Ling Industrial Services Buys New Shredder

North Yorkshire company Riverside Waste Machinery, a major national player in the provision of equipment to tackle industrial waste in an environmentally friendly manner, recently supplied a second tyre shredder to Ling Industrial Services, the Kent-based specialists in demolition and waste management which helps dispose of a “good proportion” of the 40-million waste tyres generated each year across the UK.

Ling has added a purpose-built UNTHA RS100-4 secondary tyre shredder to an S120-2 shredder from the same company, which it has been operating for three years. And the company’s founder and managing director Robin Ling is just as delighted with his new £250,000 purchase as he was with the initial one.

In fact it was the resounding success of the first UNTHA shredder which persuaded Mr Ling to return to Riverside when he wanted a second shredder.

He explains: “Like on the first occasion we went to the market place to see what the competition had to offer. There are cheaper shredders available but after being taken to see the RS100 at UNTHA’s Austrian base I knew straight away I was on to a winner.”

Ling Industrial Services, part of a group of companies launched in 1983 – just five years before Riverside Waste Machinery – has, in common with other tyre disposal companies, had to find ways of getting around a European ban on landfill site use.

So in came the first UNTHA to do the initial shredding job. The machine separates 99 per cent of the tyres’ metal content and leaves a residue of 20mm rubber chips ideal for use on projects like children’s playgrounds and horse exercise areas.

Mr Ling pinpoints strength and flexibility as two of the hallmarks of the UNTHA range, sentiments with which Mr Oldfield heartily agrees. “The RS100 represents a new generation of tyre shredding and metal separation equipment,” he says. “This will be good for the environment and help the Government to meet its recycling targets.”