Oak-framed buildings specialist English Heritage Buildings has invested more than £50,000 in a new waste extraction system from Wood Waste Control (Engineering).
For more than 30 years, the company has been based in a factory at Woods Corner in East Sussex. From there, it provides bespoke oak-frame buildings, ranging from garages, garden rooms and home extensions to commercial projects such as offices, tearooms and wedding venues.
Customers are all across the UK – and even as far afield as Belgium – and the company has built a reputation for combining traditional English craftsmanship with modern construction techniques. English Heritage Buildings is the only oak-framed manufacturer to be awarded the prestigious BM TRADA Q-Mark, one of the most rigorous certification processes available for construction products, and used by world-class construction companies and manufacturers.
Its factory houses two large CNC machines and seven other items of woodworking machinery, but the company realised its productivity was being hampered by an outdated dust extraction system which was unable to keep up with the growing demands for greater production throughput.
English Heritage Buildings turned to Wood Waste Control to design, manufacture, install and commission a new dust extraction system. Wood Waste Control specified a model from its WFS modular silo filter range with a 45kW fan, mounted on a frame outside the workshop. All-new ducting connects machines to the filter, and the collected waste is then discharged through a rotary valve unit and fed via a transfer system to a large articulated trailer. The waste is used by a local farmer for animal bedding.
Gavin Everton, production manager at English Heritage Buildings, says: “The installation was very smooth and the new system works extremely well, with capacity for future expansion.
“The benefits of the new system are clear, with increased production efficiency and greater productivity. Rather than using only three or four machines at a time, we can now have the whole factory working flat-out from 7am-7pm. The factory building is much cleaner and there is a big cost benefit from not having to deal with regular extraction problems.”
Reg Gareppo, MD of Wood Waste Control, explains: “Our modular silo filters feature a flexible design, with many configuration possibilities to suit a wide range of applications, and the ability to easily extend the unit for future expansion.
“Some customers choose extraction to storage silos, closed containers, bagging units or briquetting presses. Others use the waste to heat their factories via one of our wood-fired heater systems.”
The WFS extraction units are certified according to the latest ATEX European Directive for explosive dust.
Wood Waste Control is one of the UK’s leading dust extraction and heating equipment specialists for the woodworking industry. The company is based in Bourne End near High Wycombe, and has hundreds of successful waste extraction, processing and heating equipment installations across the UK, Europe, Russia and Africa.
The family company manufactures its wide range of filters in the UK and supplies shredders, briquette presses, biomass heaters/boilers and quick-assemble and spiral ductwork to enable it to offer solutions from simple, standalone bagging units through to complex integrated systems.
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