Fortress

Only three months since the official opening of Fortress Recycling and Resource Management’s new £5m facility in Warwick, the team had successfully processed 6250 tonnes of ‘waste’, thanks to an UNTHA XR3000C shredder at the front-end of a sophisticated processing line.

Fortress’ Dry Mixed Recyclables plant – designed and supplied by Blue Southern – hit the headlines when it was first unveiled. It was clear that significant investment and some clever thinking had brought this site to life.

Constructed in a building measuring just 730sqm and 6.5m high at the eaves, the facility had some challenging objectives to meet from the outset, if it was to effectively tackle the paper, cardboard, glass, plastics and aluminium cans passing through.

The Fortress team trialled the mobile version of the XR3000C when it embarked on its UK roadshow later that year, before placing an order in January 2017.

Currently configured to process 9 tonnes of DMR an hour, 10 hours per day, 5 days a week, the XR is in fact capable of achieving a 30 tph capacity, with the flexibility to shred different input materials ranging from MSW to C&I and other bulky wastes.