Concrete plans for start-up business
A concrete crushing company in Shropshire has invested in a new piece of machinery from Scandinavia which it says is the first of its type in the country.
Neil Carter from Shrewsbury-based JTC Concrete Crushing believes his new screening bucket is the only one of its kind available in the country.
The business provides concrete recycling services across Shropshire, Mid Wales, the Midlands and Staffordshire, and has now bought the new bucket from Finland to separate soil from piles of rubble.
That improves the purity of the aggregate which is left after the rubble has been crushed.
The latest addition to the company takes the total investment Mr Carter has made in the start-up to £75,000, giving him two crushing machines, the screening bucket and a trailer.
"I'm expanding the service I can offer with this new bucket," said Mr Carter, a sole trader who is now hoping to grow his business.
"It comes from Finland and I believe it is the only one of this size in the country. I tend to work with small to medium sized businesses or individuals, so this size of equipment is ideal.
"If you have a pile of mixed soil and rubble, the bucket acts like a sieve to separate the two out. That then gives you two products you can use again on site.
"It can also be used in damp conditions, unlike some machines, so we don't need to worry about the British weather.
"It complements the other parts of our business and means we can recycle any demolition waste we have."
JTC Concrete Crushing's mobile crushing machines recycle concrete and brick rubble on site.
That helps the company's clients reduce their costs by saving money that would otherwise have to pay out on skip hire or new hard-core from a quarry.
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Mr Carter worked in the construction industry for more than 25 years before seeing a gap in the market for the concrete crushing business.
"What I do is create useful products out of inert waste because it is expensive to get rid of it," he said.
"It you have to have it taken away you have to pay landfill tax, and if you need to bring in aggregate you have to pay quarrying tax, all of which is expensive these days."
