within the industry. State-of-the-LindnerART – a philosophy and a promise, which the Carinthian Engineering company fulfills each day. At the "Global Fuels Conference & Exhibition", the Worlds best technologies in the following categories are awarded each year:

- Outstanding alternative fuel project (cement or lime company)
- Most innovative technology for alternative fuel use
- Outstanding electrical energy efficiency project (cement or lime company)
- Most innovative technology for electrical energy efficiency

Amongst the International competion, Lindner-Recyclingtech asserted its position with a comprehensive product range of recycling solutions. Lindner-Recyclingtech , which has numerous installations in well-known cement manufacturers, was honoured with this highly acclaimed industry award. A further milestone and, above all, a well-earned confirmation of its continued outstanding performance and achievement due to continual research and development.

BU: Lindner_Award_2009.jpg, © Paul Brown, free of charge reprinting:
Dipl.-Ing. Manuel Lindner, Managing Director of Lindner-Recyclingtech Limited at the presentation of the Global Fuels Award by Robert McCaffrey, Conference Convenor, PRo Publications (from right to left)
(Refuse Derived Fuel / Solid Recovered Fuel)

MachTech Services will be exhibiting at the forthcoming CIWM exhibition at the Excel centre in London on the 9th, 10th and 11th of June, The MachTech stand will be manned by members of the MachTeam team and Mr Marco Egger of Lindner Recyclingtech.

We look forward to meeting you there on stand KA45 to discuss your shredding requirements and to show why Lindner Recyclingtech machinery is the world leader in RDF shredding.

Following success in 2007, which saw Lindner take 3rd place in two categories with the "Heavy Fraction Separator HFS 1200", Lindner Recyclingtech GmbH were awarded a prestigious 2nd place at the "Carinthian Innovation and Research Award 2008" for their secondary shredder, the POWER KOMET.

Lindner Recyclingtech GmbH is one of the pioneers in the shredding technology for various waste materials. Apart from the development, the complete construction as well as the prototype and serial-production of the shredding machines takes place at Lindner. Many years of knowledge and numerous product innovations have resulted in the development of the new secondary waste shredder, the POWER KOMET - a machine which is used mainly within the RDF marketplace.

The new develpoment of the POWER KOMET has both economic and ecologic peak values, with the outstanding attribute being the exceptional drive system with centrifugal mass. Independent experts confirm that with this concept, which is rather uncommon in this industry so far, an energy saving of at least 20% can be achieved. In combination with the existing cutting system developed by Lindner, energy savings totalling 50% can be achieved compared to competition in this market area.

The principle of drive systems with centrifugal mass was discovered by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th Century. Lindner managed to harness this old technology into a technologically trend setting form for the efficient processing of waste. Besides the low energy consumption, the minimization of downtimes by maintenance works and the maximization of operation reliability, are essential for the operation of shredders. This can be achieved by two patent pending solutions: optimal accessibility to the cutting system and an extremely simplified maintenance by an elastic screen-clamping system. In shredding technology, the screens are used to classify the treated material in fractions of different sizes, and with the new clamping system these screens can easily and quickly be changed.

The POWER KOMET stands out by it's particularly dynamic design. The drive guards, which are made out of glass fibre reinforced plastics, are not only good looking but contribute also to an increase of security, a reduction of the operation noises and enable easier maintenance works by a simplified access to the drive unit.

The POWER KOMET was launched in May 2008 at IFAT (International Trade Fair for water, sewage, refuse and recycling) in Munich, Germany, and was extremely well received by customers. Mach Tech Services became the first agents to sell the POWER KOMET 2800 to progressive waste company, Wastecycle Ltd.

The RWM 2008 at Birminghams NEC was the most succesful yet for MachTech Services, with a confirmed sale of a Lindner Komet1800 on the very first day of the Expo, MachTech were joined on the Lindner stand by Mr Manuel Lindner and British liason Mr Marco Egger.
Many interested parties from some of the countries most innovative and forward thinking waste companies spent time on the stand admiring the Komet 1800 display and the Jupiter 3200 wear protected cutting shaft, the shaft was a real eye opener for many visitors and was one of the most talked about exhibits at this years show.
Now back in the office, the MachTech team would like to thank all the customers old, new and future for visiting and also the staff of RWM who pulled off a well organised and sucessful exhibition.
The Photograph shows the MachTech team with Mr Lindner and Mr Egger from Lindner Recyclingtech.

