Booth Ventures choose Sandvik Mobile Crushers and Screens

27 February, 2014

First published in the February 2014 issue of Quarry Management as At The Fore

Waste-management company choose Sandvik equipment to help deliver ‘total solutions package’ for customers

As a reputable company with an emphasis on best practice and being fully compliant with government and regulatory agency standards, Bolton-based Booth Ventures are fast developing a reputation as one of the north-west region’s premier waste-management companies.

This reputation was recognized in 2012 when the company won an award at the British Ceramic Confederation’s annual awards, and now through its four operating divisions, and a reliance on Sandvik mobile screening and crushing equipment, the company is aiming to deliver a ‘total solutions package’ for their growing customer base.

Matthew Booth, managing director of Booth Ventures, makes no secret to the success of the company. ‘We place a strong emphasis on efficiency and we take great pride in providing a professional, cost-effective service from start to finish,’ he commented.

The high-quality service from Booth Ventures ensures that customers receive expert guidance on how to dispose of many different types of waste, and major advice on the relevant procedures, including the provision of chemical testing.

Mr Booth continued: ‘Staff on site have been trained to recognize the importance of a quick response to customer enquiries; for example, our review of chemical data prior to acceptance is usually completed within 24h.’

Booth Ventures operate four separate divisions: Waste Disposal; Site Regeneration; Aggregate Sales; and Consultancy. Each unit plays an important part in the business and when combined offers a synergy of operation that provides enhanced benefits to customers, locality and the environment.

Recycling and waste-management

An increasingly important part of the business for Booth Ventures is the supply of a range of both virgin and recycled aggregates to customers. Products include: top shale stone (0-50mm); 6F1 stone; 6F2 stone; and brick shale.

Recycled aggregates cover a broad spectrum ranging from 0-10mm to 0-40mm recycled and 6F2 recycled. Other aggregates include: a 0-4mm clean brick product; bulk fill material; rough walling stone; fine screened ash; and top soil.

All of these products are supplied from either the company’s Harwood Quarry (in Bolton) or Mouselow Quarry (in Glossop), and many have proved particularly suitable for engineering and site remediation purposes.

In order to process, size and supply the materials, a mobile crushing and screening solution was required. Following extensive research and evaluation, Booth Ventures selected an S5 screener (now QA340) and a QJ341 jaw crusher supplied by Sandvik Construction.

‘Equipment flexibility is essential for our business, so the crusher and screens’ ability to function effectively at a recycling centre or quarry is vitally important to us,’ said Mr Booth.

‘What stood out about the QJ341 is not only is the crusher highly productive, but it is also so flexible that one minute we can use it to crush virgin rock, and the next demolition rubble which is full of rebar, bricks and reusable concrete.’

The QJ341 is used in conjunction with the S5, a three-way split screener which uses Sandvik’s patented double-screenbox technology to deliver highly accurate sized materials at excellent rates of throughput. Booth Ventures have also acquired two new Sandvik QE341 mobile scalping screens. The QE341 model represents a major development of the QE340 screen, offering users a much more robust and refined unit with increased throughput.

Furthermore, the QE341 unit has been developed with easier set up, operation and maintenance in mind, as well as featuring a robust crusher-style chassis that has been designed to be compatible for two-way or three-way-split configurations, along with reversible side conveyors, to offer all-round flexibility.

One of the major upgrades to the QE341 is a new electrical control system, which incorporates a number of features to improve both the operational effectiveness and safety of the machine. The simple easy-to-use system has colour-coded numerical push buttons and a visual display unit, allowing the operator to fully monitor the process.

Pre-start warnings on all plant functions and an auto-start/stop facility are included, together with a three-mode selector function (set-up; operation; and tracking facility), to ensure operator safety and ease of operation.

According to Sandvik, these new features – which proved to be attractive to Booth Ventures – ensure the QE341 is as user-friendly and environmentally focused as it is productive, efficient and versatile.

Total solutions package

Booth Ventures are involved in a wide variety of remediation projects through their Site Regeneration division. These range from landfill restoration and clean up of contaminated land to land raising and reprofiling for construction.

The company also undertakes work to assist its customers in a wide range of asset-management roles (eg machinery decommissioning, demolition projects, site clearances, infrastructure maintenance etc.)

Another highly valued aspect of Booth Ventures’ business portfolio is their waste-management consultancy service. The company works in partnership with clients on a wide range of waste-management procedures and issues including: testing and characterization site investigation; risk/environmental assessments; geotechnical testing of aggregates; feasibility studies; and liability assessments.

Thanks to industry-leading equipment, Booth Ventures are able to provide customers with a total solutions package catering for virtually any requirement. The Sandvik crushing and screening machines are playing their part in dealing with whatever challenges come their way, turning what have traditionally been seen as throw-away materials into valuable products for reuse and resale, thus fitting the operating ethos of Booth Ventures.

For more information visit: www.constructionsandvik.com

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