MachTech Services have expanded their service department yet again, Andreas Menzel, 6'2 Teutonic welder has joined the team at MachTech HQ in Rochdale, Andy originally from Germany has lived in the UK since 2000 and has a wealth of experience in mechanical engineering, hydraulic engineering and welding. A native German speaker, Andy is able to improve our communication with Lindner Recyclintech of Austria whilst also putting his years of experience from German technical school at our customers disposal. The picture shows Andy in action at Shanks Frog Island Waste Facility re-armouring the wear protection in a Lindner Komet 2200 RDF Shredder, producing -30mm RDF Flock.

The largest recycling expo in the World was the place to be be for the movers and shakers in the recycling industry, naturally MachTech helped man the Lindner Stand at the Munich IFAT.

Lindner used the exhibition to launch the Power Komet, a new concept based on the proven Komet range of machinery, these machines are used extensivley throughout the world for the production of RDF flock and whilst competitors launched machinery to target the RDF Industry, 10 years of R&D from Lindner has once again left them streets ahead of other manufacturers.

The new Power Komet offers substantial energy saving, excellent maintenance access and is, of course, backed up by MachTech in the UK.

RDF production is now much in demand in the UK and MachTech are currently working on a large number of projects to facilitate the production of RDF from MSW, Construction Industry Waste and other waste streams.

Lindner Press Release

At IFAT 08 Lindner-Recyclingtech GmbH introduced the POWER KOMET – the new generation in secondary shredding. The LINDNER centrifugal mass-drive system comes out on top – 20 to 50 % energy savings speaks for itself.

The intensified environmental awareness and the permanently increasing costs for energy are the main reasons why energy-efficient drive systems gain increasingly in importance also in shredding technology.

With the centrifugal mass-drive system Lindner-Recyclingtech GmbH succeeded in combining the highly efficient original Lindner shredding system with an energy saving drive system. Comprehensive endurance testing, carried out by independent institutions, confirm that the new Lindner drive system technology in the secondary shredder POWER KOMET has energy savings of 20 % compared to the Lindner KOMET. Comparing the Lindner KOMET to competitor's machines, which work with known drive systems such as gear drive, normal belt drive, direct drive e.g. the Torque drive, energy savings of more than 50 % were documented, based on the output. In comparison to machines with even more inefficient drive systems such as e.g. the hydraulic drive, the advantage is even greater.

For decades, Lindner-Recyclingtech GmbH has dealt with various drive systems for shredding tech-nology and the advantages of centrifugal mass drive systems have been used and implemented for many years. With the new countershaft drive in the POWER KOMET, the well known energy storage ability of revolving centrifugal mass is used.

Shredding machines don’t work with a constant power rating which is highly variable, as it depends on material input and cutting system. Because of the damping of those acyclic power requirements by the centrifugal mass drive system, there is a constant demand on electric energy and therefore enormous potential for energy savings. With this centrifugal mass drive system of Lindner-Recyclingtech GmbH peak demands can be reduced up to the five-fold nominal torque, whereas the electric energy is only used up to the two-fold nominal torque!

Besides the excellent value of low-energy consumption, the easy maintenance and the engine power of the LINDNER-drive systems must also be stated, as well as that the whole machine concept is fo-cused on easy, robust and efficient industry technology. First priority is always the highest possible availability through easy and fast maintenance possibilities as well as the worldwide availability of machine components (e.g. drive motor, belts, etc.). With the new secondary shredder POWER KOMET, the availability has been increased thanks to solutions which are patent pending.

Lindner-Recyclingtech GmbH can refer to more than 10 years of experience in the field of driveless high-torque belt drives with a torque of 70.000 Nm. In this period more than 300 driveless high torque belt drives were implemented.